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OTAN accused of migrants Death
According to the MIGREUROP’s report and press conference that took place in Paris this Thursday, 2012-11-09, five immigrants per day life-lost in 2011 in...
Resident in the city of Sirte in Libya implores for reconstruction
Thousands of buildings with collapsed walls and missing storeys in the Libyan city of Sirte still implore for renovation where Muammar Gaddafi made his...
Libya threatened by the Somalia Syndrome
The President of the Libyan supreme authority, Mustafa Abdul Jalil one of the credible personalities of TNC, is threatening to resign, following the Friday’s...
Uganda government still dealing with Libya
Uganda is still dealing with Libyan company although UN instructed that
Libya's property be confisicated because of Gaddafi's stand off.
Uganda government spokesman, Kabakumba Matsiko has...
British Police will quiz former Libyan Minister
The defected Libyan foreign minister, Moussa Koussa will be visited by British police in the next few days for questioning over what he knows...
Ugandan students stranded in Libya soon to be evacuated
Over 20 Ugandan students are stranded in the battle that hit Libya at the beginning of 2011.
According to the permanent secretary in the Ministry...
Libya: Uganda offers Muammar Gaddafi refuge
Uganda has freely offered embattled Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi refuge in Uganda as diplomats attempt to persuade the defiant leader to leave office without...
Pro-Gaddafi Africans protest as Coalition forces gain momentum
As world leaders met Tuesday in London to discuss the Libyan situation, hundreds of members of a group called Pan Africanists from Uganda and...
Of Western hypocrisy, Obdurate tyrants and Changing times
As the Bob Dylan song goes, the times they are “achanging”. But, do the lowly tyrants and dictators of our world, or those Western...
Libya’s oil promises amid Gaddafi defections
Libyan rebels certain of victory over Muammar Gaddafi and his forces have promised to begin exporting oil in less than a week. The rebel...
Libya: The dangers of leaving Gaddafi in power
The dangers of a post- 2011 revolution Libya with Muammar Gaddafi still in charge, the influence that Gaddafi’s violent resistance may have on other...
Social media and cyber-activism in North Africa’s revolution
As hundreds of thousands of Egyptians in Cairo’s Tahrir Square celebrated the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak on 11 February, some held up mobile...
Libya: Gaddafi and his Mali-Chad Tuareg mercenaries
As an international intervention to stop Colonel Muammar Gaddafi from committing further atrocities against Libyans continue, the north African country's leader remains impassive and...
Responsibility to Protect: A moral case for the U.S and its allies in Libya
Because somebody has to stand up against tyranny and oppressive governments, I disagree with the several African leaders who have parochially condemned the international...
Gaddafi writes to African leaders to intervene in Libya
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has reportedly written to several
African presidents requesting them to urge USA and its allies to stop
their air strikes on his...
Military Intervention in Libya and The other side of International Diplomacy
My bigger brother Desmond recounted an experience he once had in the city of Stuttgart where he is undertaking further studies in the field...
Libya: France gets ready to intervene militarily
The propensity for a military intervention in Libya is at its highest, and while the motive is simply to stop Libyans' legitimate aspiration for...
Libya: Light at the end of tunnel for freedom fighters
Muammar Gaddafi’s government has warned the international community that any attack on Libya would threaten air and sea traffic in the Mediterranean after it...
Libya: Towards Sudan’s Darfur type conflict?
Increasing civilian casualties in the conflict between Libya’s government forces and freedom fighters has led observers to classify Libya as the next Sudan. Authorities...
Libya: U.S, Germany, China and Russia not ready for war
United States President Barrack Obama has remained defiant to pressure demanding him to recognize the Libyan rebel council as a legitimate government and support...
Libya’s failing revolution
Muammar Gaddafi is on the verge of thwarting the three-week old revolution in Libya as his troops and mercenaries continue to reclaim areas initially...
Gaddafi’s “grave secret” threat triggers French internet craze
Following Nicolas Sarkozy's acknowledgment of the leadership of the Libyan rebel movement, the National Libyan Council, as the country’s legitimate government, Gaddafi's regime has...
Finding Gaddafi’s hidden fortune
The Gaddafi clan's opaque financial empire has been ingeniously created by virtue of a complex fragmentation of accounts and investments; A strategy designed to...
Gaddafi regime’s “last stand” mentality
Stefan Simanowitz looks at the ‘responsibility to protect’ principle and assesses the extent to which the ICC referral might have back fired.
On 26th...
Libyans, Black-Africans and Gaddafi’s divisive power struggle
Numerous Black African mercenaries, reportedly bankrolled by Muammar Gaddafi to quell Libya's popular revolt, have taken part in the bloody crackdown by the north...
Libya: International community to arm Libya opposition
The international community headed by Washington has considered arming the Libyan opposition to defend themselves against the Indifferent Muammar Gaddafi who continues to utilize...
Libya: Muammar Gaddafi won’t budge, civil war looms
Libyan strong man Muammar Gaddafi appears to be winning his battle against the people’s revolution after enervating protesters with series of air strikes and...
Libya: International forces close in on Muammar Gaddafi
International naval and air forces have positioned around Libya in a bid to force the Libyan strong man out of office. Washington has frozen...
Libya: Gaddafi regime and protesters killing migrant workers
As the propensity for civil war heightens in Libya, citizens of poorer nations trapped in the crisis and terror shaking the North African country...
Contingency plans to protect civilians in Libya
In two, coordinated initiatives a coalition of over 200 Arab organisations and a group of over thirty prominent intellectuals from across the Middle East...