Mens regeringen mister kontrollen over centrale dele af Libyen og højtstående officerer og funktionærer undsiger Muammar Gaddafi, erklærer han, at ”kampen fortsætter”, skriver den arabiske nyhedstjeneste Al Jazeera onsdag.
Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, clings to power in the face of mass protests demanding his resignation, as parts of the country’s state structure appear to be disintegrating around him.
While he has insisted that the country is stable, international leaders have warned that the growing violence and increasing numbers of government and military renouncement of Gaddafi’s leadership indicate that the state structure is in critical danger.
Late on Tuesday night, General Abdul-Fatah Younis, the country’s interior minister, became the latest government official to stand down, saying that he was resigning to support what he termed as the “February 17 revolution”.
He urged the Libyan army to join the people and their “legitimate demands”.
A group of army officers has also issued a statement urging soldiers to “join the people” and remove Gaddafi from power.
On Wednesday, French energy giant Total said that it was suspending part of its operations in Libya. The announcement came after Italy’s Eni and Spain’s Repsol-YPF shut down operations in the country, and Royal Dutch Shell evacuated all personnel.
Oil prices have been pushed to two-and-a-half year highs, on the back of fears that instability in Libya will affect world supplies of the commodity.
