TRIPOLI: Angry fans of a football club in Tripoli protesting a referee decision set fire to the facade and garden of the headquarters of Libya’s Government of National Unity (GNU), two eyewitnesses and a local TV channel said on Thursday. The violence flared in the capital on Thursday evening, after fans of Tripoli’s Al-Ittihad football club took to the streets to protest a referee’s decision to deny them a penalty kick in a match against Misrata’s Swehly club. The match was played in Tarhouna’s city stadium, around 65 km (40 miles) southeast of Tripoli.

Fans rioted after a disputed referee decision ended a Libyan league match in Tarhunah, with violence spreading to Tripoli where the Government of National Unity's headquarters was…

TRIPOLI: Angry fans of a football club in Tripoli protesting a referee decision set fire to the facade and garden of the headquarters of Libya’s Government of National Unity…