Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi

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)...

He had written an opinion piece ahead of the African Union summit in Addis Ababa calling on African leaders to form one government as proposed by Libya's Moammar el Gadaffi and criticising South Africa and Kenya for delaying its formation...

Nothing came of a peace plan signed in October under the auspices of the Libyan leader Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi and supposed to involve Chad Sudan and their rebel movements...

Moammar el Gadaffi’s decision to ‘give up’ weapons of mass destruction and renounce terrorism (AC Vol 48 No 21) while cracking down on the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) and less deadly local rivals by making plans for a new Tripoli embassy and by flooding the ‘Jamahiriya’ (State of the Masses) with US oilmen...