A passenger ferry set sail from the Libyan port of Misrata to Turkey’s Izmir province on the Aegean coast for the first time in 40 years on Wednesday.
Libya has not been serviced by any international ferries for 25 years.
Travel links with and within the country were severely disrupted by the 2011 revolt that overthrew longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi, and years of unrest which followed.
During Gadhafi’s rule, from 1969, the country was under sanctions and largely closed to tourists.
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