May 4: Clashes Continue, Regionally and Locally

For over a year, Libya's rival governments have hosted separate branches of the country's National Oil Corp., with an internationally recognized headquarters in Tripoli and a competing branch based in Bayda. On May 4, the company's Bayda headquarters, which is loyal to Tobruk, blocked the Seachance, an oil tanker registered in Malta from loading oil at the Marsa al Hariga terminal near Tobruk. NOC-Bayda directed workers at the terminal not to load oil onto the ship, according to port officials. The order came just after NOC-Bayda's first attempt to export its oil was foiled. ...