{"id":2909,"date":"2024-08-20T01:43:50","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T01:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=2909"},"modified":"2024-08-20T01:43:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T01:43:51","slug":"libyas-central-bank-shuts-down-temporarily-following-directors-abduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=2909","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Libya&#8217;s central bank shuts down temporarily following director&#8217;s abduction&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"153\" src=\"https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2024\/08\/66090758.295.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2910\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Libya&#8217;s central bank has announced the suspension of all its operations after a senior employee was kidnapped in the capital Tripoli.<br><br>The bank denounced the abduction of its information technology director Musab Msallem in a statement on Sunday.<br><br>They said Mr Msallem was taken from his home by an &#8220;unidentified party&#8221; on<br>Sunday morning and that other employees have been threatened with kidnapping.<br>The central bank says operations will not resume until Mr Msallem is released.<br><br>The central bank, which is independent but owned by the Libyan state, is the only internationally recognised depository for Libyan oil revenues &#8211; a vital economic income for a country torn for years between two rival governments in Tripoli and Benghazi.<br><br>It comes a week after the central bank suffered a siege by armed men, according to AFP news agency.<br><br>According to local media, cited by AFP, the armed men did so to force the resignation of the bank&#8217;s governor Seddik al-Kabir.<br><br>In office since 2012, Mr Kabir has faced criticism over the management of oil resources and the state budget.<br><br>Since the ousting and killing of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, the country has suffered from chronic insecurity.<br><br>The country has been divided by power struggles and currently has two governments &#8211; a UN-recognised one based in Tripoli, and another in the country&#8217;s east backed by warlord Gen Khalifa Haftar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Libya&#8217;s central bank has announced the suspension of all its operations after a senior employee was kidnapped in the capital Tripoli. The bank denounced the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2911,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909\/revisions\/2911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}