| 5,636,372 |
31.20892 |
16.58866 |
Libya |
|
A ceasefire agreement for Africa's Great Lakes region which provides for a peacekeeping force and the withdrawal of foreign troops, was signed at the end of a summit of Kadhafi, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) President Laurent Kabila, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and the heads of state of Chad and Eritrea, Idriss Deby and Issaias Afeworki |
| 5,636,376 |
32.11766 |
20.12928 |
Libya |
|
Two army colonels are shot and killed as they attended a wedding. Assassination has not been ruled out as a motive. |
| 5,636,382 |
32.11766 |
20.12928 |
Libya |
|
A Libyan detained in al-Kuweifia prison in Benghazi on July 21, 2000, on charges of using the Ahli Benghazi Football Club as a cover for their political group was subjected to three months of torture by internal security forces compelling him to confess. |
| 5,636,388 |
32.7571 |
12.72764 |
Libya |
|
Anti-foreigner violence took place in late September 2000 in Zawiyya, about forty kilometers west of Tripoli, where a mob of Libyans clashed with foreigners, resulting in what most media reports said was up to fifty foreigner deaths. The government said seven people died. The foreigners reportedly came mostly from Sudan, Nigeria, Ghana and Chad but included other sub-Saharan African states. |
| 5,636,391 |
32.86667 |
13.11667 |
Libya |
|
A crowd of Libyan youths reportedly ransacked the embassy of Niger. |
| 5,636,394 |
32.8925 |
13.18 |
Libya |
|
Young Libyan men ransacked the house on the outskirts of Tripoli where a witness to the Zawiyya violence was living with eight other men from his home country. Crowds smashed the taxi windshield with a stick on the way. |
| 5,636,397 |
32.8925 |
13.18 |
Libya |
|
5,000 Libyans marched at the UN office of Tripoli carrying anti-US banners in response to the conviction of a Libyan intelligence agent in the Lockerbie trial. One of the demonstrators stabbed himself in the stomach. It is unknown if he survived. Three o |
| 5,636,401 |
32.8925 |
13.18 |
Libya |
|
Libyan police beat and tear gassed angry demonstrators protesting the Lockerbie verdict trying to break into the British embassy. |
| 5,636,404 |
32.8925 |
13.18 |
Libya |
|
Thousands protest the ruling of the Lockerbie trial for the second time in four days, shouting anti-US slogans. |
| 5,636,407 |
32.8925 |
13.18 |
Libya |
|
Thousands of Libyans marched against a Scottish appeals court decision to uphold the conviction of a former Libyan intelligence agent in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing. |
