get rid of
Gaddafi. So everybody is working hard. We are internally in our own government looking at every option imaginable."
In Libya itself, rebels holding the eastern oil port of Ras Lanuf have come under heavy attack from Colonel Gaddafi's forces. Heavy fighting has also been reported further east in the rebel-held town of Brega, which has been bombed by government planes. The International Committee of the Red Cross has meanwhile said that Libya has now
descended into
civil war.
Police in an eastern province of Saudi Arabia have opened fire on a rally as protesters took to the streets to call for political reforms in the kingdom. Witnesses have reported gunfire in the city of Qatif, and there are reports of stun grenades being used on the demonstrators.
Representatives of Laurent Gbagbo, the Ivory Coast's leader who refuses to leave, have rejected an African Union proposal aimed at resolving the country's crisis. The plan was
drawn up
by a team of five African heads of state who were given the task of resolving the dispute. Will Ross reports.
Mr Gbagbo
boycott
ed this summit probably because leaving the country would be risky for the man seen by much of the international community as the illegitimate president of Ivory Coast. An official from his party suggested the AU would be responsible for pushing the country into civil war if it insisted on recognising Alassane Ouattara as the rightful president. The