Gaddafi

Nigeria
Abuja looks to Poland for paramilitary training

The interior minister is soon expected in Warsaw as Abuja explores plans to send members of its security and civil defence services to Poland for specialist training, in a sign of strengthening ties between the two countries.

Palace Intrigues
Rachel Ruto, Michael Randrianirina, Saif al-Islam

Intrigues big and small: every Thursday, Africa Intelligence takes a peek into the corridors of power in Africa and beyond.

KenyaRachel Ruto set to enter the presidential campaign

MadagascarFrom Rajoelina to Randrianirina, businessman Nasser Goulamhoussen tends to his varying networks

Libya-FranceRelatives of ‘martyr' Saif al-Islam Gaddafi organise ceremony

Libya, Tunisia
Tunisian group Etraph busy building pre-revolutionary projects from Benghazi to Tripoli

The construction of a five-star hotel in the new Al-Andalus marina tourist complex has just been revived in the capital. Its developer will also build the future Libyan European Hospital.

Libya
French investors walk tightrope between Dbeibeh and Haftar

Business groups from France are trying to advance their interests in western Libya, while maintaining their business networks in the east. It's a successful strategy that has resulted in the recent creation of two partnerships in Paris.

Libya
The bail standing in the way of Hannibal Gaddafi's freedom

The release of Muammar Gaddafi's son, who has been detained for 10 years, is conditional on a large bail payment demanded by the Lebanese courts. However, this sum could soon be reduced or even cancelled altogether.

Libya
Initiative launched at UN to penalise those who mismanaged frozen Libyan assets

A Libyan committee recognised by the House of Representatives has asked the United Nations to audit funds frozen abroad since 2011. It accuses several countries, including Belgium, of mismanagement of these assets and calls for the establishment of a mechanism to preserve them.

The New Guard
Nigeria, Namibia, Libya

Every Wednesday, Africa Intelligence spotlights a new generation of movers and shakers in business and politics.

NigeriaKashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, Bola Ahmed Tinubu's AI guy

NamibiaShakwa Nyambe, the president's low-key oil advisor

LibyaMohamed Hamuda, from activist to young consul general

Libya
Tripoli's phantom chancelleries

Embassies abolished, chargés d'affaires and ambassadors indefinitely in post, legal cases, absence of a foreign minister... Disorder reigns in the not-so-hushed corridors of the North African country's chancelleries.

Libya
Northern Irish Baroness Hoey targets £9.5bn worth of frozen Libyan assets

A member of the British House of Lords, Kate Hoey believes that Libya, by financing the IRA under Gaddafi's regime, owes compensation to victims of the Irish resistance group.

Libya
NOC prevents three Swiss companies from seizing its shares in Mabruk Oil Operations

Libya's national oil company has won its legal battle against Jallouli Communications Group Easymedia, Sysmed Travel and Hôpital de la Tour, which had managed to seize its shares in the French subsidiary Mabruk Oil Operations.

Libya
Shipbuilder Penguin International sends a landing ship to Benghazi

A Penguin International landing craft was docked between mid-January and mid-March at the capital Cyrenaica's port.