Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi

Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi excused his absence through Mali's President Amadou Toumani Touré who was effulgent towards Chirac while - in a conference workshop - Somalia's Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi raised some eyebrows by speaking of his country as in a 'post-conflict situation'...

Algeria Morocco and Tunisia have little enthusiasm for the Islamist regime and Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi ostentatiously sided with Chadian leader Idris Déby Itno in his increasingly personal dispute with Khartoum...

Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi is not losing his zest for power or for playing the international wild card...

France is also relying improbably on Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi...

When diplomatic relations between Chad and Sudan broke down in April Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi picked up the slack representing Chad's interests in Sudan and vice-versa...

At talks hosted by Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi in his tent pitched in the grounds of N'djamena's new Libyan-built Kempinski Hotel Déby and Sudan's President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir agreed to resume diplomatic ties...

Bemba's allies who have links with Libya's Moammar el Gadaffi say they have equally disturbing accounts of French operations in CAR...

Ahmadinejad's convoy of support vehicles and a stretched US army jeep cruised around Banjul rivalling even Libyan leader Moammar el Gadaffi's extravagant caravan which had driven from Dakar...

To drum up funds Zuma visited the Libyan leader Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi last November; the 'Brother Leader' despises Mbeki and along with Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has tried to frustrate the South African leader's African ambitions...

The greatest achievement of Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi's regime has been since Chad broke diplomatic relations with Sudan on 14 April to acquire responsibility for Sudanese interests in Chad and Chadian interests in Sudan...