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How Gaddafi bankrolled Africa
Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, in Rome, August 30, 2010. ANDREAS SOLARO / AFP Nicolas Sarkozy and three former French ministers are among the defendants who have been on trial since Monday ...
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Former French president Sarkozy goes on trial over alleged €50 million Gaddafi pact
Former French President Nicholas Sarkozy went on trial on Monday on charges he accepted some 50 million euros in illegal campaign financing from late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Sarkozy ...
The Africa Report1mon
In Libya’s second revolution, Gaddafi’s fall gave hope to the Amazigh and other minorities
In power in Libya for 42 years, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi used the country’s oil billions to sponsor insurgencies across Africa and repress his own people. His legacy was political chaos and a civil war ...
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French police hold ex-president Sarkozy over 'Gaddafi funding'
Mr Sarkozy (left) clinched big trade deals for France with Libya's Gaddafi in 2007 when he was ... funding from the late Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi. Police are investigating alleged ...
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Libyan Jews whose graves were bulldozed under Gaddafi are remembered in Rome
Almost all of Libya’s Jewish cemeteries — save one built on the grounds of an Italian-run concentration camp — were bulldozed during the reign of Muammar Gaddafi, the eccentric strongman who ...
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Saadi Gaddafi: Son of Libya's ex-leader freed from Tripoli jail
The son of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has been freed from prison where he had been held since 2014. Saadi Gaddafi - a former commander of Libya's special forces - was famous for ...