Muammar Gaddafi

Libya: Divided and Ruled, by Foreign Capital

Giovanni Vimercati | Posted 26.04.2013 | UK Politics
Giovanni Vimercati

The reality is that since the fall of Gaddafi's regime, there hasn't been a single day of peace. Once NATO left and journalists returned to their home bureaus, the situation has steadily worsened. The disarmament plan and the reintegration of militias into the army have failed.

The Journalist's Dilemma of When to Record, What to Record and When to Help Is Now Everyone's

Krishnan Guru-Murthy | Posted 19.04.2013 | UK Entertainment
Krishnan Guru-Murthy

We've all got TV cameras in our pockets these days and television sucks up the material with glee. From filming a knife-wielding man tasered by police outside Buckingham Palace to the helicopter crash in London ordinary people are newsgathering extraordinary events everyday. Everyone's a journalist now: bearing witness and reporting it on Twitter and YouTube.

Gaddafi Torture Victim Receives £2.23m Settlement From British Government

The Huffington Post UK | Jessica Elgot | Posted 14.12.2012 | UK

A leading Libyan opponent of Colonel Gaddafi, forcibly returned to the north African country in a joint operation with the UK and US, where he was tor...

Charlie Lindlar

Gaddafi 'Killed By Grenade And Bayonet'

HuffingtonPost.com | Charlie Lindlar | Posted 17.10.2012 | UK

A new report into the final hours leading to Muammar Gaddafi's death nearly one year ago has claimed that the Libyan dictator was killed in captivity ...

WATCH: Graphic Video Of Gaddafi's Lifeless Body Being 'Operated' By Captors

The Huffington Post UK | Paul Vale | Posted 17.07.2012 | UK

Fresh video has emerged on YouTube purporting to show the lifeless corpse of Muammar Gaddafi being pulled around by rebel fighters on the day of his d...

Libya Stages First Free Elections In 50 Years

The Huffington Post UK | Charlie Lindlar | Posted 07.07.2012 | UK

The citizens of Libya are voting this weekend in the country's first free elections in half a century, following the fall of Muammar Gaddafi last year...

Libyan Deported After Fletcher Killing Seeks Political Asylum In UK

The Huffington Post UK | Paul Vale | Posted 29.06.2012 | UK

A man deported from Britain after the killing of Pc Yvonne Fletcher is now looking for political asylum in the UK. Saleh Ibrahim Mabrouk, once a hi...

Gaddafi Photos That Chronicle Tyrant's Reign On Show For First Time

The Huffington Post UK | Charlie Lindlar | Posted 18.06.2012 | UK

Photographs, documents and artefacts from the reign of Muammar Gaddafi are to go on display for the first time in London, giving a new perspective int...

The 'Cleaver' Who Fought Gaddafi With Pictures

The Huffington Post UK | Christopher York | Posted 08.11.2012 | Home

He is called Alsature, which in his native Arabic means ‘The Cleaver’. “A cleaver, it cuts meat and exposes. When you look at it you see the ...

Finally: The Moment Libya Mourned Yvonne Fletcher

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 25.05.2012 | UK

In one of the most significant diplomatic gestures since 1984 Libyan prime minister Abdurrahim El-Keib has made an historic visit to the spot where po...

The Biggest Crime on the Planet

Chris Morgan Jones | Posted 25.06.2012 | UK
Chris Morgan Jones

A year on from successfully having them frozen, the Egyptian state has yet to recover a penny of the £85 million of assets thought to belong to Hosni Mabarak in the UK. Staff at its specially established Illicit Gains Department, despairing of any prospect of cooperation from the UK Treasury, filed a lawsuit against it last month.

Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi Attacked In Custody

Posted 06.04.2012 | UK

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi's defence counsel have called for the son of former Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi to be moved to the Hague, saying that he is be...

Libyan Rebels Filmed Desecrating British War Graves (VIDEO)

PA | Posted 04.03.2012 | UK

The Libyan government has been "extremely apologetic" about the desecration of British war graves in the eastern city of Benghazi, a Foreign Office Mi...

Can the Arab Spring Spread Across the Rest of Africa?

Rachael Akidi | Posted 27.03.2012 | UK
Rachael Akidi

As the north African leaders were facing the music for their years of misrule, Uganda's Yoweri Museveni had a stern warning for the opposition in his country.

Gaddafi 'Loyalists' Seize Libyan Town Months After Liberation

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 24.03.2012 | UK

A band of around 150 fighters loyal to deceased former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi have seized the town of Bani Walid, according to reports. The ...

British Airways To Resume Flights To Libya

Huffington Post / PA | Michael Rundle | Posted 24.03.2012 | UK

British Airways is to resume flights to Libya in May, the airline announced, 15 months after they were suspended as the country descended into bloodsh...

What Next for the African Union in 2012?

Imad Mesdoua | Posted 29.02.2012 | Home
Imad Mesdoua

Africa's Unity depends largely on the ability of the continent to move forward in its development at the national level first. One African currency and a united political system will do little to bring the continent out of poverty if political elites at the national level remain corrupt and untrustworthy.

A Look Back At 2011 In Rhyme - Part 1

Dave Cohen | Posted 15.02.2012 | UK Comedy
Dave Cohen

Happy New Year everyone. Part 2 will follow soon. Ohh... Sama, You were Bin, and now you're gone, And I don't know if I can go on. Ohh... Sama, A...

Student Beats Professionals To Scoop Cartoon Of The Year

Huffington Post UK | Lucy Sherriff | Posted 21.12.2011 | UK Universities & Education

A budding art student's illustration has trumped thousands of professional drawings to win the political cartoon of the year. Ben Jennings, an unde...

PHOTOS: Dramatic Moment Gaddafi's Son Was Finally Captured

Huffington Post UK | Posted 20.01.2012 | UK

Photos have emerged of the moment Saif al-Islam Gaddafi was captured in Libya. The images were posted to the "February 17" website, and show the th...

Balls Defends Blair Government's Relationship With Gaddafi

Huffington Post UK | Peter Guest | Posted 20.11.2011 | UK

Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls has defended the former Labour government's relationship with the regime of the late Colonel Gaddafi, saying that they were...

First Picture Of Captured Saif Shows Gaddafi Son With Bandaged Hand

The Huffington Post UK | Stephen Hull | Posted 19.01.2012 | UK

The first picture of Colonel Gaddafi's captured son Saif al-Islam shows him sitting on a bed with a heavily bandaged hand. The grainy image was dis...

The Government's Un-British Plans to Keep Torture Secret

Cori Crider | Posted 17.01.2012 | UK Politics
Cori Crider

The reality is that new evidence on torture continues to bubble up - and William Hague's proposals on changes to the British justice system are designed not to address these abuses, but simply to keep them secret.

NTC Official: Gaddafi's Killer Will Be Prosecuted When Caught

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 30.12.2011 | UK

The person responsible for the death of former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi will be prosecuted, Libya's interim government has said. Abdel Hafiz...

Around The World In 80 Days

John Giacobbi | Posted 29.12.2011 | UK
John Giacobbi

It might have taken Phileas Fogg 80 days to circumnavigate the globe in Jules Verne's famous novel, but my holiday sojourn was sadly somewhat shorter.