{"id":120235,"date":"2021-04-26T14:31:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T06:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=120235"},"modified":"2021-04-26T14:31:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T06:31:21","slug":"libya-pm-trip-to-countrys-east-postponed-after-security-team-turned-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=120235","title":{"rendered":"Libya PM trip to country\u2019s east postponed after security team turned back"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/479-1.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/479-1-696x392.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BENGHAZI (Libya), April 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The Libyan government postponed the prime minister\u2019s first visit to the east of the country late Sunday, hours after an advance security team was turned back from Benghazi airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A cabinet meeting scheduled for Monday in the city would also have marked national unity government leader Abdulhamid Dbeibah\u2019s first trip to Libya\u2019s east, a bastion of military strongman Khalifa Hafter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But on Sunday a spokesperson said preparations were underway to arrange another date, without giving a reason for the postponement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The announcement came several hours after a government security team was turned away by local authorities at Benghazi airport, forcing them to get back on their plane and return to the capital Tripoli, a local security source said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dbeibah was selected earlier this year through a UN-backed inter-Libyan dialogue to lead the country to national elections in December 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Libya has been mired in chaos since dictator Moamer Kadhafi was deposed and killed in a 2011 NATO-backed uprising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dbeibah\u2019s government replaced two rival administrations based in Tripoli and the country\u2019s east, the latter loyal to Hafter, whose forces tried but failed to seize the capital in a 2019-20 offensive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rival authorities have given their backing to the new administration, adding to tentative hopes that Libya can exit a decade of crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dbeibah had previously announced his intention to hold cabinet meetings in different cities across the country, most notably in Benghazi, Libya\u2019s second city and one of Hafter\u2019s strongholds. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGHAZI (Libya), April 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The Libyan government postponed the prime minister\u2019s first visit to the east of the country late Sunday, hours after an advance security team was turned back from Benghazi airport. A cabinet meeting scheduled for Monday in the city would also have marked national unity government leader Abdulhamid Dbeibah\u2019s first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":120236,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120235"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/120236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}