Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi

Some African leaders notably Senegal's Abdoulaye Wade and Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi are backing the putschists and have called for them to be given more time...

Chief among the celebrants this year will be Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi who in 40 years of power has traded his status as scourge of the United States and self-appointed leader of the Arab resistance for a new-found friendship with Western capital (AC Vol 49 No 24) and a role as informer-in-chief for the USA and Europe on Al Qaida and other Islamist movements...

LIBYA: Holding on to power Huge investment is promised in housing transport power and education to mark the 40th anniversary of Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi's 1 September 1969 coup...

Moammar el Gadaffi last June) have achieved only superficial reconciliation...

Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi who in 40 years of power has traded his status as scourge of the United States and self-appointed leader of the Arab resistance for a new-found friendship with Western capital (AC Vol 49 No 24) and a role as informer-in-chief for the USA and Europe on Al Qaida and other Islamist movements...

Libya's Moammar el Gadaffi Gabon's Omar Bongo Ondimba and Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe have served even longer...

Miskine is based in Tripoli and sources say that Moammar el Gadaffi supplies his weapons...

From the late 1980s presumably on United States' advice Moi had suspected Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi's motives and accused his government of funding dissidents in Kenya...

There is a long if surprising alliance between two very different African leaders: the puritanical President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni of Uganda and the extravagant Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi of Libya...

Libyan leader Moammar el Gadaffi told the AU that Kenya's problems would have been solved faster under a pan-African government with a continental defence ministry...

The summit duly condemned the Chadian rebels and sent as mediators three one-time coup-makers - Presidents Denis Sassou Nguesso of Congo-Brazzaville Blaise Compaoré of Burkina Faso and Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi of Libya (who once sent his tanks into Chad)...