This was followed by the installation of a transitional council headed by American academic — and North Carolina State University alumni — Abdurrahim El-Keib. While the dust has settled from hundreds of tons of munitions, dust now rises in the expanding Sahara desert. A Saharan dust cloud weighing over 180 million tons, the largest since before the anti-imperialist revolution in Libya some five decades ago, has risen from North Africa. These decolonization efforts recall the historical state of the North Carolina Piedmont region as a bountiful network of forests and meadows. Now under the dense dust cloud rising from the Sahara, the state is a mess of industrialized agriculture, hog farms, meatpacking plants and other industrial sites liable to create another Sahara.

Source: Libya Today June 30, 2020 23:15 UTC