Protestors storm GNA Presidential Council in Libya

Protestors yesterday stormed the headquarters of the Presidential Council of Libya’s internationally-recognised Government of National Accord in the country’s capital of Tripoli, Anadolu Agency has reported.

The demonstrators were a group of employees who had worked for the foreign companies, which left the country during the revolution that toppled the regime of Libya’s former dictator Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. The protestors said they have not received their salaries for years.

The Middle East Monitor reports that “among the demonstrators, the agency noted, some with injuries demanding the dismissal of the Libyan Minister for the Affairs of Families of Martyrs and of Missing Persons, Naser Jibril. The Libyan authorities are yet to comment on the incident.

The chairman of the council, Fayez Al-Sarraj, was reported to have arrived in Jordan on Saturday. As Sarraj set foot in the Jordanian capital, the Libyan-government-led Special Deterrence Force (SDF) declared one of its members dead in an operation “conducted by rogue criminals.”

Meanwhile Al Arabiya reports that four Libyan oil export ports that were closed last week because of bad weather have reopened, a Libyan shipping source and port engineers said on Sunday.

Tankers were docking at the eastern Ras Lanuf, Es Sider, Zueitina and Brega ports as well as the western Zawiya terminal linked to the El Sharara field, they said.

On Friday state oil company NOC said bad weather had forced shutdowns at the Ras Lanuf, Es Sider, Zueitina and Zawiya terminals.