Libyan and Egyptian activists said medical aid was loaded on board a convoy bound for Benghazi on Sunday. The Egyptian lawyer and activist Ayman Shawqi, who lives in the coastal city of Marsa Matrouh, near Libya, said Libyan activists, the Arab Doctors Union and the Egyptian-Libyan Awlad Ali tribe had collected tons of medicals supplies for Libya. Egyptian authorities granted the convoy access to Libya, Shawqi told Al-Masry Al-Youm. When organizers contacted Libyan guards in al-Masaeed, located near the Salloum border point, they welcomed the convoy. Asked about stance of the Awlad Ali tribe--which has dual citizenship, lives in the border areas between Egypt and Libya, and keeps good relations with Libyan President Muammar Qaddafi--Shawqi said “Qaddafi is a dictator. Our stances cannot be different from our people's in Libya.” In related news, around 1000 Egyptians demonstrated in Marsa Matrouh to express their support of the Libyan people and to call for the resignation of Qaddafi, who has been in office since 1969. Libyan authorities apparently used live ammunition to disperse pro-democracy protests that began on 17 February. More than 100 have been reported killed during clashes with police, the army and Qaddafi's militias.
