Sources reported a large military convoy has crossed the Libyan border and arrived in the northern Niger city of Agadez late Monday.

Sources reported a large military convoy has crossed the Libyan border and arrived in the northern Niger city of Agadez late Monday.

A French military source and a Niger military source told the Reuters news agency that the convoy contained between 200 and 250 Libyan military vehicles and included officers from Libya's southern army battalions, and likely crossed from Libya into Algeria before entering Niger.

The French military source said he had been told Gaddafi and his son Saif al-Islam might be considering joining the convoy en route to Burkina Faso, a landlocked West African state which has a border with Niger.
Burkina Faso, a former recipient of large amounts of Libyan aid, offered Gaddafi exile about two weeks ago but has also recognized the National Transitional Council (NTC) as Libya's government.

"I saw an exceptionally large and rare convoy of several dozen vehicles enter Agadez from Arlit... and go towards Niamey”, AFP news agency quoted the military source as saying.
“There are persistent rumors that Gaddafi or one of his sons are travelling in the convoy”, the source added.
Earlier, a Nigerien government source said prominent regime officials had fled across the border.

The source added that these officials included Gaddafi's internal security chief Mansour Daw, who was earlier reported to be in Bani Walid with at least two of the toppled leader's sons.

For his part, the executive director of Libya Human and Political Development Forum, considered Niger’s harboring of Gaddafi-regime officials a “breach of the United Nations travel [restrictions] for most of these people".
Niger should "not side with the enemy of the Libyan people”, Aly Abuzaakouk told al-Jazeera channel.

GADDAFI IN “HIGH SPIRITS”
On Monday, Col Gaddafi's spokesman Moussa Ibrahim said that the Libyan leader was in "excellent health" and still in Libya.
Gaddafi "is in very high spirits, he is in a place that will not be reached by those fractious groups, and he is in Libya, "Ibrahim told Syrian-based Arrai TV.

Gaddafi has vowed to fight to the death despite major advances of Libyan rebels, who now control most Libya's key cities, including Tripoli.