{"id":92509,"date":"2020-09-17T10:00:20","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T02:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=92509"},"modified":"2020-09-17T10:00:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T02:00:21","slug":"libya-east-based-government-resigns-after-benghazi-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=92509","title":{"rendered":"Libya: East-based government resigns after Benghazi protests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/Libya-s-eastern-government-resigns-after-Benghazi-protests-1060915?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/668\/66872212.295.jpg\" alt=\"The latest protests erupted on Saturday evening\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>The latest protests erupted on Saturday evening<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BENGHAZI (Libya), Sept 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The rival government in eastern Libya has submitted its resignation after a number of protests over deteriorating living conditions and corruption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the weekend demonstrators in the city of Benghazi set fire to strongman Gen Khalifa Haftar&#8217;s headquarters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They also clashed in his stronghold of Al-Maj for the first time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Libya has been torn by violence since long-time ruler Col Muammar Gaddafi was deposed and killed in 2011 by Nato-backed forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A spokesman for Gen Haftar said the administration backed peaceful protests but would not allow &#8220;terrorists and the Muslim Brotherhood&#8221; to hijack them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Until now, protests against the situation in Libya have focused largely on the capital, Tripoli, home to the UN-recognised Government of National Accord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gen Haftar&#8217;s forces launched an offensive to seize Tripoli in April 2019 but military support from Turkey helped government forces drive Gen Haftar&#8217;s Russian-backed troops back from the frontlines earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since January an armed group loyal to Gen Haftar has blocked key oil fields, causing power cuts and costing Libya billions of dollars in lost exports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was partially lifted last month to allow the sale of oil already stored in terminals, but not the production of fresh supplies. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest protests erupted on Saturday evening BENGHAZI (Libya), Sept 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The rival government in eastern Libya has submitted its resignation after a number of protests over deteriorating living conditions and corruption. At the weekend demonstrators in the city of Benghazi set fire to strongman Gen Khalifa Haftar&#8217;s headquarters. They also clashed in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":92511,"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\/92509"}],"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=92509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}