Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi

France and the USA worked closely on last year’s Guinean and Ivorian election crises as they do on military operations against the regime of Libya’s Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi...

As the rebel war to drive Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi from power stretches out public support for the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation’s intervention is weakening...

The Algerian government in particular claims that the Libyan conflict has strengthened Al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb with Islamist networks in eastern Libya providing AQIM with men and weapons – just one reason why Algiers fears the consequences of the fall of Moammar el Gadaffi...

Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi had promised Freetown 24 new buses plus plenty of cash and of course his own presence for the celebrations...

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...

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...