Vol 58 No 17 | LIBYAITALYEUROPEAN UNION All at sea over migration 9th August 2017 A row over a deal between Rome and Tripoli to police the Mediterranean points to deepening divisions on migration in Africa and Europe An Italian operation backing efforts by the Libyan coastguard to intercept ships carrying migrants across the Mediterranean risks widening the political fight between the country's rival factions in...
Vol 51 No 24 | LIBYA Gadaffi's Jacob and Esau 3rd December 2010 With its control of state revenue - amounting to over US$400 billion – for the past four decades, the Gadaffi family has become a sprawling, opaque and sometimes...
Vol 42 No 14 | LIBYAORGANISATION OF AFRICAN UNITY Gadaffi's big tent 13th July 2001 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...
Vol 40 No 15 | LIBYA Tripoli calling 23rd July 1999 Brother Leader Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi's return to the African diplomatic circuit was a high point of the July Organisation of African Unity summit in Algiers. His entourage...
Vol 41 No 20 | LIBYAWEST AFRICA Racist rage 13th October 2000 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...