The management of Mitiga International Airport in Tripoli, Libya has denied the speculations making rounds on various social media platforms, claiming that passengers and other personnel are being evacuated from the terminal.
A statement from Mitiga International Airport also dismissed reports that the facility management has ordered members of the airport staff to leave their jobs on summary dismissal.
The Mitiga Airport’s Managing Director Ibrahim Farkash, confirmed that normal operations at the air terminal are going on as usual and that workers, travellers and other personnel can be seen undertaking their ordinary procedures without any form of interruption.
Recently there have been reports of freshly rising tensions in Libya, to an extent that some people have started insinuating that the airport in the country’s capital city was grounding into closure, something which the authorities have so far explained to be untrue.
Meanwhile the Brigade 444, which is an armed faction aligned with the Western Region Government, has deployed units in the Al-Shuwayrif area, south of Bani Walid.
Backed with a series of drone surveillance, the units have been sent to Al-Shuwayrif area to prevent any advances into the precinct, by the Libyan Armed Forces under Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, along the ceasefire lines.
On the other hand, the Presidential Media Office in Tripoli has announced that the President of Libya, Mohammed Al-Menfi have been chairing an extended meeting attended by Prime Minister of Western region government, Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, along with several military and social leaders, to discuss ways of de-escalating tensions in the capital.
Sources from Libya reveal that President Al-Menfi and Prime Minister Dbeibah, have so far reached an understanding on a framework to ‘enhance peace and stability, as well as activating institutional work in Tripoli,’ in order to avert further wars in the North African Country.
The final agreement to that effect is currently being drafted in Tripoli and will be signed in the coming period.