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...
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 42 No 11 | LIBYA Got your number 1st June 2001 Oil industry circles are intrigued by an emerging Libyan-connected oil trading firm registered in Zurich.
Vol 41 No 21 | LIBYA Gadaffi's prime time 27th October 2000 Western governments reopen business with Tripoli but the Colonel hasn't changed Rarely can Moammar el Gadaffi have felt so secure. Even thinking United States politicians now accept that an end to sanctions is inevitable, whoever wins the November presidential...
Vol 41 No 21 | LIBYA Family affairs 27th October 2000 The family of Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi is the centre of political attention. Doyenne of the Gadaffi Al-Dam branch is the Guide's wife, Safia el-Brassai, who emerged in...
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...
Vol 41 No 16 | LIBYAAFRICA Look who's here! 4th August 2000 Investment in Africa has become a feature of Saudi Arabian Prince Al Walid bin Talal's business, suggesting that the Arab world's preeminent multi-billionaire sees the continent as a...
Vol 40 No 23 | LIBYACONGO-KINSHASA Diamonds for guns 19th November 1999 A five-man Libyan 'business delegation' visited Kinshasa last month to express Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi's 'desire to invest in the diamond sector', said local press reports. The Libyans,...