Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi

In late August Algeria took in Moammar el Gadaffi’s wife Safia along with three of his children: his oldest son sports and telecommunications supremo Mohamed 41 who was born to his first wife Fatiha; ship owner Hannibal el Gadaffi 36 whose problems with the British French and Swiss authorities have made him infamous; 35-year-old daughter Aisha el Gadaffi a lawyer and some grandchildren...

Subsequently on 31 August a report in the Algiers daily El Watan (sometimes a conduit for Major General Mohamed ‘Tawfik’ Medienne’s Département du Renseignment et de la Sécurité (DRS) intelligence service) said that Moammar el Gadaffi had also tried to cross the border at Ghadames with his family but had been blocked...

It must also court governments worried by the old connection to former leader Moammar el Gadaffi to make sure they don’t liquidate – or expropriate – Libya’s holdings in haste...

Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani signed the deal during an official visit to Tripoli when he was still on speaking terms with Moammar el Gadaffi...

Just as Mozambique’s Resistência Nacional Moçambicana threatens to return to violence the man who championed it at the height of its atrocities has surfaced in papers found in the offices in Libya of Moammar el Gadaffi’s fallen Prime Minister El Baghdadi Ali el Mahmoudi...

With its victory over the forces of Moammar el Gadaffi this week the Transitional National Council (TNC) has proved it has more staying power than suggested by its initial hesitant appearance at the head of the insurrection...

Yet as South Sudan struggles over six weeks after Independence to form a new government the NCP faces its own struggle – to avoid the fate of Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi...

In March South Africa voted at the UN Security Council for a ‘no-fly zone’ over Libya only weeks after it had backed calls for the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate abuses by Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi’s regime...

The offensives by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and the brave but shambolic Transitional National Council fighters show no sign of overwhelming Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi’s forces...

France and the USA worked closely on last year’s Guinean and Ivorian election crises as they do on military operations against the regime of Libya’s Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi...

As the rebel war to drive Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi from power stretches out public support for the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation’s intervention is weakening...

The Algerian government in particular claims that the Libyan conflict has strengthened Al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb with Islamist networks in eastern Libya providing AQIM with men and weapons – just one reason why Algiers fears the consequences of the fall of Moammar el Gadaffi...