Originally Posted by
Asturias56
"Libya was by far the fastest growing economy in Africa"
I really don't think so - it was disfunctional lunatic asylum where no-one worked at all and the money was made by shipping oil and trousering the cash
The GNP stats show pretty decent growth and there were large scale civil infrastructure investments, so the country was moving forward, despite the flaws.
Now it is a mad Max situation, thanks to the NATO intervention.