A group of South African farmers arrived in Tripoli, Libya yesterday to help revive commercial agriculture in the oil-rich north African country.

Democratic Party (DP) presidential hopeful Nasser Ntege Ssebagala has said he has been talking to Libya's Muammar Gadaffi, telling him not to support President Museveni's re-election in 2011.

Anyone can knock on your door." That is in part how someone high-up in the Libyan political establishment responded to reports recently emerging from the United Kingdom, U.K, that some victims of Irish Republican Army (I.R.A) bombings in that country now plan to pursue monetary compensations from the Libyan government. Saif Al Islam Qadafi is one of the seven sons of the Libyan leader, Col. Moammar El Qadafi, who until his recent departure from the public eye, used to be foreign policy face of the colonel's 40-year-old government.

At least three Somali detainees died and three others are in a very critical condition after facing livelihood difficulties in the Libyan jails, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Tuesday.

The Libyan authorities have accepted to stop the execution of Nigerians on death row in Libya pending the final determination of the case brought by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) before the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, in Banjul, The Gambia.

What makes Nigerian women bring out the best in them? The answer is simple. Threaten the life of any compatriot or make them undergo anguish and they become very avid.

LIBYAN leader Col. Muammar Gadaffi is expected in Uganda to chair the African Union (AU) summit on refugees from September 19 to 23.

RECENT comments about strained relations between Uganda and Libya were dismissed when the presidents of the two countries agreed on the place of traditional rulers at the last United Nations General Assembly in New York.

Over 734 Nigerians have been deported from Libya in a spate of four days, Daily Champion has learnt.

As Nigerians on death row in Libya continue to mull over their fate, the country has deported yet another batch of 734 people.

The Libyan authorities have accepted to stop the execution of Nigerians on death row there, pending the determination of the case brought by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) before the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, in Banjul, The Gambia.

Temporary relief has come the way of Nigerians on death row in Libya as the country's authorities have agreed to stop their execution. The suspension was made pending the final determination of a case brought by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), a non-governmental organisation (NGO), before the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, in Banjul, The Gambia.

Tripoli is not covertly working with Uganda's cultural leaders to undermine or topple the ruling NRM government, Libyan ambassador Abdalla Bujeldain has said.

THE Libyan government has dismissed reports that President Muamar Gadaffi is supporting efforts to bring down President Yoweri Museveni.

House of Representatives Committee on Diaspora Matters yesterday vowed to confront the Chinese government over the planned cremation of the bodies of 30 Nigerians who died under questionable circumstances in China.

FOUR Nigerians jailed for life in Libya are pleading with the embassy in Tripoli to get them out following the recent amnesty declared by the Libyan authorities. Ismaila Monday, Valentine Okoye, Solomon Chukwu Francis and Chinedu Orji called Sunday Vanguard from the Medium Prisons, Nais, Tripoli to say they had been overlooked by the embassy in getting Nigerians out of jail there.

More than 200 detained Somali immigrants in Liyan jails have started drinking poison, just after they missed their right of livelihood and health in the prisons, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Tuesday.

MYSTERY surrounds the cancellation of a trip for MPs to meet with Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi earlier this month.While some MPs said the trip was cancelled by Gadaffi, others said the Government objected to it.

Barely two weeks after a request came from the African Commission on Human Rights (ACHR) urging the Chairman of the African Union (AU) President Muamar Ghadafi to release Nigerians on death row in his country Libya, some others on death row in Tripoli have called on the Federal Government to help save their lives.

Going by the strange, rambling speech he gave to the UN General Assembly on Wednesday, it is no longer an idle question whether Libya's Muammar Gaddafi could be a source of scorn for Africa rather than an asset.