ChChapter 2: Origins and influences of nationality law addressed through arrangements for the return and reinstatement of nationality for this group.78 Finally, in Libya under the former Gadaffi regime, policies of Arabisation and ethnic purification had a detrimental effect on all non-Arab minorities in the country. One group affected was the Tebu, a traditionally nomadic sub-Saharan tribe with long-standing ties to Libya who suffered discrimination, forced evictions and displacement since the 1970s.79 Their enjoyment of Libyan nationality became problematic with the passing of a Decree in 1996 that declared the ID-card holders of a particular area to be foreigners, mainly affecting the Tebu people. The current status of this population remains unclear.80 The second type of development, or perhaps rather event, that has had an impact the enjoyment of nationality in the MENA region is the transfer of sovereignty over territory and its knock-on effects for the populations concerned. Since the fall of the Ottoman empire and retreat of colonial powers from the region (as described earlier in this chapter), there 78 - See further chapter 3. 79 - Minority Rights Group International, Libya country information as updated August 2011, available at http://www.minorityrights.org/4171/libya/ libya-overview.html#current; Amnesty International, Urgent Action: Forced Eviction Libya, 31 March 2010; Summary of Stakeholders’ submissions to the Universal Periodic Review of Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, A/HRW/WG.6/9/LBY/3, 15 July 2010, available at http://lib.ohchr.org/HRBodies/UPR/Documents/Session9/ LY/A_HRC_WG.6_9_LBY_3_Libya.pdf. 80 - See chapter 3. 65