Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi

Having assiduously and unsuccessfully wooed Arab states during his 29 years in power Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi is now courting Sub-Saharan governments...

Libya has promised weapons though Issayas would prefer cash to buy on the open market: Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi has a poor reputation for reliability in arms supplies...

Even the unpredictable Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi has swallowed his loss of the Aouzou Strip in 1994...

Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi's claims to have resolved the Ethiopian-Eritrean border dispute (he had summoned both President Issayas Aferworki and Premier Meles Zenawi to Tripoli) were politely passed over but the Libyan leader still got some value for his US$3 million contribution to the summit...

He named six Libyans including Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi's brother-in-law Abdullah Senoussi...

President Nelson Mandela's 50-vehicle motorcade on its long journey from southern Tunisia to Tripoli (to avoid United Nations' flight sanctions) had Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi beaming...

He is well known to Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi and to President Nelson Mandela (he set up a school for South African orphans in the apartheid era) and has been friendly with French President Jacques Chirac since 1983...

Leaving no stone unturned Taylor travelled home via Libya where Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi – who had supported him during the civil war – is also short of foreign friends...

This was barely two weeks after Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi's government realised someone had leaked information to the United States Central Intelligence Agency about Tripoli's execution of opposition leader Mansur Kikhia...

The United States is not pleased that Jammeh gets help from Nigeria's General Sani Abacha and especially keeps close contact with Colonel Moammar el Gaddafi of Libya although Washington has politely ignored recent visits to Tripoli by more US-friendly regional leaders such as Mali's President Alpha Oumar Konaré...