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SADC irked by inaction on Libya

By Lugenzi Kabale, The Citizen, 25th Jul 2012  Failure by the African Union Commission under the leadership of former Gabonese top diplomat  Jean Ping angered  key members of the Southern African Development Community (Sadc). This factor has been cited as … Continue reading

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We Must Bury Imperialism in Africa or Perish

July 03, 2012 “Information Clearing House“ By Gerald A. Perreira Muammar Qaddafi is dead and the Al Fateh revolution has been rolled back. Two months after his death, on October 2011, the imperialists, in collaboration with the Salafists in Tripoli … Continue reading

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The imperial agenda of the US’s ‘Africa Command’ marches on

Dan Glazebrook, Guardian - 14/06/2012 With mission accomplished in Libya, Africom now has few obstacles to its military ambitions on the continent Dan Glazebrook, Guardian – 14/06/2012 “The less they see of us, the less they will dislike us.” So remarked Frederick … Continue reading

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Get Ready For War

Southern Times Africa Nambia’s Former President, Sam Nujoma, explains why Africa should prepare for military confrontation Windhoek – Africa should stand ready to take up arms to defend the continent’s sovereignty against “resurgent Western imperialist forces”, whose renewed resolve to … Continue reading

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Libya undecided on future of African investments

    NTC will reassess financial commitments made under Muammar Gaddafi before making further plans Mark Tran guardian.co.uk, Friday 27 January 2012 18.34 GMT Libya‘s new government is still taking stock of extensive investments made in Africa by the former … Continue reading

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‘Libya is like Somalia’

Indepth Africa/The Sunday Times Somali asylum seekers who fled Libya by boat and were brought to Malta last weekend tell Patrick Cooke that Africans still risk beatings and even death in post-Gaddafi Libya. Zakaria and a fellow Somali were exhausted … Continue reading

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The Vultures Circle Libya

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Recognizing the “Unpeople”

By Noam Chomsky January 08, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — On June 15, three months after the NATO bombing of Libya began, the African Union presented to the U.N. Security Council the African position on the attack – in reality, … Continue reading

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Against AFRICOM – Cynthia McKinney on GRTV

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Libya Remains Unstable After Ten Months of Imperialist War

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2011 By Abayomi Azikiwe Pan-African News Wire February 17 is the day when the enemies of the Libyan Jamahiriya government began their rebellion against the 42 year rule of Col. Muammar Gaddafi. Immediately the United States, Britain, … Continue reading

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African migrants suffer after Gaddafi’s fall

29/11/2011 Anti-Gaddafi fighters accused some black Africans of being paid to fight for Libya’s ousted leader Thousands of black African migrants living in Libya have been forced to leave the country by this year’s war. Their exodus has had a … Continue reading

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Paul Craig Roberts-Washington DC Will Make Libya A Puppet State

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As puppet NTC regime unravels imperialists seek to avoid culpability for destruction

By Abayomi Azikiwe Editor, Pan-African News Wire http://panafricannews.blogspot.com/2011/11/abayomi-azikiwe-editor-of-pan-african.html For the last nine months the United States and NATO war against the North African oil-producing state of Libya has destroyed the most prosperous country on the continent. The extent of the … Continue reading

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Oil & blood feuds in ‘liberated’ Libya – Sukant Chandan

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The Standard of Living in Libya – compilation of data, studies, articles and videos

When analysing the standard of living in Libya it is important to put the achievements into context. During the 1950’s under the leadership of King Idris, Libya was amongst the poorest nations in the world with some of the lowest … Continue reading

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Gaddafi remembered at prayers in Mali

[Extracts] Thousands of Muslims in Mali’s capital, Bamako, have held a special prayer service for killed ex-Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi. A huge of portrait Col Gaddafi hung at the entrance of the city’s main mosque, hailing him as a … Continue reading

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Black Libyans and migrant workers face racist attacks in ‘post-Gaddafi’ Libya

TRIPOLI — On the coast outside Tripoli, a squalid refugee camp shelters hundreds of African migrants who found work under Libya’s former regime, but are now jobless, discriminated against and unable to return home. Squatting in the derelict buildings of … Continue reading

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Murder of Gadhafi is next step to wider U.S. wars in Africa

Murder of Gadhafi is next step to wider U.S. wars in Africa Lynching in Libya – Made in U$A by Sara Flounders Global Research, October 24, 2011 The brutal lynching of Moammar Gadhafi, the leader of Libya, is the latest … Continue reading

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Many in Sub-Saharan Africa Mourn Qaddafi’s Death

By JOSH KRON     Published: October 22, 2011     Extracts NAIROBI, Kenya —, Many sub-Saharan Africans are mourning the death of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, celebrated as much for his largesse as for his willingness to stand up to the … Continue reading

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The Son of Africa Claims a Continent’s Crown Jewels

By John Pilger Africa is China’s success story. Where the Americans bring drones and destabilisation, the Chinese bring roads, bridges and dams. What they want is resources, especially fossil fuels. With Africa’s greatest oil reserves, Libya under Muammar Gaddafi was … Continue reading

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Libya and Imperialism: Dan Glazebrook, Lizzie Phelan, Harpal Brar

Dan Glazebrook (independent analyst), Lizzie Phelan (journalist), and Harpal Brar (politician and writer) provide much-needed analysis, counterpropaganda and polemic on ‘Libya, Africa and Imperialism’ in a public meeting. Phelan and Brar recently returned from Libya and provide substantial first hand … Continue reading

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Libya Media Front: ‘No NATO success without Al Jazeera’ – Sukant Chandan

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Venezuela addresses UN on the issues of Libya, Africa, Palestine and the collapsing economy

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Did The African Union Really “Recognize” NTC As Libya’s Government?

At both meetings, the African Union encouraged the Libyan stakeholders to form an all-inclusive transitional government that would work towards the promotion of national unity, reconciliation and democracy and urged the National Transitional Council (NTC) to protect all foreign workers, … Continue reading

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NATO-backed ‘rebels’ destroy mural depicting leaders of African Independence

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The role of Libya in African development

Burkino Faso The Burkinabe, as Burkina Faso’s residents are known, credit Gadhafi with starting banks, hospitals, university buildings, roads, mosques and women’s education centers. If Ouagadougou were a modern city, this sort of investment might be less conspicuous. But here, … Continue reading

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Libya Intensifies Resistance to NATO-led Occupation – Abayomi Azikiwe

Resistance by the loyalist forces in Libya has escalated with major clashes between supporters of the Gaddafi government and the U.S.-NATO financed rebel National Transitional Council (NTC). For over two weeks the western-backed leadership along with the imperialists have been … Continue reading

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Dan Glazebrook ‘Gaddafi’s Libya threatened Africa’s subordinate role’

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Migrants speak out against NATO intervention in Libya

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Niger govt denies large Libyan convoy in country

Tue Sep 6, 2011 8:28pm GMT NIAMEY, Sept 6 (Reuters) – Niger’s interior minister denied on Tuesday that hundreds of Libyan vehicles had crossed into the country, saying that, to his knowledge, only the head of Muammar Gaddafi’s security brigades … Continue reading

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