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Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi

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


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Paternal censorship

Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi has ordered the release of 20 journalists employed by his son Seif el Islam el Gadaffi’s publishing company Al Ghad Media Services who were arrested at the beginning of November on the orders of Prime Minister El Baghdadi el Mahmoudi...


Approaching the summit

The EU had hoped that Sudan’s detested President Omer el Beshir wouldn’t be among them but he had been invited back in July by Mohamed Sayyala Special Envoy of the Libyan Guide Moammar el Gadaffi...


Buttering up Zuma

This could be awkward due to the yearly 5 billion euros demanded by Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi the Libyan leader for clamping down on illegal immigration through his country which he did not get...


The Colonel’s Roman holiday

Libyan President Moammar el Gadaffi flew into Rome on 29 August for the second anniversary of his ‘friendship treaty’ with Italy accompanied by 30 berber horses and a speech aimed at converting young Italian women to Islam...


Oily alliances

The discovery – from satellite photographs published by London-based Global Witness – that the secretive consortium has started seismic work in the far north-west of Darfur raises doubts about the personal neutrality of two key players in the episodic peace talks: Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi whose family has a strong commercial interest in the Libyan state oil company and the Chairman of the African Union Jean Ping Gabon’s former Foreign Minister and a close associate of the Gabonese investor...


Votes and the mining houses

Kouyaté and Condé now struggle for control of some mainly Mandingo villages in Upper Guinea and Kouyaté who is Mandingo leads the brand-new Parti de l’Espoir pour le Développement National whose main asset is the backing of Libya’s Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi...


Opposing Issayas

Issayas has made overtures to African states including Nigeria and South Africa and visited Egyptian President Mohamed Hosni Mubarak as well as his close ally Libya’s Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi and he finally allowed a UN mission into Eritrea...


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Tarnished triumph

Like Libya’s Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi who quickly expressed solidarity with Faure Compaoré plays in the diamonds-and-arms trade with the Gnassingbés...


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