Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi

French and Qatari commercial interests are the clear winners from Presidential wife Cécilia Sarkozy's success in persuading Libyan leader Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi to release five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor bizarrely convicted of deliberately infecting 400 children in the eastern city of Benghazi with HIV...

Museveni vocally opposed proposals at the latest African Union summit in Accra by Libyan leader Moammar el Gadaffi for the immediate formation of an AU government (AC Vol 48 No 14)...

Yet it was evident from the start that there was little common ground between a minority group calling for the immediate formation of a Union Government led by Libyan leader Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi and Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade and the majority group led by Africa's biggest economies of Algeria South Africa Nigeria and Kenya which paid obeisance to Nkrumah's memory and the pan-African vision but saw the road to African political unity as a long and arduous one...

More than any other leader at the summit apart from host John Kufuor the Libyan leader Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi had prepared meticulously for the Grand Debate...

Blair's meeting with Libyan leader Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi shows just how disjointed British policy remains...

So did April's Tripoli summit where Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi basked in the attention of Sudanese Chadian Eritrean Egyptian US and European delegations...

The Libyan leader Moammar el Gadaffi wastes no opportunity to attack this group in Libya or abroad...

Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi excused his absence through Mali's President Amadou Toumani Touré who was effulgent towards Chirac while - in a conference workshop - Somalia's Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi raised some eyebrows by speaking of his country as in a 'post-conflict situation'...

Algeria Morocco and Tunisia have little enthusiasm for the Islamist regime and Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi ostentatiously sided with Chadian leader Idris Déby Itno in his increasingly personal dispute with Khartoum...

Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi is not losing his zest for power or for playing the international wild card...