Liberated Libya finally on the move again - The National

Flying into Tripoli International Airport offers the traveller an aerial view of Libya's pressing challenges as well as its future potential.

First the plane flies over the Mediterranean coastline, scattered with sleepy ports ringed by the hulks of Libyan warships bombed during last year's Nato campaign.

As the aircraft descends, passengers peering below see a cluster of cranes and scaffolds encasing the shell of a new terminal taking shape at the edge of the airport.

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