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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...
Experts and Gibberish in the Ethiopian, Egyptian, Tunisian, Libyan and Western context
The poetic rhetoric of some American officials in the face of complex political issues tend bring gist to the mill of the satirist. “Some...
Libya: Gaddafi turns to son’s special forces and foreign mercenaries
Col Muammar Gaddafi has turned to a special military unit controlled by his son and mercenaries allegedly from Zimbabwe to aid his battle against...
Botswana warns Libya amid suspected Zimbabwe mercenaries
Botswana, a small Southern African nation has threatened to cut all diplomatic ties with strife-torn Libya while its neighbour, Zimbabwe, is
suspected of having mercenaries...
Libya’s Gaddafi ‘Ordered Lockerbie Bombing’
Libyan dictator, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, did order the Lockerbie bombing of the Pan Am 103 Flight that killed 270 people in Scotland, United Kingdom,...
Libya: Independence for the east?
There are indications that Eastern Libya is now independent of Libya. Reports emanating from the city of Benghazi suggest that every element of Col...
Qaddafi pays Mariah Carey $1 million to sing
WikiLeaks cables also claim that Beyonce and Usher performed at a family function.
The Qaddafi family paid Mariah Carey $1 million to sing only four...
Libya: Gaddafi’s national address marks his end
It is difficult to exactly comprehend the logic in Muammar Gaddafi’s defiant speech on Tuesday Februar 22- his first major speech since unrest began...
Libya: Violent plans by military alerted as death toll rises
The United Nations and the United States have condemned plans by the Libyan military to cleanse Libya of anti-government elements. The military has described...
Libya: The Gaddafis in panic mode?
The political ‘revolution’ that changed Egypt and Tunisia continue to sweep through the rest of North Africa and the Middle East as Libyan protesters...
Libyans struggle to pull off Tunisian and Egyptian success
Though the Facebook group which urged the “Day of Anger” protests on Thursday had more than 22,000 followers, events in Libya influenced by the...
Libya stifles protests with pro-government rallies on TV
Human rights groups have warned Libyans that an all-out protest against President Muammar Gaddafi may result in human right abuses and crimes against humanity...
Libya, Algeria, Yemen, Bahrain, who’s Arab world’s next?
The successful revolt in Tunisia under the autocratic regime of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali who had ruled for 23 years inspired confidence in...
When revolution rocks North Africa and the Middle East
The wave of revolt currently rocking the foundations of the Afro-Arab world is unstoppable. Algeria, Morocco, Sudan, Mauritania ... Encouraged by the Tunisian...
A domino effect in the Arab world after Tunisia?
The Tunisian revolt has created high hopes in the Arab world, which has long since been weaned from freedom and democracy. Will Arab countries...
Teaming up with Egypt for the Nile – Sudan, a nation divided
The third in our series of articles about Sudan's pending referenda looks at the vile treatment that the people of Southern Sudan have receive...
NAPEO: A new North African and U.S. partnership
After meeting with government officials and entrepreneurs throughout North Africa, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Business Affairs Jose Fernandez, says...
Gaddafi’s position on Africa versus Wikileaks
Caught between embarrassment, anger and confusion, African leaders have so far failed to react to the damaging revelations from WikiLeaks, the controversial whistle-blower website....
Gaddafi’s case for one African army
One-Africa advocate, Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi has urged the African continent to assemble a one-million-strong defense force capable of defending itself from China and...
Libya: Sudan president out of Africa-European summit
The African Union has decided to exclude Sudan President Omar Al-Bashir from the forth-coming European Union-African Union summit in order to prevent a protest...
Of Gaddafi and Arab racism towards Blacks
"We don't know what will happen, what will be the reaction of the white and Christian Europeans faced with this influx of starving and...
Zimbabwe: Purpose of Gaddafi visit unclear
Libyan president Muammar Gaddafi's son, Lieutenant-Colonel Engineer Saadi Muammar al-Gaddafi and his entourage were on Thursday detained at Harare International Airport for two hours...
Libya tears United States and United Kingdom apart
A U.S. Senate hearing over the release of the Libyan spy, Abdel Basset al-Megrahi scheduled for Thursday was postponed after "key witnesses" failed to...
Gaddafi continues push for United States of Africa
Amidst the issues of the African Union offensive in Somalia and an international arrest warrant against Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir at the just ended...
Libyan-Gaza-Israel Amalthea aid ship standoff as it happened
Amalthea, a ship chartered by the Libyan Gaddafi Foundation to deliver food and medicine to the Palestinian people who have been under Israeli naval...
Libya pledges strong ties with Sudan as border closes
Sudan's decision to close its borders with Libya took effect on Thursday. Khartoum is seeking the expulsion of rebel leader Khalil Ibrahim, who heads...
Libya and Spain discuss controversial immigration pact
Libya and Spain have met ahead of an African and European summit to discuss the development of Africa and the control of illegitimate immigration...