Nato aircraft destroyed the guard towers at Muammar Gaddafi’s compound in Tripoli, then staged a daytime strike on the city, a Nato official has said.
The South African and Austrian governments are doing all they can to find the body of slain photographer Anton Hammerl.
Libya’s PM says his government has asked the UN and AU to prepare and monitor a ceasefire, but ruled out the departure of strongman Muammar Gaddafi
Reports speculating that President Jacob Zuma will discuss an "exit strategy" with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi are misleading, the Presidency says.
President Jacob Zuma will visit Tripoli next week for talks with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
The military campaign in Libya had begun with what seemed a narrowly defined mission: to enforce a no-fly zone and protect civilians from attack.
France and Britain have added gunships to the force being brought to bear against Gaddafi, as Nato unleashed a bombing blitz on Libya’s capital.
Nato hammered Tripoli on Tuesday with some of their heaviest air strikes yet after the US said Muammar Gaddafi would be forced from power.
Tripoli’s anti-Gaddafi movement has been reduced to painting pigeons in rebel colours and tying balloons to cats.
The government will do everything in its power to repatriate the body of South African photojournalist Anton Hammerl.
Human Rights Watch and the Committee to Protect Journalists called on Libya on Friday to release the body of slain SA photographer Anton Hammerl.
Nato’s bombing campaign in Libya has crippled the government’s ability to attack rebels fighting to topple Muammar Gaddafi.
Nato said on Friday its warplanes hit eight vessels of Muammar Gaddafi’s navy.
Libyan officials lied about photographer Anton Hammerl to the SA government, international relations Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane said on Friday
South African photographer Anton Hammerl was shot in the Libyan desert and is believed to have died from his injuries.
The Democratic Alliance on Friday questioned the South African government’s role in communicating news about photographer Anton Hammerl.
South African Anton Hammerl was not among four journalists freed by Libya on Wednesday, and an official said his whereabouts were still unknown.
Pressure is piling on Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi after an apparent defection from his oil minister and a rebuke from Moscow.
A Libyan government spokesperson says four journalists detained have completed an administrative hearingand will be released on Tuesday or Wednesday.
A Gaddafi official says missing SA journalist Anton Hammerl has not been found, and a trial of detained journalists has been indefinitely delayed.
Pressure mounted on Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on Tuesday as Nato jets pounded his capital and his truce offer was snubbed.
SA photojournalist Anton Hammerl was not expected to be among four journalists the Libyan government intends putting on trial.
The Libyan regime dismissed on Monday a bid by the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor for a warrant to arrest Muammar Gaddafi.
The United Nations war-crimes court’s chief prosecutor applied on Monday for a warrant for Muammar Gaddafi’s arrest for crimes against humanity.
Muammar Gaddafi’s regime offered a truce in return for an immediate Nato ceasefire a day before the ICC considers arrest warrants for rights abuses.
Nato must broaden the range of targets it is bombing in Libya or risk failing to remove Muammar Gaddafi from power, a senior British officer said.
Mourners vowed revenge and rattled off heavy gunfire in a Tripoli cemetery as they buried nine men they said were Muslim clerics and medics .
Libyans prepared on Saturday to bury 11 imams killed in what Muammar Gaddafi’s regime said was a Nato air strike.
Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi admit holding British-based Anton Hammerl, but his wife and son have had no other news.
Gaddafi declared in an audio message on Friday he was beyond the reach of Nato bombs after a government denial of claims he was wounded.
Libyan ruler’s claim that al-Qaeda is at helm of country’s revolution does not appear to have much substance in Derna.
Nato bombed Gaddafi’s compound on Thursday, killing six people, just a short while after his first appearance on TV in two weeks.