It contrasts with the lack of interest and effort in helping to resolve Africa's security problems some of which are tracked back to the west's role in the overthrow of Libyan leader Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi...

Since the fall of Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi no public facilities have been maintained including the two dams at Derna and no emergency plans were in place...

He is now operating from Sirte the hometown of Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi...

Some have resurrected Nelson Mandela's response when asked on US television why he had met with Yasser Arafat Fidel Castro and Moammer el Gadaffi: 'One of the mistakes that some political analysts make is to think that their enemies should be our enemies'...

And NATO's no-fly zone backed by the UN Security Council was widely seen as using the widely supported 'Responsibility to Protect' imperative as cover to topple Moammar el Gadaffi's regime in 2011...

Almost immediately dozens of potential candidates lined up the most improbable of whom was among the first to declare – Seif el Islam el Gadaffi the second son of deceased dictator Moammar el Gadaffi...

Saïed's notions of a locally-focused 'elevatory democracy' – with uncomfortable echoes of Moammar Gaddafi's 'popular committees' and wartime rule by Benito Mussolini's corporatist state in Italy – are unlikely to deliver...

Nonetheless he appears to believe like Moammar el Gadaffi before him that Libyans want him...