On August 23, Libyan Interior Minister Imad Trabelsi announced that the country's government and armed groups had reached an agreement in Tripoli to protect important infrastructure.
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| The Central Bank of Libya (BCL) building. (Source: Reuters) |
The United Nations has previously expressed concern about recent fighting and the simmering crisis surrounding the country's central bank.
The North African nation of 6.8 million people is struggling to recover from years of conflict following the 2011 NATO-backed uprising that toppled dictator Moamer Kadhafi. The country remains divided between a UN-recognized government in the capital Tripoli led by Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah and a rival administration in the east led by military strongman Khalifa Haftar.
Within the government, the governor of the Central Bank of Libya since 2012, Seddik al-Kabir, has faced criticism from figures close to Prime Minister Dbeibah over his management of Libya's oil resources and the state budget.
The United Nations Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) on August 22 called on all parties to exercise restraint, expressing “deep concern about the mobilization of forces in Tripoli, including threats to use force to resolve the crisis surrounding the Central Bank of Libya”.
About two weeks ago, dozens of people, some armed, gathered outside the bank’s headquarters to demand Mr. Kabir’s resignation. On August 18, the bank’s head of information technology was briefly kidnapped by an unidentified group, forcing the financial institution to suspend operations until he was released.
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