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Sabha
Sabha District, Libya · Africa
About Sabha
Sabha sits on the route: 1 hours from Samnū.
Sabha is in Sabha District, Libya, with about 150,000 people. The nearest town is Samnū, about 52 km away.
Sabha or Sebha (Arabic: سَبْهَا, romanized: Sabhā) is an oasis city in southwestern Libya, approximately 640 kilometres (400 mi) south of Tripoli. It was historically the capital of the Fezzan region and the Fezzan-Ghadames Military Territory and is the capital of the Sabha District. Sabha Air Base, south of theRead more
city, is a Libyan Air Force installation that is home to multiple MiG-25 aircraft.
Sabha was where the erstwhile ruler of Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, grew up and received secondary education and where he also later became involved in political activism. After the Libyan Civil War and the resultant instability in the country, Sabha reportedly grew in importance as a slave auctioning town. However, an investigation by the National Commission for Human Rights in Libya (NCHRL) revealed that while there was illegal slavery, reports were exaggerated, as slave auctions were rare and not made public. The city was seized by forces loyal to the Libyan National Army (LNA) and its leader Khalifa Haftar in January 2019, but some politicians in the area switched their loyalty to the Government of National Accord (GNA) in May 2020.
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Sabha is in Sabha District, Libya, about 52 km from Samnū.
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- Population
- 149,329
- Continent
- Africa
- Country
- Libya
- Region
- Sabha District
- Timezone
- Africa/Tripoli
- Coordinates
- 27.0377, 14.4283
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