Little mention has been made of the atrocities in the conflict since the overthrow of Moammar el Gadaffi in 2011...
With battle lines now drawn up around Sirte home town of the former dictator Moammar el Gadaffi and Jufra airbase 220 kilometres further south the conflict is on the brink of becoming a regional war pitting Turkey against Egypt...
Vol 61 No 13 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Earlier that year Zuma even sent an armed force though not SANDF to try to protect Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi shortly before he was killed in the revolt which overthrew him (AC Vol 52 No 8 Zuma to the shores of Tripoli)...
The only place remaining in LNA hands in the west was Colonel Moammar el Gaddafi's home-town of Sirte which the GNA forces failed to take after encountering strong resistance from the Russian private military contractor Wagner Group...
Russian technicians have been repairing and rehabilitating military equipment that Russia channelled to Moammar el Gadaffi's regime...
It was the West's fault for the NATO offensive which polished off Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi's rule and unleashed hordes of jihadists across Libya's southern borders...
Turkish companies are owed some US$23 billion for unfinished projects and other debts in Libya from the Moammar el Gadaffi era...
Vol 59 No 7 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Sarkozy now faces investigation in France over claims that he accepted illegal campaign contributions from Libya's Moammar el Gadaffi...
