- NIAMEY, Niger: The spokesman for Niger’s government announced that Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi’s son Al-Saadi has entered the country via the northern desert separating the landlocked African nation from Libya.
Amadou Morou, who is also the minister of justice, told reporters at a news conference Sunday: “I wish to announce to you that one of Qaddafi’s sons — Al-Saadi Qaddafi — was intercepted in the north of Niger.”
He said that the son had come in a convoy along with nine other people and that they were traveling in the direction of the desert outpost of Agadez in the center of the country.
