Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi

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...

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...

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...

Unity Party insiders hope for tens of millions of dollars from Libya’s Moammar el Gadaffi...

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...

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

The reign of Libya’s Moammar el Gadaffi as Chairman of the African Union has ended in a petulant whimper rather than in a big bang for African unity as the Colonel had promised...

The monument’s inauguration has also been delayed by refusals to attend from Barack Obama Nicolas Sarkozy Moammar el Gadaffi and Nelson Mandela...

A protégé of Moammar el Gadaffi Miskine is often in Libya...

Efforts by Libya's Moammar el Gadaffi and Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani to heal the rift between presidents Bouteflika and Mohamed Hosni Mubarak have so far failed...