LIBYA APPOINTS CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR AFTER WEEKS OF IMPASSE. (PHOTO).
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Libya has appointed a new governor for the central bank, under a UN-backed deal to resolve a dispute between the country's rival administrations that halved oil output, according to AFP.
Tensions and violence have risen since August around the central bank in oil-rich Libya, which is split between a United Nations-recognised government in the west and a rival power in the east.
The tensions prompted governor Seddik al-Kabir to flee the country.
After talks facilitated by the United Nations, the rival administrations on Thursday signed an agreement to name a new central bank governor.
Under that agreement 108 members of the parliament, based in Libya's east, voted unanimously to appoint Naji Issa as the new bank chief, with Miree al-Barasee as vice-governor, the parliament said in a statement.
It said the new leadership will name a board of directors within 10 days.
The other signatory to the deal is the High Council of State – which acts as a senate – based in the capital Tripoli, in the country's west, seat of the UN-recognised government led by Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah.
Libya is struggling to recover from years of conflict after the 2011 NATO-backed uprising that overthrew longtime ruler Muammar Gaddafi.
It remains split between Dbeibah's administration and the rival authority in the east backed by military ruler Khalifa Haftar.
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