By Ashraf Abdul Wahab.
![A prayer for rain in Tripoli's Martyr's Square this morning](http://www.libyaherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/62709_181418382063816_1003047758_n-1.jpg)
Tripoli, 31 October 2013:
Hundreds of people gathered in town and city squares across the country this morning to . . .[restrict]pray for rain.
They were responding to a call from Awqaf – the Islamic Affairs committee of the General National Congress (GNC) – for people to get together and pray for rain at 10 am today. The request came in response to a particular lack of rain this year and an unseasonably hot October. [/restrict]