OPINION: Renewed fighting in Libya has raised questions about the future of the country’s oil output, also helping push up global crude prices.
It will also send shivers through international companies that were about to start exploration programmes there.
This new upheaval arrives alongside turbulence in neighbouring Algeria and anti-government protests in Sudan.
Air strikes took place this week on Tripoli's only functioning airport as part of an offensive by opposition forces against the United Nation-backed government of Fayez al-Serraj.
