Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi

Planned increases in government spending on infrastructure and services will remain mired in an overloaded decision-making process which has atrophied to the point of incapacity thanks to decades of Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi’s patronage imperatives and his micro-management of contract awards...

The stalemate over UN involvement in Syria is due in part to China's acceptance of a United States-backed UN Security Council resolution that provided cover for the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation to intervene and support the rebels who overthrew Libya's Moammar el Gaddafi in 2011...

The fall of Libya’s Moammar el Gaddafi was a wake-up call both for Beijing and for Chinese companies operating in high-risk environments...

Opposed to international intervention in Syria and highly critical of the Franco-British military support for the Libyan rebels who toppled Moammar el Gadaffi Beijing is struggling to respond to the Mali crisis in a way that reflects its distrust of an expeditionary Western foreign policy but without alienating the African goodwill it has worked so hard to build up...

He advocated a no-fly zone over Libyan airspace during the 2011 popular uprising against Moammar el Gadaffi and called on the State Department to end its support for Egyptian ex-President Hosni Mubarak...

One reason why the regional partisans of Cyrenaica (in Arabic Barqa) are getting stronger is that there has been no economic development or investment in the two years since the region freed itself from Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi’s rule...

He says African leaders should focus on problems such as Western powers’ encroachment on African space as in the toppling of Libyan leader Moammar el Gadaffi and the French-backed military intervention in Côte d’Ivoire after President Laurent Gbagbo refused to leave power...

The arrears of states such as Congo-K Libya (in the last years of Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi once a major financier) and Somalia stood at $43 mn...

In June the Supreme Court overturned one such decision: a law making the glorification of the late Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi’s era a criminal offence...

These members had launched a non-violent protest group called the Mouvement national pour l’Azawad (MNA) in 2010 before throwing in their lot with the Tuareg fighters who returned from Libya as Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi’s regime disintegrated last year...