Pretoria - Libya’s Prime Minister Ali Zeidan has been taken by gunmen from a hotel where he was staying in the capital Tripoli on Thursday morning.
In a notice on its website, the Libyan government says Zeidan of the transitional government was taken to an “unknown location for unknown reasons” by a group believed to be former rebels.
Two years after a revolution toppled Muammar Gaddafi, Libya's fragile central government has been struggling to contain rival tribal militias and Islamist militants, who control parts of the country.
Last weekend, the US military captured a top al Qaeda suspect in Tripoli in a raid that angered Islamist militant groups, including one blamed for the 2012 attack on the US consulate in Benghazi. - SAnews.gov.za-Xinhua
