00:00Libya's central bank on Thursday said unidentified individuals raided its headquarters in Tripoli
00:06hours after parliament said it had accepted a request from its governor to resign.
00:11The incident comes more than two months after bank governor Najee Issa first announced his resignation,
00:18which the parliament rejected at the time.
00:20Beset by instability since the 2011 overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi,
00:25Libya is divided between a UN-recognized government in Tripoli and a rival administration in the east,
00:31backed by military commander Khalifa Haftar.
00:34Earlier this month, the new speaker took the helm of parliament,
00:37which sits in the eastern city of Benghazi under Haftar control.
00:41The central bank said the raid on his headquarter took place while Issa was away,
00:45adding that it held responsible for the incident.
00:48All parties that participated in this act,
00:51is singled out the defense ministry which is tasked with protecting the bank's headquarters
00:56without providing further details of its involvement.
00:59The government in Tripoli did not issue a comment on the reported raid.
