£950m) in Libyan dinar bank notes held in the UK. The money would help address urgent humanitarian needs. But now the biggest challenges faced by the National Transitional Council (NTC) are whereabouts of Gaddafi and the next one is uniting the various forces that fought against the 42 year rule of the Gaddafi regime. Major strategic and diplomatic decisions have to be adopted to sink the differences that arise between the cadres. Such a political leadership is still not in the near vicinity.

On eve of Eid festival the rebels have declared holiday ceasefire and issued an ultimatum to Gaddafi forces to surrender before Saturday, to avoid bloodshed and to get back to the main stream. UK Foreign Secretary William Hague welcomed the deadline, said I think it's the right thing to do. Mustafa Abdul Jalil, who leads the NTC, said the ultimatum applied to loyalists of Col Muammar Gaddafi in his hometown of Sirte and in other towns.

Jalil also spoke to the NATO officials that they have decided that they needed no foreign forces to maintain the internal security, as he felt that the youth in the cadre shall do the needful. This could be reply to the UN recommendation to the deployment of up to 200 unarmed military observers, principally to monitor the process of dealing with forces loyal to fugitive leader Col Muammar Gaddafi and up to 190 UN police officers to help train local forces.

Meanwhile Zimbabwe, whose President Robert Mugabe is a strong ally of Col Gaddafi, expelled the Libyan ambassador and his staff on Tuesday. The Libyan ambassador and his staff decided to renounce their allegiance to the government of Colonel Gaddafi. This act deprives the Libyan ambassador and his staff of any diplomatic status in Zimbabwe because Zimbabwe does not recognise the NTC, said Simbarashe Mumbengegwi the Zimbabwe Foreign Minister