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#Libya's National Transitional Council have agreed with elders in Bani Walid for the peaceful handover of the town.feb17.info/news/live-liby…
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3:30pm: Representatives of Libya’s National Transitional Council agreed with elders from Bani Walid for the peaceful handover of the town to their control.
2:30pm: NATO is not tracking “fleeing former regime leaders” in Libya, an alliance spokesman said on Tuesday, after a Libyan military convoy with Muammar Gaddafi rumoured aboard crossed into Niger.Colonel Roland Lavoie, the NATO mission’s military spokesman, said:
To be clear, our mission is to protect the civilian population in Libya, not to track and target thousands of fleeing former regime leaders, mercenaries, military commanders and internally displaced people.
To be clear, our mission is to protect the civilian population in Libya, not to track and target thousands of fleeing former regime leaders, mercenaries, military commanders and internally displaced people.
2:00pm: A convoy of 10 vehicles that crossed into Niger was carrying money taken from a branch of the Central Bank of Libya, a spokesman for the ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) said on Tuesday. “They took the money from the central bank in Sirte,” Abdel Hafiz Ghoga, an NTC spokesman told Reuters in Benghazi.1:00pm: Libyan opposition fighters have reached an agreement with tribal leaders in Bani Walid to enter the town peacefully. They have also agreed with some tribes in Sirte, the Gaddafi hometown, to lay down arms.
12:00pm: China will recognise Libya’s National Transitional Council as the legitimate government “when conditions are ripe”, the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, without spelling out what those conditions would be.
10:00am: A Libyan fighter negotiator says tribal elders in a Muammar Gaddafi stronghold are trying to persuade loyalists there to lay down their arms, Associated Press news agency reported.
8:00am: Reports emerge of military vehicles arriving in town of Agadez as Gaddafi stronghold of Bani Walid braces for attack.6:00am: A large convoy of Libyan armored vehicles escorted by the Nigerien military arrived in the northern Niger desert town of Agadez late on Monday, a French military source and a Niger military source told Reuters. The convoy contained between 200 and 250 Libyan military vehicles and included officers from Libya’s southern army battalions, and likely crossed from Libya into Algeria before entering Niger, the sources said on condition of anonymity.