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Libyan oil firm chief denounces Tripoli’s move to replace him

Mustafa Sanalla was appointed head of the National Oil Corporation (NOC) by a previous Tripoli government in 2014 [File: Ismail Zitouny/Reuters]

Libya’s government in Tripoli said it had installed a new National Oil Corporation (NOC) chairman in the state producer’s headquarters amid a power struggle to control a company whose revenues are the source of all state funding.

The energy committee of Libya’s eastern-based parliament, however, said on Thursday that it rejected the move to sack the head of the NOC, Mustafa Sanalla, deepening a power struggle for control of the energy firm by competing power centres in Libya.

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