Libya's Prime Minister Ali Zaidan gestures during a news conference in Benghazi June 16, 2013. REUTERS/Esam Al-Fetori
TRIPOLI/TUNIS (Reuters) - Deep in Libya's southern Sahara, tribal sheikhs crowded into a Bedouin tent last month to declare their remote province bordering Algeria would break away from the government in far-off Tripoli.
A thousand miles to the east, armed protesters had seized ports disrupting oil shipments into the Mediterranean in support of local activists who appointed a de facto prime minister.
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