MANDELA TO ADDRESS TRIPOLI RALLY

PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela will address a rally in Tripoli on Friday after meeting Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi about the Lockerbie case. His spokesperson Parks Mankahlana said on Thursday that Mandela has been given an exemption from the United Nations to fly directly to the Tripoli despite an air embargo. Mandela leaves Stockholm for Libya late on Thursday after visiting five northern European countries. He has played a key role aimed at achieving the handover of two Libyans suspected of the 1988 bombing a Pan Am airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland. Gadaffi has refused to hand over the suspects for trial in the United States or Britain but has agreed to a trial by Scottish judges in the Netherlands.