Wednesday
Mar302011
Libya (and Beyond) LiveBlog: Rallying
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 at 23:57 | Ali Yenidunya in Africa, EA Global, EA Middle East and Turkey, Middle East and Iran
1930 GMT: Our live blog coverage ends here. We will be back tomorrow morning.
1920 GMT: Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann, a former foreign minister of Nicaragua, has been named by Qaddafi as Libya’s ambassador to the UN.
1900 GMT: CNN reports a rebel spokesman in Benghazi, Libya saying that fighters are executing a "tactical withdrawal" from territory they previously controlled. It is reported that rebels withdrew towards Brega, prepared to defend Ajdabiya. Other sources report that rebels are leaving their places in Ajdabiya to defend Benghazi!
tagged Bashar al-Assad, Libya, Mahmood Al-Yousif, Morocco, Syria, Taib Cherkaoui