Young Libyans finally able to answer call of egaming

Youths play at a video gaming centre in Libya's capital Tripoli. In an ultra-modern gaming space in Tripoli, players exchange banter amid the bleeping and music of video games. Isolated by decades of dictatorship and post-revolution chaos, Libyan gamers are finally ready to take on the world. — AFP

TRIPOLI: In a Tripoli arcade, players banter amid the bleeping and music of video games. Isolated by decades of dictatorship and post-revolution chaos, Libyan gamers are finally taking on the world.

It’s late at night in the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, and in the suburb of Tajoura, teenagers with headphones clamped to their ears gaze into state-of-the-art screens in the ultra-modern gaming complex.