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Libya

Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi

Date of Birth: 7 June 1942
Place of Birth: Sirte
Died: 20 October 2011


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Hillary Rodham Clinton

Addressing African Union leaders in Addis Ababa Clinton encouraged them to assist in the ousting of Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi – a major financial supporter of the AU – and to recognise the National Transitional Council...


Strategic depth charge

There the assembled delegates demanded an end to the violence and the departure of Libyan leader Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi...


What the doctor ordered

Muluzi a Muslim maintained a tight relationship with Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi who is also said to have given him more than $200 000...


Beijing and Delhi change tack

Beijing’s initial reaction had been to call for calm and avoid denunciations of Libyan leader Moammar el Gadaffi and his regime...


Solid foundations

Chinese traders in Tripoli are watching closely to see how the Western-led attacks on Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi’s regime will affect business in the short term...


Top in trade and investment

In December Libyan leader Moammar el Gadaffi said that Africa needs a million-man army to ‘confront NATO [the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation] and China’...


Sowing seeds

After catching the spy investigating the family of Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi Libya’s ties to North Korea and secret arms deals the Tripoli government expelled the South Korean in June and arrested two others who were then accused of Christian proselytising in a Muslim country...


Oil, money and infighting

Endemic corruption at the top Inquisitive African and European diplomats attending this week’s summit may be surprised by the lack of progress in Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi’s latest housing and infrastructure initiatives in Tripoli despite the billions of dollars of oil revenues allocated...

Moammar el Gadaffi famously took his government to task on corruption in 2008 when he proposed the abolition of all the ministries and the direct allocation of oil revenue to the people but he was thwarted by the government administration...


Gadaffi's Jacob and Esau

Its founding father Moammar el Gadaffi may be losing his hold over some of the imperial outposts but he remains the dominant political force blocking substantive reform...


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