Vol 50 No 19 | LIBYA A new diplomatic deal after four decades in power 25th September 2009 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...
Vol 50 No 19 | LIBYABRITAIN Britain's demanding ally in Tripoli 25th September 2009 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...
Vol 50 No 19 | LIBYA Who's Who 25th September 2009 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...
Vol 50 No 12 | LIBYABELGIUM Weapons for Darfur 12th June 2009 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...
Vol 50 No 7 | LIBYAWEST AFRICAMIGRATION Aller-retour 3rd April 2009 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...
Vol 50 No 7 | LIBYAAFRICAMIGRATION Libya and its African brothers 3rd April 2009 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,...
Vol 50 No 1 | LIBYA The Gadaffi business 9th January 2009 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...
Vol 49 No 24 | LIBYANORWAYFRANCE Identifying the problems 28th November 2008 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...
Vol 49 No 15 | KENYALIBYA The Colonel's shopping spree 18th July 2008 Libyan investment in Kenya has grown over the past three years from almost nothing to an estimated tens of billions of Kenya shillings. The Libyans are now on...
Vol 1 (AAC) No 10 | KENYALIBYAINDIA Three is a crowd 3rd November 2008 Efforts by Kenya to push a compromise over a refineries contract between companies from Libya and India over oil are proving messy Kenya finally has succeeded in bringing together rival suitors for an oil refinery rehabilitation contract - but failed to secure an agreement. The acting Finance Minister, John Michuki,...