AFP, TRIPOLI: Libya’s UN-backed unity government said on Friday that four of its ministers had been sacked just three months after it set up office in the capital Tripoli.
Their departure is a new setback in efforts to unify the North African country which has a rival administration in the east.
“The dismissed ministers were absent from their work and refused to take up their duties in the Government of National Unity... for over 30 days,” the GNA said in a statement on its website.
The justice, economy and industry, finance, and national reconciliation ministers—all easterners—were dismissed from their posts on Thursday, it added.
That is three months to the day since Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj, a businessman from Tripoli, sailed into the capital under naval escort.
The GNA, the result of UN-backed power-sharing agreement in December, took control of several ministries in April.