Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi

IGAD's Western partners can't tell Egypt or Libya to keep their noses out especially since some are investing heavily in the oil-fields of Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi's newly respectable Great Jamahiriya...

Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi attending his first OAU summit since 1977 had failed to help when Eritrea's President Issayas Afeworki failed to arrive in Tripoli for pre-OAU talks with Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi...

And Bouteflika persuaded Tunisia's President Zein el Abidine Ben Ali and Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi to attend the OAU...

Liked in the United States he has maintained close contacts with both US President Bill Clinton and Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi...

Brother Leader Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi's return to the African diplomatic circuit was a high point of the July Organisation of African Unity summit in Algiers...

On 24 May President Mubarak paid a sudden four-hour visit to the Libyan leader Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi; publicly this was said to be to strengthen business ties but the leaders also discussed Gadaffi's supposed mediating role in both the Ethiopia-Eritrea dispute and the war in Congo-Kinshasa...

Facing this spectre Issayas has been sounding out the possibilities of the Sudanese-Eritrean rapprochement mediated by Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi...

The Blair-Mandela-Mbeki talks also moved forward the – now successful – attempts to persuade Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi to hand over the two suspects in the Lockerbie bombing for trial...

The Ghanaian leader bluntly told him that Taylor was stabbing West Africa in the back adding that the US evidence indicated the close involvement in the assault on Freetown not just of Taylor but of another West African leader (Compaoré) plus a North African (Libya’s Moammar el Gadaffi)...

These Chadian forces are paid for by Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi’s government in Libya...