Muammar Gaddafi’s firebrand daughter has said in an audio recording that her father is in high spirits and fighting alongside his supporters.
Libya’s National Transitional Council needs the buy-in of all citizens to succeed
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/ 23 September 2011
The new Libya is looking to Europe and not to the continent.
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/ 23 September 2011
Diplomatic contradictions in Côte d’Ivoire and Libya reveal a lack of inter-African coordination, writes <b>Francis Kornegay</b>.
Libya’s interim rulers said they had captured one of Muammar Gaddafi’s last strongholds in the Sahara desert, finding a stock of chemical weapons.
The government has decided to give the NTC in Libya the benefit of the doubt, saying it expects the interim government to include Gaddafi loyalists.
South Africa has joined the AU in recognising the National Transitional Council as Libya’s government, saying the NTC had addressed its main concerns.
South Africa was "open" to discuss Libya’s future in the United Nations, but insisted on African Union (AU) participation, President Jacob Zuma said.
Bickering that has delayed the formation of a new interim government in Libya suggests potentially damaging internal political rifts are widening.
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/ 19 September 2011
Colonel Gaddafi’s overthrow has highlighted the country’s Arab heritage and created divisions within the continent.
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/ 18 September 2011
Nearly a month after Muammar Gaddafi’s foes overran Tripoli, Libya’s interim council is unable to declare all of the nation "liberated".
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/ 17 September 2011
Hunter-in-chief Hisham Buhagiar likens the search to a game of chess but he believes Gaddafi will be caught within two weeks.
Despite South Africa’s call to postpone the decision, the UN has voted to award Libya’s UN seat to the rebel alliance that unseated Muammar Gaddafi.
Turkey’s prime minister heads to Libya on Friday, a day after the French and British leaders were welcomed for helping to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi.
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/ 15 September 2011
French and British leaders will visit Libya on Thursday to congratulate the new rulers they helped install.
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/ 14 September 2011
The AU is discussing ways to press for an inclusive government in Libya, with the region still refusing to recognise the new leadership in Tripoli.
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/ 14 September 2011
One of the novelties since the fall of Tripoli is free speech, and with it an early, and for some uncomfortable, dose of political bickering.
The accounts from residents fleeing Bani Walid build a portrait of a battlefield-in-waiting for an expected all-out assault.
South Africa has not recognised Libya’s new leaders, President Zuma has reiterated on the eve of an AU meeting, being held in SA, about the country.
South Africa will host a meeting of the AU’s committee on Libya on Wednesday, after weeks of refusing to recognise the interim government there.
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/ 13 September 2011
The interim council is struggling to assert its control over the entire country and capture a handful of stubbornly defended pro-Gaddafi towns.
A defiant Gaddafi has vowed to fight until victory as his forces launched surprise fightbacks, and China officially recognised the interim government.
Libya’s new rulers said on Sunday they were holding back an assault on one of the last bastions loyal to Muammar Gaddafi.
Much of Muammar Gaddafi’s inner circle has fled into Niger as NTC rebels continue their assault in Libya.
Fighters poured into the desert town of Bani Walid on Saturday as Nato aircraft struck at least seven times at Gaddafi loyalist positions.
Libya’s new rulers sent a column of fighters towards Bani Walid overnight, preparing a showdown with supporters of ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi.
The AU has denounced reports of racist attacks in Libya, urging the new rebel government there to disassociate itself from the violence.
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/ 7 September 2011
Documents showing plans for a 136-strong South African-led "rapid intervention force" being deployed in Libya have been leaked to the media.
The hunt for Muammar Gaddafi has widened across Africa after Libyan army convoys crossed hundreds of kilometres of desert into neighbouring Niger.
Libyan army vehicles have crossed into Niger in what may be a negotiated bid by Muammar Gaddafi to seek refuge in a friendly African state.
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/ 6 September 2011
A convoy of Libyan armoured vehicles as well as officers from Libya’s army arrived in Niger’s Agadez late on Monday, a French military source said.
An inquiry into alleged UK complicity in the mistreatment of suspects will probe new claims that spy agency MI6 was involved in rendition to Libya.