Vol 51 No 18 |
- LIBYA
- ITALY
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...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 10 |
- LIBYA
- SOUTH KOREA
An espionage row is holding up progress on a US$438 million project.
An espionage row in which Libya expelled one of Seoul’s secret agents is holding up progress on a US$438 million project signed on 6 August between South Korea’s Daewoo Engineering...
Foreign Affairs Minister, Libya
Libya's Foreign Minister Musa Kusa was among
the first of a wave of African ministers who are loudly and publicly
criticising China's activities. In a 10 November interview
with...
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 themselves. The upset caused by the homecoming celebration for Abdelbaset al Megrahi, convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, showed that Gadaffi's diplomatic rehabilitation was far from complete, despite his regime's abandoning its nuclear weapons programme in 2003 and reopening its oil industry to foreign investors.
Sporting a rust-brown robe and a black cap, Moammar el Gadaffi opened his address to the General Assembly with a greeting to 'our son Obama' on behalf of the 1,000 African kings he...
Vol 50 No 19 |
- LIBYA
- BRITAIN
Britain's release of convicted terrorist Abdelbaset al Megrahi has prompted widespread criticism (especially from Washington), but Whitehall officials judged it worth the price o...
Power in Libya is concentrated around Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi's family and a select group of politicians
Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi: the 67-year old Brother Leader of the Revolution is still in complete command. All speculation about his children's influence must be put in the context...
Vol 50 No 12 |
- LIBYA
- BELGIUM
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 us...
Huge numbers of West Africans hope to make a living abroad but find barriers in neighbouring countries and the rich West
The loss of more than 200 lives on 30 March, when a ship carrying African migrants to Europe sank off the coast of Libya, prompted calls for rich countries to ease their strictures...
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, C...
The Gadaffis expect to enjoy another generation in power; this is not universally popular
Libya’s Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi who, in 40 years of power, has traded his status as scourge of the United States and self-appointed leader of the Arab resistance for a new-found...
