Mabrouka al-Twati, 80, a Libyan displaced woman, sits with her daughter Tabra al-Hamali in a school used as a shelter at Abu Slim district in Tripoli, Libya, September 4, 2019. REUTERS/Ismail Zitouny
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - After fleeing an advance by eastern-based forces on Tripoli, 80-year-old Mabrouka al-Twati and her daughter spent days sleeping rough in the Libyan capital. Now they are in a shelter where sheets cover broken windows and two desks serve as a kitchen.
As a military offensive on Tripoli by Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army (LNA) enters its sixth month, the two women are among an estimated 120,000 displaced by the latest escalation of violence in the oil-rich nation of six million.
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