BBC News with Iain Purdon
The American-based group Human Rights Watch says it's found documents in Libya that show how Western intelligence agencies cooperated closely with Colonel Gaddafi's government over terrorism in the years after the 9/11 attacks on the United States. The group says some documents appear to show that British and American intelligence shared information with Libya's former spy chief Moussa Koussa. Peter Bouckaert from Human Rights Watch says that Gaddafi's regime was able to offer
plenty of
intelligence.
"Libya was a police state for 42 years. They listened to every phone call, every conversation; they had all of their informants. So that
require
s a
tremendous
amount of archives, and that's why the CIA and MI6 were so
keen to
build this relationship with Moussa Koussa because Gaddafi was sponsoring rebel movements all across Africa and listening to anybody in Libya."
An opposition movement in Sudan has called on the United Nations to establish a no-fly zone just north of the new border with South Sudan. The call came from the secretary general of SPLM-North, who accused government troops of
perpetrating
atrocities. The UN reports 16,000 people have crossed into neighbouring Ethiopia. James Copnall reports from Khartoum.
SPLM-North wants the UN Security Council to impose a no-fly zone over Blue Nile, Southern Kordofan and Darfur. Rebels loyal to the opposition party are fighting the government in the first two locations while a separate civil war in Darfur, which began in 2003, still continues. A press release from SPLM-North also accuses the Sudanese armed forces of bombing and killing civilians in Blue Nile, and arresting hundreds of its party members. The armed forces' spokesman was not immediately available for comment.