Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi

Rapidly following Brown's message were greetings from United States President Barack Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy as well as more exotic felicitations from Libyan leader Moammar el Gadaffi and the Chairman of the Russian Federation's Communist party Gennady Zyuganov...

Yet a military victory for JEM might diminish Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi's leverage on both JEM and Déby who would love to be free of Libyan tutelage...

Gabon's President Omar Bongo Ondimba Burkinabè President Blaise Compaoré and Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi tried to mediate but failed...

The countries with the worst records for expulsions are Angola Equatorial Guinea Gabon and paradoxically Libya whose leader Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi wants the AU to transform into a African government with a common currency a continental military and unrestricted migration...

AU delegates were divided over who should represent their organisation although many argued that it would not be appropriate for newly elected Chairman Libyan leader Moammar el Gadaffi to represent Africa by himself and that Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete and Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni should buttress the AU delegation...

'At least our meetings with Libya's Moammar el Gadaffi as Chairman won't be boring' said one official ruefully at the African Union's 1-4 February summit in Addis Ababa...

Once again the question of a Union Government of Africa and its leading proponent Libya's Moammar el Gadaffi have dominated an African Union summit...

Some African leaders notably Senegal's Abdoulaye Wade and Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi are backing the putschists and have called for them to be given more time...

Chief among the celebrants this year will be Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi who in 40 years of power has traded his status as scourge of the United States and self-appointed leader of the Arab resistance for a new-found friendship with Western capital (AC Vol 49 No 24) and a role as informer-in-chief for the USA and Europe on Al Qaida and other Islamist movements...

LIBYA: Holding on to power Huge investment is promised in housing transport power and education to mark the 40th anniversary of Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi's 1 September 1969 coup...

Moammar el Gadaffi last June) have achieved only superficial reconciliation...