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African leaders are meeting in #Pretoria in a bid to draw up a peace proposal for #Libya. | Al Jazeera Blogs goo.gl/F51eD
South Africa's President Jacob Zuma has already made two trips to the country to try to negotiate an end to the conflict. But so far, he has failed African leaders are meeting in Pretoria in a bid to draw up a peace proposal for Libya. The presidents of Mali, Uganda, Mauritania and Congo-Brazzaville are attending the meeting. Peter Greste, reporting for Al Jazeera from Pretoria, said the main topic on the agenda is to adopt a series of political reforms to eliminate what they say are the causes of the clashes.
African Union: Gaddafi will not take part in talks to end the conflict in Libya. More soon...
Multiple rocket and heavy machine gunfire was heard from as far away as the hilltown of Yafren, some 15 km from the battleground, the correspondent said.Libyan rebels were locked in heavy exchanges with Muammar Gaddafi's forces Sunday in the plains below their enclave in the Nafusa Mountains, southwest of Tripoli. One rebel casualty from the fighting had already been brought to the town's hospital by mid-morning and an ambulance driver said more were awaiting evacuation from the front, reports AFP. Rebel commanders said the fighting centered on Bir al-Ghanam, just north of Bir Ayad, a strategic point on the road to Tripoli, 80 km to the northeast, which the rebels seized three weeks ago. Heartland of the Berber minority, the Nafusa Mountains are one of two rebel-held enclaves in western Libya, along with the country's third-largest city Misurata.
African Union: Gaddafi will not take part in talks to end the conflict in Libya. More soon...
Multiple rocket and heavy machine gunfire was heard from as far away as the hilltown of Yafren, some 15 km from the battleground, the correspondent said.Libyan rebels were locked in heavy exchanges with Muammar Gaddafi's forces Sunday in the plains below their enclave in the Nafusa Mountains, southwest of Tripoli. One rebel casualty from the fighting had already been brought to the town's hospital by mid-morning and an ambulance driver said more were awaiting evacuation from the front, reports AFP. Rebel commanders said the fighting centered on Bir al-Ghanam, just north of Bir Ayad, a strategic point on the road to Tripoli, 80 km to the northeast, which the rebels seized three weeks ago. Heartland of the Berber minority, the Nafusa Mountains are one of two rebel-held enclaves in western Libya, along with the country's third-largest city Misurata.
