Two rival governments have been fighting for days over the central bank’s leadership, threatening a UN-brokered peace deal.
Libya’s internationally-unrecognised eastern-based government is shutting down oilfields in response to “attacks on the leadership and employees of the Central Bank of Libya”, its prime minister, Osama Hammad, says.
The “force majeure” applies to all fields, terminals and oil facilities, the eastern authorities said on Monday in a statement on Facebook.
While the eastern government in Benghazi lacks international legitimacy, most of Libya’s oilfields are under the control of eastern military leader Khalifa Haftar.
The Benghazi government did not specify for how long the oilfields could be closed.
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