An employee of the state fuel distribution company, Brega, which is providing fuel from mobile trucks, fills a car in Tripoli, Libya August 5, 2019. REUTERS/Ismail Zitouny
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan state employee Akrm Jlaidi drives for ninety minutes to the suburbs of the capital Tripoli every week to fill his car at a mobile fuel station. Typically he waits for hours. Sometimes he returns home empty-handed as fuel shortages worsen.
Tripoli and parts of western Libya have been engulfed in war since forces loyal to the chief of the eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA) force, Khalifa Haftar, started a campaign to take the capital, held by an internationally recognised government.
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