{"id":178822,"date":"2024-08-19T09:51:06","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T07:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/libya-central-bank-halts-operations-over-employee-abduction\/"},"modified":"2024-08-19T09:51:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T07:51:06","slug":"libya-central-bank-halts-operations-over-employee-abduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/libya-central-bank-halts-operations-over-employee-abduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Libya Central Bank Halts Operations Over Employee Abduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\"><em><em>The Central Bank of Libya said that its head of information technology was kidnapped by an unidentified group and that other executives had been threatened. It comes a week after gunmen lay seige to the bank&#8217;s HQ.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The Central Bank of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/libya\/t-19016309\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Libya<\/a> on Sunday said it was suspending operations after one of its employees was abducted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The bank said that its head of informationa technology Musab Msallem &#8220;was kidnapped by an unidentified group from his house this morning&#8221; in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/tripoli\/t-40954321\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the capital, Tripoli<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/is-libya-on-the-brink-of-a-new-civil-war\/a-69963648\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Libya has seen&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408190044.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Libya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/libya\/\">Libya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Bank of Libya said that its head of information technology was kidnapped by an unidentified group and that other executives had been threatened. It comes a week after gunmen lay seige to the bank&#8217;s HQ. The Central Bank of Libya on Sunday said it was suspending operations after one of its employees was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":178823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[891],"tags":[4306,258,256,7089,5934,15185,16494,4711,892,257,6345,254],"class_list":["post-178822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-libya","tag-abduction","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bank","tag-central","tag-employee","tag-halts","tag-libya","tag-libya-news","tag-news","tag-operations","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}