The number of refugees surging across the Tunisian and Egyptian borders is rising while Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi’s troops are embroiled in a bloody campaign – dubbed ‘ethnic cleansing’ by a former regime insider – in the Jebel Nafousa mountain range which is populated by Tunisian Berber people...
If Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi falls from power Dos Santos will inherit the dubious mantle of longest-serving head of state in Africa...
Meanwhile hundreds of Chadians who worked in Libya sometimes for Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi’s government are flooding back home raising the spectre of war breaking out again in the north...
Not a Gadaffi clone Many Algerians point out that Bouteflika is not a dictator in the mould of Tunisia’s Zine el Abidine Ben Ali or Libya’s Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi...
President Zuma spent several hours with Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi in Tripoli in the company of fellow members of the AU delegation – and fellow past recipients of the Libyan leader’s largesse – President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz of Mauritania President Denis Sassou-Nguesso of Congo-Brazzaville President Amadou Toumani Touré of Mali and the Chairman of the AU Commission Jean Ping of Gabon...
Vol 52 No 7 |
- LIBYA
- AFRICA
The resilience of Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi’s regime after ten days of aerial bombardment combined with the military weakness of the opposition groups has prompted Britain France and the United States to step up involvement in the war...
The most familiar faces to join the revolution include the Ambassador to the United Nations Abdel Rahman Shalgam a former Foreign Secretary and regime stalwart (AC Vol 47 No 1) and several defectors associated with the failed reform initiatives pushed by Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi’s son Seif el Islam el Gadaffi...
Vol 52 No 7 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
He suffered further embarrassment when Libyan television reported that he had spoken to Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi a generous contributor to his campaign against Mbeki and expressed his ‘support’...
The European Union’s decision to freeze the assets of the Central Bank of Libya the Libyan Investment Authority sovereign fund and other businesses could have serious consequences for Libyan investment in sub-Saharan Africa where Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi sought to build strong trade as well as political links...
As Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi fights back hard against his opponents the prospect of his early overthrow has given way to concern about widespread instability in a deeply fractured country...
