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 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.

  • Vol 43 No 22
  • 08/11/2002

Tough nut to crack

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...

  • Vol 43 No 19
  • 27/09/2002

Retirement tent

Leaders of the Gadaffi family circle and expert committees are quietly discussing plans for a constitution.

  • Vol 43 No 16
  • 09/08/2002

Patassé's pals

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...

  • Vol 42 No 14
  • 13/07/2001

Gadaffi's big tent

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...

  • Vol 42 No 11
  • 01/06/2001

Got your number

Oil industry circles are intrigued by an emerging Libyan-connected oil trading firm registered in Zurich.

  • Vol 41 No 21
  • 27/10/2000

Gadaffi's prime time

Western governments reopen business with Tripoli but the Colonel hasn't changed

  • Vol 41 No 21
  • 27/10/2000

Family affairs

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...

  • Vol 41 No 20
  • 13/10/2000

Racist rage

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,...

  • Vol 41 No 16
  • 04/08/2000

Look who's here!

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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