Ban voices UN readiness to help Tunisia hold credible elections. 30 January 2011 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called for support for the establishment of an inclusive interim government in Tunisia, telling the summit of the African Union that the United Nations is willing to help the North African country hold credible elections.
“We at the United Nations will be pleased to help the people of Tunisia freely choose their leaders through timely and credible elections,” Mr. Ban said in his address to the African Union Summit in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. Civil unrest forced Tunisia's president, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, to flee the country earlier this month as people took to the streets in often violent protests reportedly against rising prices of essential commodities, lack of employment opportunities, alleged corruption and limitations on fundamental rights and freedoms. a1eksanderr.amplify. Libya: Gaddafi government accepts peace plan, says Zuma.
11 April 2011Last updated at 10:14 A rebel spokesman said any deal designed to keep Colonel Gaddafi or his sons in place would not be acceptable South African President Jacob Zuma says the Libyan government has accepted an African Union peace proposal to end the eight-week-old conflict.
Mr Zuma's AU delegation met Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi in Tripoli on Sunday. An AU team is going to the eastern rebel stronghold of Benghazi. Libya/Tripoli/Gaddafi.