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March 31st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Libya’s interim government has announced that a ceasefire has been reached in a six-day conflict between two tribes that has taken over 150 lives in the southern city of Sabha. But its grasp over the country remains tenuous.
Premier Abdel Rahim al-Kib told reporters in the capital Tripoli that “calm now prevails in Sabha.”
Previous ceasefires had been announced throughout the week, but collapsed within hours each time, as deep-seated local tensions erupted into violence.
The conflict is Sabha is between the indigenous Arabic population and the Tubu, a tribe that stretches through Niger, Chad and Libya itself, but whose members are regarded as outsiders by many in the city.
Allegedly, a Tubu attempt to steal a car belonging to a Sabha militiaman provided the initial spark last Sunday, and the violence escalated as more and more families were dragged into a deadly blood feud.
In addition to the dead there are more than four hundred injured, overwhelming the local hospitals.
Libya disintegrating
Although Libya’s National Transitional Council nominally controls all of the country, in practice it has struggled to integrate the disparate tribal militias who fought Gaddafi into a single national force.
As a result, large parts of Libya have disintegrated into separate fiefdoms.
The Council has been accused of passivity, but it is not clear if it has the manpower to resolve a conflict in a city nearly 800 kilometers to the south of the capital.
Authorities in Tripoli say they have sent twenty cars of medical supplies, and evacuated around 200 wounded.
The Sabha conflict is not the first major outbreak of violence. Clashes in Al Kufra, also involving the Tubu, killed more than a hundred people last month.
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