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The Libyan Coastal Highway (Arabic: الطريق الساحلي الليبي), formerly the Litoranea Balbo, is a highway that is the only major road that runs along the entire east-west length of the Libyan Mediterranean coastline.
Tobruk–Ajdabiya Road is an asphalt road linking Tobruk and Ajdabiya, in the Cyrenaica region of northeastern Libya. It is used primarily by travelers between Tripoli and Tobruk, or to Egypt. The road has shortened the distance between Tobruk and Ajdabiya to about 410 km (256 mi), from 610 km (388 mi) via the Libyan Coastal Highway (Via Balbia ...
This road has shortened the distance between Tobruk and Benghazi from some 470 kilometres (290 mi) along the Libyan Coastal Highway, to 450 kilometres (280 mi), and this route has become essential for traffic between the two cities.
Fezzan Road was constructed in the early 1960s. It was the largest road project in Libya since the Italian colonial Libyan Coastal Highway. It was probably the most important transportation project in Libya prior to the petroleum era. The importance of Fezzan Road was reduced after paving the Mizda–Brak Road in the 1980s. It reduced the full ...
The Libyan coastal town of Derna is one of the most severely hit cities by the floods that followed Storm Daniel, which formed on September 5, inundating parts of Greece before moving into the ...
This constitutes a substantial physical barrier between the north and south of Libya in the Tobruk area. Previously, Tobruk was some 470 km (290 mi) from Benghazi through the Libyan Coastal Highway, but this distance was shortened to 450 km (280 mi) after the construction of the Charruba–Timimi Road between the
Thousands of people were killed, with thousands more missing in devastating floods that hit Libya's Derna after Storm Daniel, fueled by civil war, corruption, climate change and neglect.
CAIRO (AP) — A Libyan coast guard boat rammed into a dingy carrying some 50 migrants just off Libya's coast on Friday, partially sinking the vessel. Many of those onboard were thrown into the ...