Niamey/Tripoli: Muammar Gaddafi's son Saadi entered the territory of Libya's southern neighbour Niger on Sunday, Niger's justice minister said.
"He was in a convoy of nine people. They were intercepted heading in the direction of Agadez," Marou Adamou told a news conference, referring to the northern town through which at least two previous convoys of Gaddafi loyalists have entered in the past week.
Adamou said the convoy with Saadi was intercepted by Nigerien soldiers who had been patrolling the Sahara. "We were not informed of their arrival," said Adamou. He said he expected them to be transferred to the capital Niamey on Monday or Tuesday.
New government
In Tripoli, the deputy chief of the National Transitional Council told reporters a new transitional government will be formed in Libya within 10 days.
"A new government will be formed within one week to ten days," said Mahmud Jibril, who serves as the "prime minister" of the NTC, the political wing of the rebellion that overthrew strongman Gaddafi.
"This new government will include representatives from different regions in Libya," Jibril said on Sunday.
Opposition forces are still "in the process of liberating Libya, and revolutionary combatant are still on the fronts", Jibril added, referring in particular to Bani Walid and Sirte, where regime loyalists are still holding out.
He said that another government will be formed once "Libya is liberated". Jibril also hailed the "liberation of Tripoli without bloodshed" last month.
"We were expecting a bloodbath, but this was prevented by the maturity of the revolutionaries who were able to secure the capital," he said.
Spy chief held
Earlier on Sunday, Bouzaid Dorda, the head of Muammar Gaddafi's external security organisation, has been arrested by anti-Gaddafi fighters, Reuters witnesses said.
Dorda, Gaddafi's foreign intelligence service chief, will be handed over to Libya's interim governing council later on Sunday, an anti-Gaddafi fighter said.
A team of Reuters journalists visited a house in the capital's Zenata district where Dorda, a former prime minister, was held by members of a unit of anti-Gaddafi fighters who call themselves Brigades of the Martyr Abdelati Ghaddour.
Dorda was kept in the downstairs living room of a private house, which was guarded by about 20 fighters clad in battle fatigues and armed with assault rifles.
Dorda took on his job in May after his predecessor Moussa Koussa defected. He has been subject to a travel ban under a United Nations sanctions resolution passed in February.
Dorda is one of several former government officials rounded up since Tripoli fell to anti-Gaddafi forces last month. Gaddafi's foreign minister, Abdelati Obeidi, was arrested on August 31 in a suburb west of Tripoli.
