This support for Kabila has been entirely paid for by Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi of Libya (who was not invited to Paris  and complained)...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	    An attempt by Libya (AC Vol 39 No 21) to obtain rocket guidance systems has signalled that Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi's Al Fateh missile scheme may be quiescent but is not  as many believed  dead...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Having assiduously and unsuccessfully wooed Arab states during his 29 years in power  Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi is now courting Sub-Saharan governments...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 39 No 18 | 
            - ERITREA
 - ETHIOPIA
 
        
        
		
        
        
    
        
	
	     Libya has promised weapons  though Issayas would prefer cash  to buy on the open market: Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi has a poor reputation for reliability in arms supplies...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 39 No 13 | 
            - CAMEROON
 - CHAD
 
        
        
		
        
        
    
        
	
	     Even the unpredictable Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi has swallowed his loss of the Aouzou Strip in 1994...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi's claims to have resolved the Ethiopian-Eritrean border dispute (he had summoned both President Issayas Aferworki and Premier Meles Zenawi to Tripoli) were politely passed over but the Libyan leader still got some value for his US$3 million contribution to the summit...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 39 No 3 | 
            - LIBYA
 - RUSSIA
 
        
        
		
        
        
    
        
	
	     He named six Libyans  including Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi's brother-in-law Abdullah Senoussi...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	    President Nelson Mandela's 50-vehicle motorcade on its long journey from southern Tunisia to Tripoli (to avoid United Nations' flight sanctions) had Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi beaming...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     He is well known to Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi and to President Nelson Mandela (he set up a school for South African orphans in the apartheid era) and has been friendly with French President Jacques Chirac since 1983...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Leaving no stone unturned  Taylor travelled home via Libya  where Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi – who had supported him during the civil war – is also short of foreign friends...