North Africa

Where is Qaddafi?

Rebels have overrun Moammar Qaddafi’s fortress-like compound in Tripoli, the Bab al-Aziziya, but the state TV station remains in pro-Qaddafi hands and continues to broadcast messages from the missing strongman.

North Africa

Who controls Tripoli?

Heavy fighting and NATO air-strikes continue in Tripoli, and two Qaddafi sons earlier reported as captured by rebels are now apparently free. China meanwhile expressed concerns that its oil investments in Libya will be honored by the new regime.

North Africa

Libya: rebels take Tripoli

In a land and sea offensive closely coordinated with NATO, Libyan rebels advanced into the heart of Tripoli. Thousands of jubilant citizens filled the Green Square to cheer their convoys of armed pick-up trucks, with fighters firing in the air.

North Africa

Qaddafi seeking way out of Libya: reports

Mounting reports indicate that Moammar Qaddafi has dispatched an envoy to Tunisia to meet with British and French officials and negotiate his exile from Libya. The reports come as rebels seized the strategic refinery city of Zawiya.

North Africa

Tear gas in Tunis as workers call for “new revolution”

Tunisian police fired tear-gas as a rally called by the General Workers’ Union (UGTT) was joined by some 2,000 protesting the lack of political reform since the overthrow of president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in January.

North Africa

Libya: NATO bombs civilian village?

The Tripoli regime accused NATO of killing 85 of civilians, including children, in an air attack on a village in western Libya. NATO responds that the regime was using farm buildings for military purposes, and said the casualties were likely “mercenaries.”

North Africa

Libya: NATO bombs TV station, kills Qaddafi’s son?

Organizations that monitor attacks on the media are demanding a UN investigation of a NATO air-strike on Tripoli’s TV station. The Tripoli regime meanwhile denies rebel claims that Qaddafi’s youngest son Khamis was killed in an air-strike.

North Africa

Libya: Qaddafi regime flips the script, will ally with jihadists

Saif Qaddafi, the dictator’s son, announced an alliance with Libya’s Islamists to defeat the rebels—after the regime had for months portrayed the rebels as Islamist extremists. Hugo Chávez hailed Qaddafi in a speech: “Live and be victorious. We’re with you.”

North Africa

Qaddafi facing endgame —and what comes next?

As a desperate Qaddafi threatens suicide attacks on European capitals, signs of a split emerge in the rebel National Transitional Council—raising fears of a widening of the civil war even after the dictator falls.