CAIRO (AP) – One of Libya’s two rival administrations has accused the country’s security agency of abducting a former finance minister, and a tribal leader said that the abduction prompted the shutdown of four southern oilfields. It said Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah – an ally of the security agency’s chief – is now responsible for Bumatari’s safety. In response to the abduction, Libya’s southern al-Zawi tribe – from which Bumatari hails – led the shutdown of four inland oil fields on Thursday, one of the group’s leaders, al-Senussi al-Zawi, told the AP. “Our main demand is the release of the minister,” the tribal leader said, who spoke on the phone from the eastern city of Benghazi on Friday. The three other sites purported to have stopped production are the El-Feel field, the Ibn Tufal field, and the 108 field, he said.

Source: Libya Today July 16, 2023 04:14 UTC