African Union to facilitate talks in Libya

African Union to facilitate talks in Libya

The African Union (AU) is planning to facilitate talks to help end the conflict in Libya between the government and rebel forces.

The union's commission chairman, Jeand Ping said this on Friday, in a speach in Addis Ababa.

Ping said that the AU action was moving forward in a resolute political process aiming at facilitating dialogue between the Libyan parties on reforms to be launched to eliminate the root causes of the conflict.

He expressed enthusiasm that the action would end with the election of democratic institutions.

REUTERS/Williams