Muammar Gaddafi is ready for a truce to stop the fighting in his country, the visiting South African president said after meeting the Libyan ruler, but he listed familiar Gaddafi conditions that have scuttled previous cease-fire efforts.

A Ukrainian newspaper is reporting that Muammar Gaddafi’s Ukrainian nurse is planning to flee the violence in Libya and return home as anti-government forces backed by rebel army troops are in control of the city closest to the capital Tripoli.

A member of the Benghazi city council said the Libyan cities under rebel control have appointed an ex-justice minister to lead a provisional government.