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A military force halted the municipal elections in the desert town of Zella, southwest Libya, on Saturday, the Central Committee for Municipal Council Elections (CCMCE) has said.

Fire is raging through farms in Zella, the oasis town’s Municipal Council member, Muftah Masoud has revealed.

A mass fire erupted in the Zella oasis, southwest of Libya, damaging a vast area of land planted with palm trees.

It is a Libyan town 750 km away from Tripoli, in the northeastern Fezzan region of southwest Libya. It is approximately halfway between Marada and Hun in the Jufra District.

Local media outlets attributed to sources from al-Jufra district that the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) had deployed its fighters in the town of Zella, northeast of F