Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi

The summit duly condemned the Chadian rebels and sent as mediators three one-time coup-makers - Presidents Denis Sassou Nguesso of Congo-Brazzaville Blaise Compaoré of Burkina Faso and Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi of Libya (who once sent his tanks into Chad)...

He had written an opinion piece ahead of the African Union summit in Addis Ababa calling on African leaders to form one government as proposed by Libya's Moammar el Gadaffi and criticising South Africa and Kenya for delaying its formation...

Nothing came of a peace plan signed in October under the auspices of the Libyan leader Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi and supposed to involve Chad Sudan and their rebel movements...

Moammar el Gadaffi’s decision to ‘give up’ weapons of mass destruction and renounce terrorism (AC Vol 48 No 21) while cracking down on the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) and less deadly local rivals by making plans for a new Tripoli embassy and by flooding the ‘Jamahiriya’ (State of the Masses) with US oilmen...

The Libyans on the other hand had seemingly bought into the refinery on the basis of preferential access following the signing of a bilateral memorandum of understanding between Presidents Kibaki and Moammar el Gaddafi in Sirte Libya in June 2007...

Serious divisions emerged in French President Nicolas Sarkozy's government over his lavish hosting of Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi...

Senior officials including the AU’s Salim Ahmed Salim and the UN’s Jan Eliasson (not to mention Libyan leader Moammar el Gadaffi) had loudly touted this ‘last chance’ for peace threatening rebels who didn’t agree (AC Vol 48 No 21)...

Additionally no one trusts Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi's government which has meddled militarily in Darfur since it seized power in 1969...

The election of Libya to a seat on the United Nations Security Council on 16 October offers an opportunity for Mohamed Seif al-Islam the son of leader Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi to be appointed as Tripoli's permanent representative to the UN at this critical time...

One highly questionable report claims that Zuma received funds from the Libyan leader Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi and Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos in return for his support when elected...