{"id":5056,"date":"2014-08-31T10:13:10","date_gmt":"2014-08-31T03:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=5056"},"modified":"2014-08-31T10:13:28","modified_gmt":"2014-08-31T03:13:28","slug":"libya-prime-minister-abdullah-al-thinni-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/libya-prime-minister-abdullah-al-thinni-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Libya Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"

Abdullah al-Thinni has stepped down as Libya’s prime minister in a move to end the power struggle in the country.<\/p>\n

The cabinet said it was resigning to enable the elected parliament to choose a new, inclusive government.<\/p>\n

The Islamist-linked militia which seized the capital, Tripoli, last week has called for the elected MPs to be replaced by the previous body, the General National Congress (GNC).<\/p>\n

Libya has been hit by instability since the 2011 ousting of Muammar Gaddafi.<\/p>\n

The various armed groups which united against Libya’s long-time leader have refused to disarm, leaving the government unable to exert control.<\/p>\n

France’s President Francois Hollande on Thursday called for the UN to give “exceptional support” to Libya to prevent the country sliding further into chaos…<\/p>\n

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Abdullah al-Thinni has stepped down as Libya’s prime minister in a move to end the power struggle in the country. The cabinet said it was resigning to enable the elected parliament to choose a new, inclusive government. The Islamist-linked militia which seized the capital, Tripoli, last week has called for the elected MPs to be […]<\/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":[2569,258,256,3828,3829,3827,4711,892,3826,2687,257,4694,254,897,310],"class_list":["post-5056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-libya","tag-abdullah-al-thinni","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-general-national-congress","tag-gnc","tag-islamist-linked-militia","tag-libya","tag-libya-news","tag-libyas-prime-minister","tag-muammar-gaddafi","tag-news","tag-north-africa","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tripoli","tag-un"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5056","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=5056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5056\/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=5056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}