Fuqaha or El-Foqaha () is a spring-fed town in central
Libya
Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to Egypt–Libya border, the east, Sudan to Libya–Sudan border, the southeast, Chad to Chad–L ...
, 200 km by road south of
Sokna, on the western edge of the great central
Haruj volcano and lava field. It is an isolated
Berber
Berber or Berbers may refer to:
Ethnic group
* Berbers, an ethnic group native to Northern Africa
* Berber languages, a family of Afro-Asiatic languages
Places
* Berber, Sudan, a town on the Nile
People with the surname
* Ady Berber (1913–196 ...
-speaking locale, and it shares this identity with the oasis of
Sokna to its north.
Fuqaha was one of the last holdouts of loyalists in the
2011 Libyan civil war
The Libyan civil war, also known as the First Libyan Civil War and Libyan Revolution, was an armed conflict in 2011 in the North African country of Libya that was fought between forces loyal to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and rebel groups that were ...
.
{{Al Jufrah
Populated places in Jufra District