TRIPOLI (Reuters) - After a month strolling the gold market in Libya's capital, retired public servant Milud Farhat was unable to find any jewellery he could afford for his daughter's wedding.
The 60-year-old is typical of Libya's once well-to-do middle class, impoverished by high inflation and devaluation during years of conflict in what used to be one of the Arab world's wealthiest countries.
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