Where Have Libya's Children Gone? (click here)
BRQ NetworkOf 'growing public and government concern in Western Libya is the whereabouts of 53 female and 52 male children', who were 'part of a government-run home for orphans and abused children that until February was operating in Misrata, now under rebel control,' writes Franklin Lamb.
The quality of life continues to degrade in certain areas of western Libya while public anxiety noticeably rises over missing Libyan children as the first week of an unusually stressful Ramadan passes...
...Walking around the "medina" off Omar Muktar Street near my hotel yesterday afternoon, the angst over deteriorating conditions is apparent. Shops, like homes, are now subject to rolling blackouts and quickly become hot and stuffy, discouraging would be customers from entering. Some food stores have to discard milk and other perishable items given the up to 11 hour power cuts that send temperatures above 100F. One gentleman on Rashid Street in downtown Tripoli said his family had not had power for five days and the pump that supplies water to his apartment building stopped working so they lack two essential utilities....
Libyan rebels capture part of Brega, push north (click title to entry - thank you)
Published: Aug 12, 2011 12:54 Updated: Aug 12, 2011 12:54
SHALGHOUDA/BENGHAZI, Libya: Libyan rebels said they had captured part of the oil town of Brega on Thursday while their forces in the west pushed toward Zawiyah, trying to get within striking distance of Muammar Qaddafi’s capital.
Qaddafi is clinging to power despite a near five-month-old NATO air campaign, tightening economic sanctions, and a lengthening war with rebels trying to end his 41-year rule.
The rebels have seized large swathes of the North African state, but are deeply divided and lack experience, and Thursday’s gains in the east broke weeks of stalemate.
One rebel spokesman said the opposition had captured the residential districts of Brega but Qaddafi’s forces still hold western parts of the town where the oil facilities are located.
“It is liberated. It is under our control now,” spokesman Mossa Mahmoud Al-Mograbi said of the eastern part of the town.
The residential area where the fighting was taking place is about 15 km (9 miles) east of the oil terminal and sea port....
