Bush's government's 'axis of evil' but its international supporters see evidence that Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi's Jamahiriya ('state of the masses') is changing fast...
Tripoli argues that this pales into insignificance in the light of ex-MI5 officer David Shayler's revelations that British intelligence plotted with Libyan Islamists to assassinate Moammar el Gadaffi...
Moammar el Gadaffi wants Silvio Berlusconi to buy him a railway or a road...
Vol 43 No 22 |
- AFRICAN UNION
Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi who claims the AU as his own vision distorted by others offers an alternative home for the AU...
Though Central African Republic has now denied giving Libya a 99-year minerals lease Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi is certainly getting valuable strategic benefits from providing security for the Bangui government...
Another rumour was that Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi might help: he had charmed and amazed Swazis by handing out dollar bills and tee-shirts from his 100-car entourage during a visit in July...
The new constitution should create the post of head of state with Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi (see Features) keeping his title of 'Leader' but retiring from day-to-day government 'to his tent at Sirte' (AC Vol 42 No 14)...
In South Africa this week for the launch of the African Union he spoke up for Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi who in May paid Zambia's arrears to the AU's predecessor the Organisation of African Unity (OAU)...
Vol 43 No 14 |
- AFRICAN UNION
The reformers are led by South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo and Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade (even though their own reform records are less than stellar); the dissidents led by Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi are a motley collection of autocrats such as Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe Kenya's President Daniel arap Moi and Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh who style themselves as African nationalists opposed to foreign interference...
Senegal's Abdoulaye Wade may be less keen; ATT outranks him diplomatically and has better connections both to Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi and to Washington...