LIBYA'S National Oil Corporation (NOC) triumphantly said on 10 July that it was lifting force majeure on oil exports, heralding a new phase in a ruinous civil war that has ravaged the leading North African energy exporter. It proved embarrassingly premature as the state player was forced to reimpose the blockade two days later in the face of opposition from renegade General Khalifa al Haftar. It was a loud message to the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA) that Haftar's self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA) called the shots in the eastern oil-producing regions.
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