Peeters' team has now inspected four of the five African nations bidding for the 2010 World Cup

Six inspectors from world football's governing body Fifa have wrapped up a week-long visit to Libya to assess the nation's capability to host the 2010 World Cup finals.

The inspectors are unable to comment on their observations due to Fifa regulations but Jan Peeters, the delegation head, did reveal what his team had been up to since arriving in the north African nation last week.

"We have visited all the towns that are supposed to host the 2010 World Cup and inspected the sites of the stadiums which will be built for this event," Peeters told reporters.

Libya has allocated US$8 billion for the construction of eight new stadiums in six towns and for the renovation of other infrastructure works.

Peeters, who is the president of Belgium's football federation, also explained that senior Libyan financial officials have expressed their readiness to submit guaranteed bonds for the allocated money.

Libya is one of five African candidates hoping to host the 2010 World Cup, which Fifa has promised to bring to the continent for the first time.

Libyan officials have previously expressed a desire to stage a joint bid with the Tunisians, but shortly after visiting Tunisia last month Peeters announced that both countries' bids would be treated as individual cases.

In addition to Libya, the Fifa inspectors have already visited South Africa, Morocco and Tunisia.

The inspectors are due to finish visiting all the bidding African nations when they travel to Egypt from 23-30 January.

The Fifa executive will announce the winning bid on 15 May.