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Libya Unstable After the Departure of Qaddafi

While the hated dictator Muammar Qaddafi is dead and gone, the people of Libya still suffer as instability deepens and eastern Libya increasingly acts semi-autonomously in a movement led by former Libyan army officer Idris al-Rahel. The region’s top tribal leaders convened in Benghazi to plan a unilateral move toward statehood with only a loose […]

The Rise of Qatar: How a Tiny Emirate in the Middle East is Turning the Arab Spring to Its Advantage.

Qatar is probably best known in the west as the home of media outlet Al Jazeera and perhaps secondly as a less grand, Dubai-esque sheikdom in the Middle East. Recent events in the Middle East such as the uprising against Bashar al-Assad in Syria, the fall of Qaddafi in Libya and the toppling of Mubarak […]

Chinese Foreign Direct Investment in Africa: Scaling Back Expectations?

The Arab Spring has unsettled more than just the political establishment in the Middle East with dictators in Africa falling to change as well. Events like the fall of Muammar Qaddafi’s regime and Michael Sata’s ascendency in Zambia have upset the traditional stability African leadership has enjoyed for decades – a stability that is both […]

Gaddafi Dead: Dictator Killed Near His Hometown of Sirte.

Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril of the National Transitional Council informed reporters in Tripoli today that Gaddafi, hated former dictator of Libya, had been killed in action near his hometown of Sirte. Gaddafi was allegedly shot in the head in a drainage ditch while begging for his life. Video of the felled dictator being dragged through […]

Interpol wants Qaddafi.

As the collapse of Muammar Qaddafi’s regime enters its last days, Interpol has issued a ‘red notice’ on Qaddafi, his son Seif al-Islam and Abdullah al-Senussi, his former chief of Libya’s intelligence agency. Convoys of high-level Libyan officials fleeing into Niger continue unabated, as more loyalists abandon the flailing regime. The government of Niger will […]

Qaddafi delivers radio address to loyalists.

Aired on Syrian-based Al-Rai tv, Qaddafi’s audio message vows to fight on, that he will not leave Libya and his enemies are all cowards. Basically, everything you expect to hear from a dictator facing the gallows. Earlier rumors that Qaddafi had taken refuge in neighboring Niger are refuted in the tape, and although no one […]

The divorce gets ugly: Qaddafi’s intelligence chief was fed information about dissidents by the US CIA and the UK’s MI6.

Moussa Koussa, Libya’s chief spy and foreign minister, has been fed information from the CIA and MI6 according to the non-governmental organization Human Rights Watch. Moussa, who is now in exile in London, apparently exchanged reams of diplomatic cables with the CIA and MI6. Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, in an effort to draw […]

Libyan Rebels Storm Bab al-Aziziya compound, Qaddafi’s whereabouts unknown.

Saif al-Islam, the purported caputred son of falling Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi, is actually not in the custody of the rebels, not that it matters now. The compound Bab al-Aziziya has been captured by Libyan rebels, signaling the denouement of this heroic struggle to overthrow a dictator. With the embassy in DC now representing the […]

Qaddafi making plans to leave Libya? Exile in Tunisia?

According to this latest report from MSNBC, Muammar Qaddafi, unrepentant dictator of Libya for many decades, is possibly planning his exile in neighboring Tunisia, making him yet another dictator to be toppled this year. Although nothing is definite, official in US intelligence expect this transition could occur within the next couple of days. As anyone […]