Nato warplanes attacked Tripoli on Tuesday night after Libyan rebels pushed back forces loyal to leader Muammar Gaddafi on three fronts.
Another member of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s regime has defected and fled the country, two Libyan analysts in London said on Monday.
Libyan rebels have broken out toward Tripoli from Misrata, about 225km to the east, cracking a government siege as Gaddafi’s forces falter.
Hillary Clinton has urged African leaders to abandon Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi, saying it was time to live up to their pledges to promote democracy.
The controversial head of world chess said on Monday he had no qualms about playing Muammar Gaddafi in Tripoli while fighting raged across Libya.
From the east and west, working with Nato air strikes, resurgent rebels have battled Libyan government forces at flashpoints along the Mediterranean.
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Nato warplanes pummelled a town west of Libya’s capital, state media said soon after Western and Arab powers promised more than $1-billion to rebels.
Investigators have evidence that Muammar Gaddafi ordered mass rapes and bought containers of "Viagra-type" drugs to encourage troops to attack women.
Gaddafi’s forces have stormed the rebel-held city of Misrata, after the African Union said for the first time that the Libyan leader must step down.
Diplomats from the United Nations and from Spain on Wednesday joined a growing number of envoys beating a path to the Libyan rebel capital Benghazi.
Loud explosions rocked Tripoli early on Wednesday as Nato kept up its heaviest bombing of the the Libyan capital since air strikes began in March.
Journalists taken to see "bomb victim" in a hospital in Tripoli find out that the seven-month-old child was hurt in a road accident.
Growth in African countries will to slow to 3.7% this year owing to upheavals in northern Africa and increased food and fuel prices.
Nato warplanes battered Muammar Gaddafi’s command network in Tripoli, it said on Monday ahead of a visit to Libya by an envoy from Russia.
When the government announced that President Jacob Zuma was planning yet another trip to Libya, several questions immediately came to mind.
British and French attack helicopters struck inside Libya for the first time overnight on Saturday, hitting targets in the oil port of Brega.
Nato employed attack helicopters to hit targets in Libya for the first time on Saturday, an alliance statement said.
China made its first confirmed contact with Libyan rebels in the latest setback for Gaddafi, while France has been trying to persuade him to leave.
Three months into the fight against Muammar Gaddafi, the rebels complain they have yet to see a penny of the hundreds of millions of dollars on offer.
Westerners have been filmed in central Libya in the first apparent confirmation that Nato has sent military advisers to train anti-government forces.
Libya’s top oil official became the latest figure to desert Muammar Gaddafi on Wednesday, adding momentum to a revolt against the leader’s long rule.
Powerful explosions rocked Tripoli as Nato pressed its air war on Wednesday amid Libyan charges it has killed 718 civilians.
Muammar Gaddafi insists he will not leave his country, SA President Jacob Zuma said on Tuesday after he met the embattled Libyan ruler.
The Libyan government has agreed at "the highest level" to help South Africa search for the remains of slain photographer Anton Hammerl.
SA on Tuesday called for an immediate ceasefire in Libya, after President Jacob Zuma’s talks in Tripoli failed to advance a regional peace plan.
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Muammar Gaddafi is ready for a truce to stop the fighting in his country, SA President Jacob Zuma said on Monday after meeting the Libyan leader.
President Jacob Zuma has met Muammar Gaddafi for talks on ending the Libyan conflict, while Nato said Gaddafi’s "reign of terror" was nearing its end.
SA President Jacob Zuma will discuss photojournalist Anton Hammerl’s death during his visit to Tripoli for talks with Muammar Gaddafi.
The ANC has slammed the bombing of Libya, in a statement on the eve of a visit by President Jacob Zuma to Tripoli for talks with Muammar Gaddafi.
Britain is to add "bunker-busting" bombs to the arsenal its warplanes are using over Libya, a weapon it said would send message to Muammar Gaddafi.