Sahara
Day 82: Benghazi
The skyline in Benghazi, Libya's second city, shows plenty of new and unmemorable modern buildings, very few mosques, and azure but choppy Mediterranean and a great mushrooming of satellite dishes.

The redirection of Gaddafi's foreign policy towards Saharan Africa should not perhaps be a surprise. He has always identified with the nomads and still prefers to live in a tent rather than a palace. There are few leaders these days who care much about the Sahara and I would very much have liked to have met and talked to him about his policy.
So far our advances have met with no success. The Libyan authorities remain deeply mistrustful of Western media and today we have to content ourselves with another closely guided tour.
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PALIN'S GUIDES
- Series: Sahara
- Day: 82
- Country/sea: Libya
- Place: Benghazi
- Book page no: 219
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