According to the leaked decree, Sanalla will be replaced with Farhat Omar Bengdara, a former Central Bank Governor from 2007 to 2011. Interim prime minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, who signed the alleged decree, has been at loggerheads with the NOC leadership for some time. This is not the first attempt to remove Sanalla–who has led the NOC for eight years–and regain control of the national oil company in recent times. In the meantime, protests are engulfing Libya, some of them calling for the resignation of Dbeibah as interim prime minister. Now, with the political crisis taken directly to the NOC, there is renewed cause for concern of a civil war.

Source: Libya Today July 12, 2022 18:30 UTC