{"id":3716,"date":"2014-07-07T10:13:21","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T03:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3716"},"modified":"2014-07-07T10:13:32","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T03:13:32","slug":"threats-of-fresh-west-tripoli-clashes-fail-to-materialise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/threats-of-fresh-west-tripoli-clashes-fail-to-materialise\/","title":{"rendered":"Threats of fresh west Tripoli clashes fail to materialise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tensions in Libya&#8217;s capital Tripoli following two nights of erratic clashes between a local Janzour brigade and a security unit manned by members of Zintan\u2019s Sawaq Brigade but under the command of the Interior Ministry threatened to escalate yesterday evening into a major standoff involving a number of revolutionary brigades on one side and Zintani units on the other.<\/p>\n<p>In the event, however, the spirit of Ramadan and the capital\u2019s ability to avoid trouble at the last minute appears to have prevented any serious outbreak of violence.<\/p>\n<p>During the day, the Zintanis evacuated the beachside Regatta Club in Siyahiya which they have held by ever since the liberation of Tripoli almost three years ago&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Libya News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.libyaherald.com\/2014\/07\/07\/threats-of-fresh-west-tripoli-clashes-fail-to-materialise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tensions in Libya&#8217;s capital Tripoli following two nights of erratic clashes between a local Janzour brigade and a security unit manned by members of Zintan\u2019s Sawaq Brigade but under the command of the Interior Ministry threatened to escalate yesterday evening into a major standoff involving a number of revolutionary brigades on one side and Zintani [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[891],"tags":[258,256,2261,2262,2267,4711,892,257,4694,2265,1907,2266,254,897,2263,2264],"class_list":["post-3716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-libya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-erratic-clashes","tag-janzour-brigade","tag-liberation-of-tripoli","tag-libya","tag-libya-news","tag-news","tag-north-africa","tag-outbreak-of-violence","tag-ramadan","tag-regatta-club-in-siyahiya","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tripoli","tag-zintans-sawaq-brigade","tag-zintani-units"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}