Tawergha

Returnees count cost of destruction in Libya’s Tawergha
  • 40,000 residents of Tawergha and its surroundings were banished because they were seen as supporting former dictator Muammar Qaddafi right up to his bloody 2011 demise
  • After being chased away by militia from the nearby city of Misrata, the displaced townsfolk were forbidden from returning home, until a reconciliation deal brokered in June