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Libyan government promises aid workers access, UN says

The Libyan government has promised aid workers access to areas under its control, according to the UN.

UN officials say the agreement allows humanitarian workers to set themselves up in the capital, Tripoli, and to come and go freely into Libya.
Meanwhile, about 1,000 people who were evacuated from Misrata have arrived in the rebel base of Benghazi.
Pro-Gaddafi forces have been pounding the city for days and hundreds of people are thought to have been killed.
Those evacuated were brought out on a ship chartered by the aid agency, the International Organisation for Migration, which says thousands more are waiting to be rescued.
Rebel forces on Monday said they were making ground in Misrata, but that pro-Gaddafi forces were continuing to press the rebel-held town of Ajdabiya in the east.