CEOAFRICA gathered that Lybian Prime Minister Ali Zeidan whose abduction was reported earlier has been freed from the custody of gunmen.

He was abducted from a Tripoli hotel and held for several hours by armed men whose identity has yet to be confirmed.

The Prime Minister has in a cabinet meeting, thanked "real revolutionaries" who took part in a security operation to free him.

However, the motive of the abduction is still unclear but some militias is said to have been angered by a US commando raid to capture senior al-Qaeda suspect Anas al-Liby.