Libya

Libya

Population: 6 million
GNI: $44000 million
Debt: $n/a million
Overview: Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi will reap more rewards from intelligence cooperation with the West targeting Islamist militants, especially Al Qaida. Doubts grow about political reform ahead of a promised new constitution in 2009.

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  • Vol 48 No 25
  • 14/12/2007

Pitching camp

Serious divisions emerged in French President Nicolas Sarkozy's government over his lavish hosting of Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi.

  • Vol 48 No 21
  • 19/10/2007

Security seats

The election of Libya to a seat on the United Nations Security Council on 16 October offers an opportunity for Mohamed Seif al-Islam, the son of leader Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi, to be appointed as Tripoli's permanent representative to the UN at this...

  • Vol 48 No 16
  • 03/08/2007

Winning ways

French and Qatari commercial interests are the clear winners from Presidential wife Cécilia Sarkozy's success in persuading Libyan leader Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi to release five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor bizarrely convicted of delibe...

  • Vol 46 No 5
  • 04/03/2005

Hannibal's campaign

Moammar el Gadaffi is working hard to build a new oil-friendly image. His son, named Hannibal after the North African general who so nearly conquered the Roman empire, is doing the opposite. Six months ago the police stopped him speeding the wrong way...

  • Vol 45 No 7
  • 02/04/2004

Oil, sweat and tears

British Prime Minister Tony Blair hailed a triumph for constructive engagement as he met Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi on 25 March. British business was pleased, too.

  • Vol 44 No 16
  • 08/08/2003

Opening the books

It did not take long for new head of government Shukri Ghanem, a leading liberal by the standards of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya ('State of the Masses'), to signal his intentions. Following on from a string of grandiose statements by Rev...

  • Vol 44 No 11
  • 30/05/2003

Getting to know the Colonel again

One-time Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Chester Crocker and two American oil companies are urging President George W. Bush to start a cautious rapprochement with Libya. Although Crocker remains influential on Africa policy, this advice f...

  • Vol 44 No 8
  • 18/04/2003

The quiet pro-American

Mostly quiet on the Iraq war, Colonel Gadaffi wants his oil industry to be run by US companies

  • Vol 43 No 23
  • 22/11/2002

Hasty engagement

Friends and aspiring friends rush to embrace him but Gadaffi is in no hurry

  • Vol 43 No 23
  • 22/11/2002

Unfinished business

Libya has considerable unfinished business to resolve with the West if it hopes to reintegrate into the global economy and avoid further retribution for past misdemeanours.

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