• I noticed a custom license plate-no numbers-just a graphic of Libya's Muammar Gaddafi. (ramblinrandy.com)
  • According to a story that circulated in West Africa and the Sahel-given credence by an email sent by an "unofficial adviser" to former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton-one of the reasons why France's then-president Nicolas Sarkozy wanted to overthrow Libya's Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 was because the Libyan leader had proposed a new African currency instead of the CFA franc. (midwesternmarx.com)
  • c. 1942 - 20 October 2011), commonly known as Colonel Gaddafi , was a Libyan revolutionary, politician , and political theorist. (everipedia.org)
  • Kérékou seized power in Dahomey in a military coup on 26 October 1972, ending a system of government in which three members of a presidential council were to rotate power (earlier in the year Maga had handed over power to Justin Ahomadegbé). (wikipedia.org)
  • He was joined by Félix Houphouet-Boigny (Ivory Coast), Gnassingbé Eyadéma (Togo), Joseph-Désiré Mobutu (Zaire) and Hassan II (Morocco), who, in addition to the diplomatic isolation and attempts to destabilize Benin economically, decided to organize an attempted coup d'état. (wikipedia.org)
  • Within the military, he founded a revolutionary group which deposed the Western -backed Senussi monarchy of Idris in a 1969 coup. (everipedia.org)
  • In 1974, under the influence of young revolutionaries - the "Ligueurs" - the government embarked on a socialist program: nationalization of strategic sectors of the economy, reform of the education system, establishment of agricultural cooperatives and new local government structures, and a campaign to eradicate "feudal forces" including tribalism. (wikipedia.org)
  • Gaddafi transformed Libya into a new socialist state called a Jamahiriya ('state of the masses') in 1977. (everipedia.org)
  • I mean, when Western governments decide to attack an Arab or Muslim country, all claims are possible. (blogspot.com)
  • Born near Sirte, Italian Libya to a poor Bedouin family, Gaddafi became an Arab nationalist while at school in Sabha, later enrolling in the Royal Military Academy, Benghazi. (everipedia.org)
  • Strengthening ties to Arab nationalist governments-particularly Gamal Abdel Nasser's Egypt-he unsuccessfully advocated Pan-Arab political union. (everipedia.org)
  • Having taken power, Gaddafi converted Libya into a republic governed by his Revolutionary Command Council. (everipedia.org)
  • The Muslim Brotherhood are not seeking power," Mohammed Morsi, a member of the group's media office, said at a news conference. (blogspot.com)
  • Ethiopian State Media, EBC among others, had news coverage about the meeting. (blogspot.com)
  • The joint operations room for the western and southwestern regions' defence, has denied any intention to target the Amazigh or other components of Libya's society. (libyaobserver.ly)
  • Wlah is there any Western leader who has not flown to New York City to discuss the Syrian situation? (blogspot.com)
  • Alastair McPhail, "Her Majesty's Ambassador to Ethiopia" as described in the UK government site, is cited in the EBC report as saying that the meeting was on elevating UK-Ethiopia strategic partnership in peace, military and related areas. (blogspot.com)
  • The French government of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing feared the spread of Marxism in West Africa and decided to react. (wikipedia.org)
  • A few days before this statement, the French government cut official development assistance (ODA) to Mali because it believed that Mali's government is "allied to Wagner's Russian mercenaries. (midwesternmarx.com)
  • Kérékou began reversing course in the early 1980s, closing down numerous state-run companies and attempting to attract foreign investment. (wikipedia.org)
  • Also, does democracy have to include the ability of foreign governments to fund various groups in a country? (blogspot.com)
  • Bolton, who served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in the George W. Bush administration, was responding to an article in Foreign Policy magazine that quoted government sources claiming Israel had been granted access to airfields in Azerbaijan -- along Iran's northern border. (blogspot.com)
  • Ruling by decree, he deported Libya's Italian and Jewish minorities and ejected its Western military bases. (everipedia.org)
  • Its relations with France and other African governments in the region deteriorated because of the Marxism claimed by the Beninese regime and the support offered to the Polisario Front for the liberation of Western Sahara. (wikipedia.org)
  • Chaos has engulfed Libya since the 2011 NATO-backed ouster of dictator Muammar Gaddafi and rival administrations are being urged to sign up to a UN-brokered national unity government to help restore stability. (ahram.org.eg)
  • The Libya intervention of 2011 under false pretense of R2P followed by unlawful regime change deposing of dictator Gaddafi. (eurotrib.com)
  • El Confidencial and Fundación porCausa have analysed all published central government contracts related to migration, from January 2014 to April 2022. (braveneweurope.com)
  • A UN-supervised referendum on independence of Western Sahara was promised in 1992 but it was aborted by Morocco. (countercurrents.org)
  • The United Nations has been trying to oversee an independence referendum for Western Sahara since 1992 after a ceasefire was reached to end a war that broke out when Morocco sent its forces to the former Spanish territory in 1975. (ahram.org.eg)
  • While SADR claimed sovereignty over the Western Sahara territory, Morocco saw it as an integral part of its own territory. (countercurrents.org)
  • It seems that even in this 21st century the United States of America government does not respect the sovereignty of African states and the territorial integrity of the continent. (aalbc.com)
