Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi

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...

The President has also accused an unnamed foreign state of sponsoring the trouble; more quietly Ugandan Intelligence officers point to Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi who initially backed Museveni and the NRM until they fell out over what Kampala saw as the Libyan leader's duplicitous role in Sudan and impractical schemes for a United States of Africa...

Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi: the 67-year old Brother Leader of the Revolution is still in complete command...

Mohamed el Gadaffi: the Leader's only son of his first marriage to Fatiha daughter of an officer in the army of King Idriss el Sanusi (whom Moammar el Gadaffi overthrew in September 1969) has no involvement in politics...

Libya's links to Gambia have flourished since Jammeh came to power; his predecessor Sir Dawda Jawara was deeply hostile to Moammar el Gadaffi...

RUF leader Foday Sankoh had been with Taylor in Libya in the late 1980s as both men prepared armed forces for wars in their respective countries with the support of their sponsor Libyan leader Moammar el Gadaffi...

According to opinion polls across Africa this month there is substantial popular support for the indictment of President Omer despite Libyan leader Moammar el Gadaffi's corralling of African leaders at the AU in opposition to it (AC Vol 50 No 14)...

Confident of backing from France Tandja can also count on support from the Chairman of the African Union Libya's Moammar el Gadaffi...

Mbeki spent some time battling Moammar el Gadaffi's plans for an immediate union government of Africa (AC Vol 50 No 12)...

Libya will become a more important bilateral partner: Zuma has worked closely with Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi over several years...

Paris seeks to establish new diplomatic mechanisms using different networks - such as its support for the efforts of African Union Chairman Jean Ping (Gabon's ex-Foreign Minister and Bongo's possible successor) Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi and Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa al Thani to broker a deal in Sudan's Darfur crisis...