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Libyan Militants Just Seized A Central Bank Branch With As Much As $100 Billion Inside

From businessinsider.com

Fighters loyal to a renegade general in Libya just seized a Central Bank facility in the coastal city of Benghazi that houses a reported $100 billion in cash and gold, according to the New York Times. Libya's ongoing civil war has split the country between an Islamist-supported central government based in Tripoli, and a rival nationalist administration held together by the renegade general Khalifa Hifter and based in the eastern city of Tobruk. But the country had a couple of remaining bright spots, including Africa's largest proven oil reserves, an oil industry positioned just across the Mediterranean Sea from ... (full story)

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