By Ahmed Elumami.

Tripoli, 8, September, 2013:

Prime Minister Ali Zeidan has chosen a new Information minister, three months after the last minister resigned.

The new minister, who will need to be ratified by congress, is Mohamed Khalil Bin Saoud. His is the only name to be put forward for the job by Zeidan. He was born in Benghazi in 1957, and graduated from Historical Studies Department of Benghazi's Garyounis University. His CV says he was a political activist and fighter against the Qaddafi's regime from 1975.

In the CV which he will be submitting to members of congress, describing his vision for the media, Saoud writes  "Many believe that a free media, which does not follow the state, can say what they want. We make mistakes when we believe that the Western countries'  private media is free and irresponsible".
Information Committee member Mohamed Al-Tomi told the Libya Herald: “We are going to discuss his appointment as the new media minister at the sitting next Tuesday".  He added that the congress was too busy with other matters to discuss the appointment before then.

Last June the former Minister of Information Yousif Mohamed Al-Shareif resigned writing on his own FaceBook page that "my optimism was an illusion, and I did not know that the Al-Watanya Channel is governed by those who describe themselves as Thuwar.”