An Obfuscating Revolution: Has Libya Turned to a Beggar Nation Like Somalia?

The pretense that a leader is a dictator and must go is costing many nations their future today on the international scene. The real drummers for the galls called protesters and those willing to take up arms against the government lie underneath the sea. They are the ones who want nations, especially those in Africa to keep begging. Once a nation is not begging and not owing them like Libya, any available opportunity is usually turned against such a leader.

All humans deserve freedom, it is a natural craving and the mental thoughts are usually wired to demand for such but it must be done with the great interest of one's nation at heart not those who hide under the banner of being humanitarian or carrying the destiny of humanitarian intervention whom at best are roving lions looking for who to devour to revamp their economic meltdown. Libya has finally joined the rank and file of beggars like Somalia with almost to legitimate decorum.

RT reports that the Libyan prime minister is reaching out for international help amid political turmoil and stunted oil exportation which has cost the country $130 million a day. Ali Zeidan met with Britain’s David Cameron as Libya continues to be mired in post-Western intervention disarray following the ouster of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. The overthrow has not yielded a conciliatory political climate as many had hoped.

Violence, militias and political activists have cut off most of Libya’s oil fields and ports since July, overwhelming the government’s young army and police force. "If the international community does not help in the collection of arms and ammunition, if we don't get help in forming the army and the police, things are going to take very long," Zeidan said while speaking at a Libya investment conference in London. "The situation is not going to improve unless we get real and practical assistance."

Zeidan told Cameron he’d like to reduce the number of arms flowing through Libya, while peacefully reaching out to militia members in an effort to provide support. "We are going to work on solving this problem," he said. "When blood is shed, the loss will be greater.” Libyan officials said oil production has opened more in the west, but still remains stunted in the east.

The General National Congress has negotiated with an armed group to reopen the El Sharara oilfield. Disruptions in production have cost the country and partners $7.5bn, a board member at the National Oil Company said.

The renewal of El Sharara is expected to increase Libyan oil production to 400,000-450,000 barrels per day (bpd), Libya's deputy oil minister Omar Shakmak told Reuters. Nevertheless, major energy companies are reducing operations in Libya. ExxonMobil is cutting back its involvement in Libyan oil production, saying increased instability is not worth a large presence. Royal Dutch Shell has abandoned exploration on two Libya blocks, and Marathon is pondering the sale of its part in a major Libyan oil consortium, sources said in July.

Libya under Gaddafi was prosperous and had a reasonable standard of living, better than South Africa whom the west wants us to believe has always been better because they are in control there. There was peace and tranquility in Gaddafi's Libya. Many African migrants who once worked in that blessed country still cry today because it was more of a paradise on earth to them. Now, Libya is not the same again and might continue to degenerate if care is not taken.