Weapons out at Tripoli's rubbish-strewn pet market
22.05.12
There are signs in Libya that life is beginning to return to normal but serious problems remain. It isn't just warring factions and an over-abundance of guns the new leaders have to contend with. One symbol of the difficulties they face is the amount of rubbish still to be found on many streets, even in the capital Tripoli.
Libya is still in an early stage of its wobbly trajectory from dictatorship through revolutionary chaos to whatever comes next so they probably have not got round to appointing any animal welfare office just yet.
But when they do, there is a mountain of paperwork waiting for them at the pet market on the city ring-road near the old Gaddafi compound.
There are places where the phrase "mountain of paperwork" is just a figure of speech like "soul of discretion" or "hive of activity".
But in Tripoli there really are mountains of paperwork building up along the sides of some major roads where the householders of Libya's free capital city have
Source: Myjoyonline.com