Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi

Support for the new Government of National Accord (GNA) is the only strategy which Western governments can countenance to create a viable post-Moammar el Gadaffi state from an atomised mess of rival tribal and ideological groups and to eliminate Da'ish and criminal gangs from Europe's southern flank (AC Vol 57 No 2 A cure that could kill)...

The United States Special Operations Command Africa's Brigadier General Donald Bolduc has confirmed US forces are working with a small Libyan SF unit loyal to the Tobruk HoR which was established after Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi's fall in 2011...

It is often forgotten that the division between GNC-Libya Dawn (Fajr Libya) and HoR-Operation Dignity was not based on religious ideology but on differing views of whether officials who served under the late Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi should be allowed to take part in running the new Libya even though his persecution of Islamists meant they were better represented in the new GNC...

The UAE joined the coalition that helped to overthrow Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi in 2011 (AC Vol 52 No 17 Gadaffi falls revolution rises)...

Diendéré also holds the secrets of Compaoré's relations with Libya's late Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi and Liberia's gaoled ex-President Charles Taylor...

As revenue from oil exports has slumped to approximately a quarter of its annual maximum during the last years of Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi's era El Kabir is liquidating the CBL's foreign currency reserves to pay the bills...

The Wall Street Journal reported in December that Ajami was under investigation by the United States Department of Justice and the Securities Exchange Commission over a placement fee paid to the Libyan Investment Authority at the time of Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi (AC Vol 55 No 7 Libya links worry Wall Street)...

The first includes six factions of the Libyan-backed (by the late Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi) Sudan Liberation Revolutionary Forces: SLA-Field Leadership; SLA-Unity (2); SLA-Juba (2); SLA-Khamis Abdullah Abaker (AC Vol 45 No 10 A rebel's story); SLA-Mainstream; United Revolutionary Forces Front...

So far the Dirna-based Wilayat Barqa appears to have gathered the most support and has firm control over a number of key residential neighbourhoods in the town which was the centre of militant Islamist resistance to the late Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi...

On 2 March Parliament in Tobruk confirmed Haftar who supported the late Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi until 1987 as Army Commander and he was promoted Lieutenant General (AC Vol 55 No 11 Enter the General)...

Haftar a retired general who took part in Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi's coup in 1969 was captured by Chadian forces in 1987 and then spent two decades in the United States...