Rush-hour traffic in Tripoli is ferocious; lavish subsidies make fuel cheaper than bottled water.Credit...Mahmud Turkia/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images TRIPOLI, Libya — Cracking open the giant church door, the Nigerian watchman cast a wary eye over the deserted street. It was Sunday morning in Tripoli’s old city, but only a trickle of worshipers was expected at the 19th-century Anglican church
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