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Thabo Mbeki is right on NATO’s Intervention in Libya

September 19, 2011 Global Author

While NATO and the rebels were pummelling Libya and capturing Tripoli, on the 26th August 2011, President Thabo Mbeki addressed the SRC and SASCO of the University of Stellenbosch (US) to explain his take on the "historic events" in North Africa. . . Read More

South Africa’s Libya policy – Ebrahim Ebrahim

September 18, 2011 Global AuthorAfrica against Nato, Libya, Obama

Deputy minister says situation in that country reflects a failure to transform global governance Speech by Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Mr Ebrahim I Ebrahim, on the occasion of a Public Lecture on "Libya, the United Nations, the African Union and South Africa: Wrong moves? Wrong motives?" Pretoria University . Read More

Venezuela’s Chavez sees cautionary tale in Libya

September 18, 2011 Global AuthorChavez, Gadhafi, Libya, Libya Rebels, NATO, Robert Mugabe

CARACAS, Venezuela (AGV) — When Moammar Gadhafi made his first and only visit to South America in 2009, President Hugo Chavez praised his longtime friend as "the liberator of Libya," talked politics inside his Bedouin tent and presented him with Venezuela's highest award. . Read More

Zimbabwe: African Union’s Decision on Libyan NTC Noble

September 18, 2011 Global AuthorAfrica Union, AU, Captain Moussa Dadis Camara in Guinea, Libya, Libya Rebels, NATO, NTC

opinion This refusal opened floodgates of criticism from various corners of the world. Some sections accused the continental body of being out of sync with the so-called winds of democracy that are currently sweeping through the continent.Others opined that the AU's decision was largely informed by some African leaders who, like the beleaguered Brother Leader Muammar Gaddafi, were facing similar... Read More

zimbabwe:Daggers drawn on Mugabe succession

September 17, 2011 Global AuthorJoice Mujuru, Robert Mugabe, Solomon Mujuru, Zimbabwe

HE was a hero of Zimbabwe's revolution, a legendary guerilla fighter revered in local lore with the sort of reverence that Cubans reserve for Che Guevara. Most important, he was, as a prominent member of the ruling ZANU-PF party puts it, "the only person who could stand up to Robert Mugabe", a restraining influence on the old tyrant's excesses, a... Read More

Hamas stresses resistance to liberate Palestine

September 17, 2011 Global Author

DAMASCUS, Sept. 17 -- The Damascus-based Islamic Hamas movement said Saturday the Palestinian authority's decision to seek statehood at the United Nations was made unilaterally and resistance is the genuine road to liberate all Palestinian lands occupied by Israel. . Read More

Hillary Clinton:Smart Power Approach to Counterterrorism

September 17, 2011October 20, 2016 Global AuthorHillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton Remarks, Obama, US

SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you. Thank you very much, President Travis. And it is, for me, a great personal pleasure to be in this new facility for John Jay. I had the opportunity to visit John Jay when it wasn’t quite as light-filled as this atrium is but knowing that it was always fulfilling its mission. And to come back here... Read More

“Don’t let ‘oil rush’ gets the better of you”

September 16, 2011 Global Author

Namibia’s rich offshore oil finds, estimated to be in the tens of billions of barrels, could be promising, but not as yet, say economists.A group economist and industry advisor of Capricorn Investment Holdings (CIH), Rowland Brown, warns; “it seems a little early to be lighting the candles and cutting the cake”. Brown made the sobering statement in his latest regular... Read More

African patriots learn from Libyan conflict

September 16, 2011 Global AuthorLibya, NATO

{jacomment on}True African patriots must learn a lesson from the Libyan conflict. One is that the African armies must truly prepare to defend Africa militarily; it is a shame that no single NATO jetfighter or missile was shot down during the seven month campaign in Libya. Second is that African governments must never bank their money and other assets in… Read More

Western media biased against Gaddafi

September 15, 2011 Global AuthorAU, Libya, Media Biase against gaddafi, NATO

With the destruction of all means of communications in Libya by NATO, we in the southern hemisphere are left with no other option but to accept the one sided and well orchestrated propaganda about the so-called “atrocities” committed by Colonel Muammar Gaddafi during his 42 years of dictatorship. . Read More