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As the Arab League meets in Cairo to debate whether it will back the imposition of a no-fly zone on Libya, Gaddafi's forces continue their advance into the east. The latest town to fall is Brega.
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A senior official at the Arab League told Al Jazeera's Ayman Mohyeldin that the Arab League will on Saturday be considering cutting off ties with the government of Muammar Gaddafi and acknowledge and recognise the National Council in Benghazi as the sole legitimate representative of the Libyan people.
This will still require a vote by the member States but it will be on the agenda for discussion along with endorsing a no-fly zone.
The Arab States are divided and there is no guarantee this will happen, but nonetheless, the proposal will be discussed.
(Because the Arab League could not physically impose a no-fly zone, so this would require foreign, non-military intervention to impose one. Yet the body has already issued a statement rejecting foreign intervention in Libya).
The Arab League at the end of the day may also issue a statement calling on Gaddafi to step down from power a step already taken by European countries and the US, Mohyeldin notes.
The leaders of South Africa, Uganda, Mauritania, Congo and Mali will form a panel that will travel to Libya shortly to help end the violence there, the African Union announced late on Friday.
"The ad hoc committee was set up ... to engage with all parties in Libya, facilitate in an inclusive dialogue among them, and engage AU partners ... for the speedy resolution of the crisis in Libya," the bloc said.
At a meeting of heads of state on Thursday, the head of the AU's Peace and Security Council, Ramtane Lamamra, said events in the north African country needed "urgent African action" to bring about an end to the hostilities.
The AU has rejected foreign military intervention in Libya, where forces loyal to leader Muammar Gaddafi are battling with rebels seeking to end his 42-year-old rule.
The UN secretary general has appointed a special envoy to Libya, Ban Ki Moon is resisting pressure to take sides in the conflict, this is what he had to say on the issue on whether or not the rebel Libyan national council in Benghazi should be recognised as the de facto government.
Al Jazeera's online producer Evan Hill tweets:
No fighting I know of in Benghazi, but sounds are strange and a bit worrying. Remember the Rajma ammo dump explosion. All is not well.AFP news agency reported that Abdurrahman Mohamed Shalgham, Libya's Ambassador to the United Nations while speaking at the National Press Club in Washington he proposed to replace the government of Moamer Kadhafi with the Transitional National Council of Libya.
More pictures coming in from AFP of today's fighting in eastern Libya. All taken in Ras Lanuf, the first image shows a rebel fighter reloading his weapon, the second a fire at an oil tank, and the third smoke rising from a bomb crater left by a Libyan air force fighter jet's bombardment.
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