  • The "corruption" that is talked about in Niger is not about petty bribes by government officials, but about an entire structure-developed during French colonial rule-that prevents Niger from establishing sovereignty over its raw materials and over its development. (alternet.org)
  • Morocco left the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), precursor to the AU, in 1984 after the OAU recognised the right to self-determination and independence for the people of the Western Sahara and admitted the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) that was proclaimed in 1976 by the Sahrawi people's Polisario Front. (countercurrents.org)
  • Thus, rather than accept SADR's independence, Morocco left the OAU. (countercurrents.org)
  • The reinforcement of border controls on the Turkish and Libyan routes, as well as instability in the Sahel countries and problems with Morocco, which uses migrants as an instrument of pressure against the Spanish government, have increased migratory flows towards the Canary Islands and, to a lesser extent, the mainland. (braveneweurope.com)
  • Making progress on the situation in Western Sahara is also of importance here too,' he said, referring to Mauritania. (ahram.org.eg)
  • That year, more than 23,000 people arrived in cayuco and patera boats, most of them from Western Sahara under the control of Morocco, Mauritania and Senegal. (braveneweurope.com)
  • For decades Morocco made futile attempts to delegitimize SADR and Polisario. (countercurrents.org)
  • The UN chief also called for Mauritania's help in a territorial dispute between Morocco and a Western Sahara separatist group that has displaced tens of thousands in decades of fighting. (ahram.org.eg)
  • Morocco should also accept the AU Act which recognises African colonial boundaries, thus making its continued occupation of Western Sahara illegal. (countercurrents.org)
  • All this was thrust aside and Morocco was readmitted to the AU when 39 out of the 54 African member states voted for Morocco. (countercurrents.org)
  • Western Sahara thus remains the continent's last colonial outpost, occupied by another African state. (countercurrents.org)
  • Its relations with France and other African governments in the region deteriorated because of the Marxism claimed by the Beninese regime and the support offered to the Polisario Front for the liberation of Western Sahara. (wikipedia.org)
  • The internationally recognised government is based in the far east of the North African country. (ahram.org.eg)
  • The US government never approached Uganda or the African Union or its predecessor, the Organisation of African Unity, to ask how the United States could help. (aalbc.com)
  • The area of Western Sahara has been occupied by Morocco since 1976 when Spain pulled out and relinquished its claim as a colonial power over the territory. (countercurrents.org)
  • The ranking of the companies that have benefited most from government contracts in the area of migration includes some of the main Spanish and Ibex 35 companies. (braveneweurope.com)
  • undertaking for white plasmacytoma under server 8 of gap 5, United States Code, of the follicular area sent by Secretary of Health and Human Services admitting to AH with technology government scientists by centre ideas in looking rights. (4-buescher.de)
  • Ban said that his special representative Martin Kobler 'is facilitating talks on a national unity government' as 'we face the terrifying scourge of Daesh (IS) expanding in Libya and beyond its borders. (ahram.org.eg)
  • The information was compiled by Philip Ward, an oil company librarian that lived in Libya for 6 years. (blogspot.com)
  • In recent years, the government has reinforced its entire migration control deployment, from the Guardia Civil's maritime action vessels to the network of external surveillance radars, including the modernisation of the fences of Ceuta and Melilla, equipped with the latest technology. (braveneweurope.com)
  • A UN peacekeeping mission that was to organise the referendum has remained in the territory ever since, while Morocco built a 2,700km-long sand wall, with landmines. (countercurrents.org)
  • Spain's acting foreign minister, nominated to be the next high representative of the Union for foreign affairs and security policy, has built a reputation for speaking his mind and challenging authority over a four-decade career in some of the top jobs in Spanish and European politics. (eurotrib.com)
  • I told him that I believed China would become an enormous blessing to the entire world, once the Chinese people and government opened to the spiritual dimension, and opened their hearts. (lotusopening.com)
  • Kérékou began reversing course in the early 1980s, closing down numerous state-run companies and attempting to attract foreign investment. (wikipedia.org)
  • Proof of this is that the most numerous nationality in the last migration crisis at the gates of Melilla - which resulted in 23 deaths, according to Morocco, and 37 according to NGOs - was Sudanese. (braveneweurope.com)
  • Thus, before readmission Morocco should have accepted all the 33 Articles of the Constitutive Act of the AU with Western Sahara as a founding member. (countercurrents.org)
  • At the end of the day the Kingdom of Morocco managed to win over sufficient member states on its side and it was allowed to join the fold unconditionally. (countercurrents.org)
  • The AU's 55 member states, which include the disputed Western Sahara, have pressed for meaningful roles in the global bodies that long represented a now faded post-World War II order, including the United Nations Security Council. (aawsat.com)
  • Saharawi people, who fought Spanish colonial oppression, were now forced to fight Moroccan occupation. (countercurrents.org)
  • This included kidnapping hundreds of Ugandan children who he forced to join his army to fight the Ugandan government. (aalbc.com)