An armed force deployed outside the National Oil Corporation (NOC) headquarters in Tripoli late on Wednesday, three witnesses said, after the chairman Mustafa Sanalla gave a speech rejecting a government decision to sack him. In his speech earlier, Sanalla said Prime Minister Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah's mandate had expired and he did not have the authority to dismiss him as head of the state energy producer. (This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)