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Libya

Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi

Date of Birth: 7 June 1942
Place of Birth: Sirte
Died: 20 October 2011


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Democracy heads south

Sudanese ask why the United Nations says nothing about Khartoum’s attacks on civilians in the South and Darfur but protests against Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi’s attacks on his people in Libya...


Activists versus authoritarians

After calls for a ‘day of rage’ against Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi’s regime protestors went on to the streets of Benghazi Zentan and El Bayda faced by well-financed and organised counter demonstrations...


Uneasy lies the head

The State Department cables about meetings with Shukri Ghanem the head of the National Oil Corporation and Prime Minister in 2004-06 afford unique insights into oil policy Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi’s family and the extreme unlikelihood of reform...

Ghanem’s friend added that Moammar el Gadaffi is interested only in cosmetic reform telling the diplomats he is ‘anxious to give the appearance of a pro-reform agenda’ and had asked Ghanem to become prime minister again...

Moammar el Gadaffi is 68...


Summitry in a time of revolution

Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and Libyan leader Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi both targeted by Islamist insurrectionists in the past also stayed away...


Playing dominoes

The conventional view is that the Libyan population is too small scattered well off and under the control of Moammar el Gadaffi's security forces to present a revolutionary threat...


The jasmine and khaki revolution

The coalition also has to contend with the plotting of the Ben Ali clan in exile with its extensive foreign holdings in Dubai and Europe and its regional allies such as Libyan leader Moammar el Gadaffi who publicly lamented Ben Ali’s overthrow...


Rebuilding relations

The National Transitional Council (NTC) has finally formed a government which should kickstart Libya’s reconstruction despite the fact that loyalists to former leader Moammar el Gadaffi are still holding out in Sirte...


    Vol 4 (AAC) No 12 |
  • LIBYA

Mustafa Abdel Jalil

Even as it recognised the NTC on 12 September the Foreign Ministry was playing down the revelation that Chinese companies had discussed arms sales with Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi’s regime as recently as July...


Timber company cuts corners

The media hype surrounding hip hop artists’ performances for the family of Libyan leader Moammar el Gadaffi had died down enough for R...


Castles made of sand

Beijing signalled the biggest change in its Africa policy when it decided to accept the National Transitional Council as a negotiating partner in the peace talks between Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi and Libya’s rebel groups...


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