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Libyan rebel leader who led Gaddafi overthrow dies of COVID-19

Libyan rebel leader who led Gaddafi overthrow dies of COVID-19

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The former head of the rebel government that overthrew Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 Mahmud Jibril died on Sunday of the coronavirus, his party confirmed. Jibril, 68, was in Cairo where he had been hospitalised for two weeks, said Khaled al-Mrimi, secretary of the Alliance of National Forces party founded by Jibril in 2012. According to Hisham Wagdyn, the director of the Egyptian ho...

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