Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi

Ravalomanana has sent an envoy to Tripoli to seek help from Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi who has recently mediated in conflicts in Chad and the Central African Republic...

Kabbah has also courted Taylor's old friends in Libya; his right-hand man former Foreign Minister Sama Banya has visited Tripoli and Kabbah himself met Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi in November...

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The Mugabe government will increasingly rely on friends such as Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi for economic and political survival...

In early March Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi separately hosted the Moroccan Prime Minister Abderrahmane el Youssoufi and the head of King Mohammed's office Mohamed Rachdi Chraibi who also met Tunisia's President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali on 11 March...

Oil diplomacy also benefits Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi whose tentative opening of the Libyan oil and gas industry has won him partial rehabilitation in Europe (although to the oil majors' frustration the US Congress insists on maintaining sanctions)...

In spite of the complications of the Lockerbie trial appeal Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi's careful response to the attacks of 11 September will help to speed the Jamahiriya's reintegration into the world economy...

The state has no record of his visits to Libya until after 1992 but he claims to have visited it from 1988 onwards and that Libyan agents helped Pretoria develop its chemical weapons programme (although Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi has long expressed support for the African National Congress)...

Officials close to Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi are believed to have been in contact with Togoïmi in April...

Mubarak has praised the cooperation of Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi's government with the campaign against terrorism meaning that Tripoli and Cairo agree to exchange each other's dissidents...