Zuwayya
The Zuwayya (
.Traditionally practicing
Toubou
tribes. The Zuwayya tribe owns most of the date palm groves of the Kufra oases, employing the Toubou tribesmen as labourers.
The Zuwayya together with the
Wadai and Chad
.
The Zuwayya tribe took part in the
Libyan Civil War on the side of the opposition
.
The head of the tribe, Shaikh Faraj al Zuway, threatened to cut off Gaddafi government stopped the "suppression of protestors".[1]
References
- ^ Karam, Souhail (Feb 20, 2011). "Libya tribal chief threatens to block oil exports -Jazeera". London South East. Reuters. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
- Ali Abdullatif Ahmida, The making of modern Libya: state formation, colonization, and resistance, SUNY Press, 2009, ISBN 978-1-4384-2891-8, pp. 82–83.