Widespread discussions were being held between Tripoli and other countries to end the crisis in Libya but there were no full-scale negotiations.
The deaths of 15 civilians, including 3 children, were not Nato’s responsibility, it said, a day after admitting it had killed civilians in Tripoli.
Libyan rebels have captured two villages on the road to Tripoli, as Nato insisted it could complete its mission without putting troops on the ground.
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.
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.
South African Anton Hammerl was not among four journalists freed by Libya on Wednesday, and an official said his whereabouts were still unknown.
A Gaddafi official says missing SA journalist Anton Hammerl has not been found, and a trial of detained journalists has been indefinitely delayed.
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.
Nato bombed Gaddafi’s compound on Thursday, killing six people, just a short while after his first appearance on TV in two weeks.
A Nato bombing blitz rocked the Libyan capital on Tuesday, as rebels in besieged Misrata claimed to be pushing back the Libyan strongman’s forces.
Nato bombs wrecked Gaddafi’s office in his Tripoli residence, as rebels in Misrata said they had pushed loyalist forces out of the Libyan city.
Oscar-nominated war photographer and film director Tim Hetherington was killed on Wednesday in the besieged city of Misrata in Libya.
The AU and UN joined EU and Gulf states for the first time in calling for Gaddafi to step aside, as Nato bickered over how to support Libya’s rebels.
A South African photographer is among several journalists missing in Libya since April 4, according to Reporters Without Borders.
Libyan rebels pulled out of the oil town of Ras Lanuf on Wednesday under heavy bombardment from Muammar Gaddafi’s forces.
Interpol delivered a global alert against Gaddafi and 15 members of his inner circle to help police around the world enforce United Nations sanctions.
Eastern Libya was in full revolt on Thursday as veteran strongman Moammar Gadaffi made good his bloodcurdling vow to cling to power.
Gunfire broke out in Tripoli as forces loyal to Moammar Gadaffi opened fire after he called on supporters to crack down on anti-government protesters.
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/ 21 February 2011
Libya’s Moammar Gadaffi will fight a revolt to "the last man standing", one of his sons said on Monday after protests broke out in the capital.
Libya forces have killed dozens of protesters in the eastern city of Benghazi in the latest violence to threaten Moammar Gadaffi’s authority.
Africa squared up to fight for a better economic deal with the EU on Monday as Libya’s Moammar Gadaffi opened a summit in Tripoli.
Eleven people with ties to South Africa have so far been identified as among the victims of the Afriqiyah Airways crash in Tripoli.
Delegates from the 52 countries that make up the African Union gathered on Monday to address their continent’s crises during a one-day summit.
A bomb targeted a civilian bus in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli on Wednesday, killing at 16 people, including seven soldiers.
At least one person was killed and six injured on Saturday in a powerful blast that shook a residential building in the Lebanese city of Tripoli.
Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi has accused Europe of deliberately provoking the drowning of illegal African migrants as they try to reach Europe by sea, the official Jana news agency reported on Friday. ”Dozens [of migrants] die and hundreds drown or are drowned deliberately,” the official Libyan news agency quoted Gadaffi as saying.
Fierce battles raged in northern Lebanon on Sunday between rival clans as the Hezbollah-led opposition said it was ending its takeover of west Beirut. The opposition announced that it was ending its takeover of large swaths of west Beirut after the army revoked government moves against the Shi’ite group that sparked days of deadly fighting.
Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi accused a ”corrupt” government of failing to manage the country’s oil wealth and ordered it to hand out oil money directly to the country’s five million people. Western diplomats said the call, late on Wednesday, appeared aimed at putting pressure on the government to speed up reforms.
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/ 21 January 2008
Libya will make no exceptions in its drive to expel illegal immigrants and any recruitment of foreign labour in future must be done through legal channels, an official said on Sunday. The oil-rich North African country said on Wednesday it had started deporting illegal immigrants, a community of up to two million, mostly men from poor African states.
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/ 10 December 2007
Libya on Sunday awarded four gas-exploration contracts to fuel giants Shell, Gazprom, Sonatrach and Polski — the first ever given to foreign firms as relations warm between Tripoli and the West. Russia’s Gazprom was given three blocs with a total area of 3 936 square kilometres.