Since the fall of Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi no public facilities have been maintained including the two dams at Derna and no emergency plans were in place...
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Rescue efforts are being held up by the poor state of infrastructure in the region worsened by a decade of conflict between rival militias and political partition in the wake of the overthrow of Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi in 2011...
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He is now operating from Sirte the hometown of Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi...
Vol 63 No 7 |
- AFRICA
- EUROPE
Some have resurrected Nelson Mandela's response when asked on US television why he had met with Yasser Arafat Fidel Castro and Moammer el Gadaffi: 'One of the mistakes that some political analysts make is to think that their enemies should be our enemies'...
Vol 63 No 6 |
- RUSSIA
- AFRICA
And NATO's no-fly zone backed by the UN Security Council was widely seen as using the widely supported 'Responsibility to Protect' imperative as cover to topple Moammar el Gadaffi's regime in 2011...
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Vol 63 No 5 |
- RUSSIA
- AFRICA
Kenya's ambassador to the UN Martin Kimani delivered a powerful condemnation of Russia's actions last week but also threw in a critique of NATO's intervention in Libya in 2011 which triggered the fall of Moammer el Gadaffi plunging the country into further chaos...
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Almost immediately dozens of potential candidates lined up the most improbable of whom was among the first to declare – Seif el Islam el Gadaffi the second son of deceased dictator Moammar el Gadaffi...
Saïed's notions of a locally-focused 'elevatory democracy' – with uncomfortable echoes of Moammar Gaddafi's 'popular committees' and wartime rule by Benito Mussolini's corporatist state in Italy – are unlikely to deliver...
Nonetheless he appears to believe like Moammar el Gadaffi before him that Libyans want him...
Southern supporters of the former regime threatened to turn off the Moammar el Gadaffi era 'Great Man-Made River' water supply to Tripoli if the GNU did not release Abdullah el Senussi the former dictator's brother-in-law and intelligence chief who like Saif el Islam is wanted by the ICC for crimes against humanity (AC Vol 57 No 14 Gadaffi's desperate bid)...
