TRIPOLI - The latest news on Hillary Clinton's aiding and abetting the murder of Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi in 2011 confirms what many thinking Africans already suspected-a primary reason for killing Gaddafi and destabilizing Libya was to loot the nation's ample gold and silver reserves.

In the remote desert of western Egypt, near the Libyan border, lie clues to an ancient cosmic cataclysm. Libyan desert glass is the name given to fragments of canary-yellow glass found scattered over hundreds of kilometres, between giant shifting sand dunes. Interest in Libyan desert glass goes back more than 3,000 years.