Feature: Al-Araby al-Jadeed investigated the case of the Morning Glory, the oil tanker that led to the fall from power of former Prime Minister Ali Zeidan.
Consumption has outstripped Libya's renewable water resources, and is eating into existing water reserves. The shortage of drinking water could become critical in the next few years.
Attacks by gunmen on oil fields have prompted the National Oil Corporation to shut down operations at 11 oil fields, raising the spectre of the collapse of the Libyan oil industry, on which the country’s economy depends.