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- Demonstrators blocked streets and government facilities in Tripoli as opposition to extended outages and high electricity prices reached additional neighborhoods.
- Crowds obstructed Janzour’s coastal route, protested near the West Tripoli power plant and used burning tires to close roads, videos showed.
- In Zawiyat al-Dahmani, protesters placed a truck carrying dirt outside the Foreign Ministry, while Libyana offices were closed in Souq Al-Jumaa.
- The Souq Al-Jumaa Movement demanded accountability and the removal of Libya’s government and other major political institutions.
- Residents in Tajoura announced a boycott of public institutions, citing worsening electricity, water, education and health services, plus fuel, cash and medicine shortages.
- Tripoli-area electricity interruptions have lasted as long as 10 hours daily, and the state electricity company has resumed scheduled outages.
- White House adviser Massad Boulos said he discussed Libyan political unification and cooperation between eastern and western security forces with Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah.
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Massad Boulos said Sunday that his discussion with Abdul Hamid Dbeibah covered Libyan unification and security coordination between forces in the country’s east and west.
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