Nearly two years since the overthrow of the dictator Moammar Qaddafi, Libyans are still struggling to return to normal lives. A temporary national assembly just cleared the way for a new constitution to be drafted by the end of this year. Some of the rebel militia groups who banded together to oust Qaddafi have donned uniforms and become members of the police and army of the new government. Other rebel groups have maintained independence, clashing with those who seek unity under rule of law. The economy continues to suffer: Oil production is way down, and tourism has nearly evaporated. But foreign aid has increased, reconstruction in Benghazi has picked up, and Libya is bidding to host the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations soccer tournament.
A Libyan artist covers the wall of the compound of slain dictator Moammar Qaddafi with a large mural on December 9, 2012, in Tripoli.(Mahmud Turkia/AFP/Getty Images)
Libyan families cool off at the seaside with the onset of summer and high temperatures in the Libyan capital of Tripoli, on June 9, 2013.(Mahmud Turkia/AFP/Getty Images)
A fishing boat motors past the ruins of Cyrene, a colony of the Greeks of Thera (Santorini) and a principal city in the Hellenic world founded in 630 BC, located in Libya's Green Mountains or Jebel Akhdar, close to present-day Shahat, east of Benghazi, on May 26, 2013.(Abdullah Doma/AFP/Getty Images)
Former rebel fighters take part in a parade as they graduate as new recruits of Libya's police force in Tripoli, on February 28, 2013. More than 800 former rebels, the first group of recruits to finish their training after the 2011 war that ousted Moammar Qaddafi, graduated on Thursday. (Reuters/Ismail Zitouny)
Former Libyan foreign intelligence chief Bouzid Dorda leaves the court after a hearing in his trial on June 25, 2013 in Tripoli. The former foreign intelligence chief, the first of Moammar Qaddafi's top officials to face justice, is accused of ordering security forces to use live ammunition against demonstrators in 2011. (Mahmud Turkia/AFP/Getty Images)
A housekeeper show on January 30, 2013 the bombed out villa of late Libyan dictator Moammar Qaddafi near the airport of the northern Malian city of Timbuktu. The house was used by the Al Qaeda-linked Islamists who had seized the city 10 months ago. It was bombarded by French military planes on January 28 when French-led forces recaptured the city. (Eric Feferberg/AFP/Getty Images)
Cranes operate at the site of the football stadium in Benghazi, on January 19, 2013. Unlike the capital Tripoli, Benghazi, Libya's second-biggest city, has few modern high-rise developments. The development of many construction projects is being promoted as Benghazi bids to regain its former status as the country's business capital and end what local residents see as decades of marginalization.(Reuters/Esam Al-Fetori)
Youths from a refugee camp perform during a reception for Libyan National Congress President Mohammed Magarief at the Tawergha refugee camp in Benghazi, on April 13, 2013. Magarief made the visit to discuss the return of the refugees to their homes. The residents of Tawergha town, used as a base by Moammar Qaddafi during the country's 2011 uprising, fled their homes after the revolution, fearing persecution from the victorious rebels. (Reuters/Esam Al-Fetori)
A once-inhabitated apartment block, ridden with bullet holes, stands abandoned in the Libyan town of Tawergha, on February 21, 2013. Nearly two years later, the people of Tawergha are still stuck in limbo, homeless and, they say, abandoned by a country that has unfairly branded them as supporters of the fallen Qaddafi. They say they fear persecution, revenge attacks and arbitrary arrest if they return - the legacy of a war that has sharpened divisions in the oil-producing nation and raised fears of reprisals in other former Qaddafi bastions including Sirte and Bani Walid. (Reuters/Marie-Louise Gumuchian)
A group of men from former Soviet countries sit behind bars during an appeal hearing at Libya's Supreme Military Court in Tripoli, on May 29, 2013. A Libyan military court last year handed down long prison terms to the men accused of serving as mercenaries for ousted leader Moammar Qaddafi in the 2011 conflict. (Reuters/Ismail Zitouny)
A container of weapons collected by Abdul Basit Haroun, a prominent rebel commander during the 2011 uprising in Libya, from Benghazi residents and militias is being prepared for delivery to Syria at an undisclosed location in Benghazi, on May 26, 2013. Haroun says he is behind some of the biggest shipments of weapons from Libya to Syria, which he delivers on chartered flights to neighboring countries and then smuggles over the border. He says he sends aid and weapons to help Syrians achieve the freedom he fought for during the Libyan revolution. (Reuters/Stringer)
Residents walk on sand dunes in the Libyan desert oasis town of Ghadames, on April 19, 2013. Ghadames, a small town of around 11,000 people that lies on Libya's western border with Algeria, was a key destination for tourists who came to Libya before its Arab Spring uprising. But since the 2011 war that ousted Qaddafi, the flow of foreign holiday makers has ground to halt, as precarious security still taints Libya's image abroad. (Reuters/Ismail Zitouny)
Smoke billows from the windows of an Egyptian Coptic church in Benghazi, after gunmen attacked the religious site and started a fire on March 14, 2013. Since the 2011 revolution, Libya's small Christian minority has expressed fears over Islamic extremism, especially with the rise of armed militias enforcing their own law in the absence of central control. (AFP/Getty Images)
Coptic Egyptian, Sherif Ramsis, 45, during his interview with the Associated Press, speaks with his face partially concealed upon his request, with Christian books that were confiscated behind him, in Benghazi, on February 18 2013. Ramsis introduced himself as a businessman who frequently visits Libya and said that he wanted to spread Christianity in Libya in an interview with the Associated Press from his detention. He was speaking in front of security officials who detained him and who refused to let him speak alone to media. "Everything is God's hand," he said after saying "yes" when asked if the accusations are true. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon)
A view of a stadium under construction in the southern suburbs of the Libyan capital Tripoli, on March 20, 2013, which will be one of six stadiums players will use if the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations take place in Libya. Libya is pushing hard to host the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations, a chance to showcase the footballing prowess of its youth and mark a return to normal times in a country plagued by post-revolutionary unrest. (Mahmud Turkia/AFP/Getty Images)
A man tidies new graves of British and Italian soldiers who fought in World War II, in Benghazi Military Cemetery, on May 4, 2013. The graves, located at the cemetery built by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC), were replaced after they were vandalized by members of an Islamist group on February 24, 2012. (Reuters/Esam Al-Fetori)
Onlookers gather around the wreckage of a car, which exploded near members of a special forces unit, in Benghazi, on July 3, 2013. At least seven people were wounded when the car bomb exploded at a checkpoint manned by special military forces. Mohammed al-Hajazi, spokesman for the office that oversees security in Benghazi, said. (Reuters/Esam Al-Fetori)
Men pray over a grave at the funerals for those killed in earlier clashes at the Libya Shield brigade headquarters, in Benghazi, on June 9, 2013. Libya's army will take control of a militia's bases in the eastern city of Benghazi after clashes in which 31 people were killed, an army spokesman said. Fighting broke out at the headquarters of the Libya Shield brigade when protesters demanded the disbanding of the militias, whose continued existence nearly two years after the fall of Moammar Qaddafi is fueling public resentment.(Reuters/Esam Al-Fetori)
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