Benghazi security spokesman "has not resigned"

By Maha Ellawati.

Benghazi, 19 October 2013:

Rumours that the spokesman for the Benghazi Joint Operations Room, Abdullah Zeidi, had resigned are, like so many other rumours in Libya at present, not true.

They had surfaced on Facebook after he told a TV station yesterday that he would resign if he did not see any improvement in the country’s security situation. “But I did not say I had resigned,” Zeidi told the Libya Herald this morning.

With other officials, notably at Benghazi Local Council, unwilling to comment on or confirm events in the city, Zeidi has been a refreshing and invaluable aid to transparency in Benghazi recently.