Study abroad for 5,000 former revolutionaries

By Wagdy Sawahel. In an effort to reconstruct civil war-damaged Libya, 5,000 former rebels will be sent to study abroad this year, according to Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Mohamed Hassan Abu Bakr. They are the first of 18,000 revolutionaries who are registered and eligible for study abroad.
An agreement on the initiative was signed in the presence of the director of the Warriors Affairs Commission, or WAC, Mustafa Sagezli and Ahmed Al-Banouni, director of WAC’s board for foreign study programmes, according to the Libya Herald. More...