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.
Moammar el Gadaffi wants Silvio Berlusconi to buy him a railway or a road. Then he might just stop bending visitors' ears about Italian abuses during Benito Mussolini's regime. Though Libya is changing, its Leader remains a mercurial figure who continue...
Leaders of the Gadaffi family circle and expert committees are quietly discussing plans for a constitution.
President Ange-Félix Patassé has become even more dependent on the protection of Libya and its Bangui garrison, as last month's arrest of Finance Minister Eric Sorongopé-Zoumanji on corruption charges provokes continued rumblings in t...
Irritating Western powers is an enduring spectator sport in Africa as the continuing interest in Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi shows (AC Vol 42 No 11). Addressing several hundred activists and students in a tent outside the Libyan People's Bureau (Embassy) i...
Oil industry circles are intrigued by an emerging Libyan-connected oil trading firm registered in Zurich.
Western governments reopen business with Tripoli but the Colonel
hasn't changed
The family of Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi is the centre of political attention. Doyenne of the Gadaffi Al-Dam branch is the Guide's wife, Safia el-Brassai, who emerged in public last year for events including the extraordinary Organisation of African Unity...
Racist hysteria against blacks in Libya has dented Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi's ambition to create a 'United States of Africa' (USA) next year. He proclaimed his plan to July's Organisation of African Unity summit in Lomé, Togo. Three months later,...
Investment in Africa has become a feature of Saudi Arabian Prince Al Walid bin Talal's business, suggesting that the Arab world's preeminent multi-billionaire sees the continent as a 'recovery play', where investors can win recovery or new success.
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