Sheikh Hamad as fabulously rich in political connections as in money from Qatar's huge gas reserves played a crucial role in Libya (where his protégés include the heavy-hitters Ali Mohamed el Sallabi and Abdel Hakim Belhadj see Feature Brothers unbound)...
Belhadj is reckoned to have 3 000 men under his command and he is an ally of Qatar-based Libyan Sheikh Ali Mohamed el Salabi an Islamist scholar close to the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG)...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 8 |
- TURKEY
- AFRICA
At the 18 April Turkey-Sudan Trade Bridge meeting in Antalya Ali Mohamed Dafallah of the Sudanese Businessmen and Employers Federation declared that with Turkish technology Sudan could feed itself and countries in the region...
The Vice-President of Zanzibar the CCM's Ali Mohamed Shein won its presidency...
However following June’s meeting in Addis Ababa of the Nile Council of Ministers (Nile-COM) Sudan’s Irrigation and Water Resources Minister Kamal Ali Mohamed declared: ‘We are freezing activities regarding the NBI until these issues these legal implications are resolved...
As ministers argued in a press conference after the Nile Basin Initiative meeting Sudan’s water minister Kamal Ali Mohamed announced that his country would be suspending cooperation with the World Bank-backed initiative which promotes regional cooperation over the use of the Nile’s waters for irrigation and hydropower projects...
The ICC on 25 May referred Sudan to the UN Security Council for ‘non-cooperation’: its failure to apprehend Harun and his fellow indictee Janjaweed militia leader Ali Mohamed Ali Abdel Rahman (aka ‘Ali Kusheib’)...
Vol 50 No 25 |
- EAST AFRICA
Ali Mohamed Hasan (‘Ali Madobe’); the army chief Gen...
Vol 50 No 19 |
- LIBYA
- BRITAIN
Britain's release of convicted terrorist Abdelbaset Ali Mohamed al Megrahi has prompted widespread criticism (especially from Washington) but Whitehall officials judged it worth the price of closer security ties with Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi's regime and commercial gains...
Widely seen as the man behind the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 108 over Lockerbie he visited Scotland at least twice to meet officials over the release of the man convicted of that bombing Abdelbaset Ali Mohamed el Megrahi...