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            Vol 66 No 20 | 
            - LIBYA
- FRANCE
	     Judge Nathalie Gavarino said Sarkozy had ‘allowed his close collaborators and political supporters over whom he had authority and who acted in his name' to approach former Libyan leader Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi's officials ‘in order to obtain or attempt to obtain financial support'...
	 
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            Vol 66 No 17 | 
            - NIGER
- SAHEL
	     After joining the army in 1984  Tiani saw Kountché's defiance of Libya's leader Colonel Moammar Gadaffi who accused Niger of maltreating the Tuareg...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	    After three months in illegal detention – partly in one of Libya's most brutal prisons – Mohammed al Mensli  Director-General of the Libyan Asset Recovery and Management Office (LARMO) has been released – opening the way for his agency to pursue the recovery of up to US$50 billion in assets stolen by Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi's regime overthrown in 2011...
	 
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            Vol 66 No 7 | 
            - LIBYA
- FRANCE
	    The trial of former President Nicolas Sarkozy  who may face a seven-year sentence if convicted on corruption charges  is shedding light on France's backchannel talks with the government of ousted Libyan leader Colonel Moammar Gadaffi...
	 
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	     Mahamat Nour Abdel Kerim  a well-known Tama leader from the 2000s  joined Idriss Déby after Libyan leader Moammar el Gadaffi mediated...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Military cooperation widened between coastal West African and Sahelian states when Moammar el Gadaffi's overthrow in Libya in 2011 triggered the southwards migration of myriad jihadist fighters...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     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...
	 
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	     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...
	 
    
    
    
			
        
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	     Rescue efforts are being held up by the poor state of infrastructure in the region  worsened by a decade of conflict between rival militias and political partition in the wake of the overthrow of Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi in 2011...
	 
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	     He is now operating from Sirte  the hometown of Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi...