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Libya's Interior Minister Mohammed Khalifa al-Sheikh resigned Sunday over differences with the prime minister, said Al-Sharif al-Wafi, an official at the prime minister's office. Al-Sheikh, who has been in office for only three months, submitted his resignation in protest against what he said was "interference" in his work by the government and parliament, al-Wafi told Reuters.
Al-Sheikh said that he didn't have any understanding with Prime Minister Ali Zeidan and that he didn't have enough mandate to carry out his work, Wafi added.
He also complained that some members of the congress interfered in his work, Wafi said.
An aide to Zeidan confirmed that al-Sheikh had submitted his resignation but declined to give any details.
Al-Sheikh, a former Tripoli police colonel, took up his post in May after his predecessor Ashour Shuail resigned under pressure to deal with violence that has gripped Libya since Muammar Gaddafi's downfall in 2011.
Armed groups have further destabilized the oil-producing country, including the eastern city of Benghazi, the cradle of the anti-Gaddafi uprising.
A bomb blast ripped through the garden wall of the Egyptian consulate in Benghazi Saturday, injuring a security guard who needed hospital treatment, witnesses said.
US ambassador Christopher Stevens and three others were killed in Benghazi last year after gunmen attacked the consulate during protests over a film they said insulted the Prophet Mohammad.
Al Jazeera and wire services
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