Vol 43 No 23 | LIBYA Hasty engagement 22nd November 2002 Friends and aspiring friends rush to embrace him but Gadaffi is in no hurry A big new hotel and high-rise housing blocks are going up in Tripoli. Libya says it wants to join the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Resolution of the dispute...
Vol 43 No 23 | LIBYA Unfinished business 22nd November 2002 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 | LIBYA Tough nut to crack 8th November 2002 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...
Vol 43 No 19 | LIBYA Retirement tent 27th September 2002 Leaders of the Gadaffi family circle and expert committees are quietly discussing plans for a constitution.
Vol 43 No 16 | CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLICLIBYA Patassé's pals 9th August 2002 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...