IAEA reports missing uranium from Libyan site.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has reported that approximately 2.3 tonnes of natural uranium have gone missing from a site in Libya not under government control, posing a possible radiological risk and security concerns. The IAEA will conduct further activities to clarify the circumstances of the removal of the nuclear material and its current location. Libya renounced its nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programme in 2003, but since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, the country has been beset by political crises and competing militias forming opposing alliances backed by foreign powers.