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The National Transitional Council will struggle to meet the June 2012 deadline to hold elections for a 200-member constituent assembly. Prime Minister Abdurrahim el Keib's government urgently needs to appoint a new army chief as it tries to mould more than 200 militias into a single national force.


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  • Vol 51 No 23
  •  19th November 2010

Paternal censorship

Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi has ordered the release of 20 journalists employed by his son Seif el Islam el Gadaffi’s publishing company, Al Ghad Media Services, who were arrested at the beginning of November on the orders of Prime Minister El Baghdadi el M...

  • Vol 51 No 18
  •  10th September 2010

The Colonel’s Roman holiday

Libyan President Moammar el Gadaffi flew into Rome on 29 August for the second anniversary of his ‘friendship treaty’ with Italy, accompanied by 30 berber horses and a speech aimed at converting young Italian women to Islam. Beyond the spectacle, the sum...

  • Vol 50 No 19
  •  25th September 2009

A new diplomatic deal after four decades in power

Forty years after his El Fatah Revolution, Libyan leader Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi gave his first address to the United Nations General Assembly on 23 September with a meandering, 94-minute speech from which Western leaders made sure they absented themse...

  • Vol 50 No 19
  •  25th September 2009

Britain's demanding ally in Tripoli

Britain's release of convicted terrorist Abdelbaset al Megrahi has prompted widespread criticism (especially from Washington), but Whitehall officials judged it worth the price of closer security ties with Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi's regime and commerc...

  • Vol 50 No 19
  •  25th September 2009

Who's Who

Power in Libya is concentrated around Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi's family and a select group of politicians

  • Vol 50 No 12
  •  12th June 2009

Weapons for Darfur

As Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi and his 200-member delegation pitched their tent for a business bonanza in Rome, it emerged that Belgium is to export weapons to Libya that may be used in Darfur. An 11.5 million euro (US$16.1 mn.) deal for 2,000 anti-riot g...

  • Vol 50 No 7
  •  3rd April 2009

Aller-retour

Huge numbers of West Africans hope to make a living abroad but find barriers in neighbouring countries and the rich West

  • Vol 50 No 7
  •  3rd April 2009

Libya and its African brothers

The row in Africa over migration weakens progress towards the African Union's aims of the free movement of people, goods and services across the continent, says Albert Ouédraogo, Chairman of Le Tocsin (the Alarm) a support group for expelled migrants. Alm...

  • Vol 50 No 1
  •  9th January 2009

The Gadaffi business

The Gadaffis expect to enjoy another generation in power; this is not universally popular

  • Vol 49 No 24
  •  28th November 2008

Identifying the problems

France’s Total and Spain’s Repsol YPF oil companies are under pressure to divulge who received more than US$6 million in consultant fees paid to suspected politically connected intermediaries in Libya. The fees are mentioned in a StatoilHydro report (AC V...

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