Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi

The lake in Benghazi city centre beside which its two main hotels stand epitomises Moammar el Gadaffi’s neglect of the east...

The potential for the control of mobile telephones and the web was revealed when militias seized the secret police surveillance centre of Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi’s regime in Tripoli last August...

The killing of Moammar el Gadaffi alarmed the government which still refuses to recognise Libya’s National Transitional Council...

The biggest of these is the demonstration effect: the overthrow of leaders such as Hosni Mubarak Zine el Abidine Ben Ali and Moammar el Gadaffi has reinforced the determination of Africans to oust autocratic and incompetent regimes...

Increasingly conscious of its image abroad Beijing got its more robust diplomats to defend its support for Libya’s Moammar el Gadaffi last year and Syria’s Bashar al Assad this year...

Chinese companies had some US$20 billion in housing railway and telecommunications contracts with Moammar el Gadaffi’s regime; the projects are now war-scarred and neglected...

Salafist fighters showed their mettle during the conflict to overthrow Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi but how electors will reward that is unknown; the conventional wisdom is that the jihadists will remain a minority...

A wild card has been thrown into the mix with the return from Libya of hundreds of heavily-armed Tuareg fighters who had been serving Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi...

‘We had a powerful degree of commitment with Moammar Gadaffi...

Never one of Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi’s allies (he once called for Nigeria to be broken up) Abuja spoke in favour of UN action pushing South Africa into a corner...

Both men were staunch oppositionists who followed academic careers in the United States and neither had any dealings with the regime that Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi led for 42 years...