Brega: In a bid to capture an oil installation, forces loyal to the Muammar Gaddafi are moving into rebel territory in the east.
Media reports say the 100-vehicle convoy is expected to head towards it, and an arms dump there has been bombed.
The city’s defenders are in a high state of excitement and expecting an attack.
In two weeks of unrest Col Gaddafi has lost control of large parts of Libya.
The violence has led to a major humanitarian crisis on the Tunisian border, with tens of thousands of foreigners, most of them Egyptian, stranded and unable to get home.
Some 75,000 people have fled to Tunisia since unrest began and 40,000 more are waiting to cross, the UN says.
The UN says a mass evacuation is needed and thousands of lives are at stake.
According to some reports, Brega was lightly defended, but Ajdabiya is a more important target.
It has a large arms dump which has been bombed several times by pro-Gaddafi forces.
The loyalists are now only a couple of miles from Ajdabiya, the defenders say, but there is still fighting in Brega so an attack may not be imminent.
The rebels are determined to put up a fight but it remains to be seen whether this translates into an organised defence of the city, our correspondent says.
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