LOS ANGELES – Alyssa Milano is a mom.

A publicist for the 38-year-old actress says Milano gave birth to a seven pound baby boy Wednesday morning: Milo Thomas Bugliari (BOOG’-lee-ar-ee).

This is the first child for Milano and her husband, David Bugliari, who wed in August 2009.

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The Libyan rebels at a checkpoint in the western suburb of Ghout al-Shaal are handing out fliers to passing drivers to wish them a Happy Eid al-Fitr, the celebration that marks the end of a month of fasting for Ramadan. “Thank God for making our holiday into two holidays,” the flier reads. “The Eid al-Fitr and the holiday of our victory over the injustice and oppression that the dictator [Muammar Gaddafi] and his cronies inflicted on us over the course of 42 years.” Much of Libya is celebrating this week, after rebels pushed into the capital nearly two weeks ago, ushering in a new era.

But several miles away, just off the same stretch of coastal road is a camp full of men, women, and children who have lost a lot and gained little from Gaddafi’s downfall. Hundreds of black African migrant workers have filled a small fishing port here, filtering in over recent months as they sought an escape from a country at war. Many were already refugees who had fled civil strife in Sudan or Somalia to find a better, safer life in a country that was once uniquely welcoming of sub-Saharan Africans. “Now I don’t have any place to go,” says Abdel Nasser Mohamed, who fled with his father from Sudan’s war-torn Darfur region at the age of five, after losing half his family to tribal clashes. (See “In Case of Loss [EM] Refugees Flee Libya.”)

Nearly 25 years later, Mohamed found himself on the run once again, as fighting engulfed the Libyan coastal city of Misrata where he grew up, and foreign Africans became figures of suspicion.

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