Libya reopens airspace after two-week shutdown

Libyan authorities reopened the war-torn country’s skies for domestic flights on Tuesday, an aviation official said, two weeks after they were grounded amid a tense political standoff. “Air traffic resumes today and the domestic airspace is open between Mitiga (the main airport in the western capital Tripoli) and airports in eastern and southern Libya,” a source from Mitiga’s security directorate told AFP. Flights between Mitiga and other Libyan airports had been suspended since 7 March, after the country’s eastern-based parliament appointed a rival government in a challenge to unity premier A…

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