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Lockerbie bomber Megrahi dies in Libya
21/05/2012 - African news explained

Lockerbie bomber Megrahi dies in Libya

Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi, the only person convicted over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing which killed 270 people, has died.

Sarkozy takes on the media
06/05/2012 - International media

Sarkozy takes on the media

Arné Cornig, president of the European Federation of Journalists, slams French President Nicolas Sarkozy for attacks on French media outlets that published allegations that Libya funded his ...

03/05/2012 - France - Libya

Ex-Libyan PM confirms claim Kadhafi funded Sarkozy in 2007

A lawyer for former Libyan prime minister Baghdadi al-Mahmudi says his client can confirm that ex-Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi's regime funded French President Nicolas Sarkozy's 2007 election ...

30/04/2012 - France

Sarkozy to sue over media claims ex-Libyan dictator funded 2007 election campaign

French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who faces Socialist rival François Hollande in the 6 May run-off presidential election, says he will press charges against investigative news website ...

Libya to resume mustard gas stockpile reduction
25/04/2012 - African news explained

Libya to resume mustard gas stockpile reduction

The global chemical weapons watchdog, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, says it wants Libya to destroy its arsenal.

17/04/2012 - France

Sarkozy denies plan to build nuclear power station in Kadhafi's Libya

Incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday denied that France had plans to build a nuclear power station in Libya under Moamer Kadhafi, despite an agreement to negotiate such a deal signed in ...

Where will Saif al-Islam Kadhafi stand trial?
16/04/2012 - African news explained

Where will Saif al-Islam Kadhafi stand trial?

The International Criminal Court has published a report on the possibility of trying Saif al-Islam, former Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi's son, rather than in Libya, where he is now being held.

13/04/2012

French press review 13 April 2012

The presidential election campaign remains the towering issue in the papers this Friday, but a damning report on education by the French accounts court, Iran, the plight of Syrian refugees and ...

03/04/2012 - Mali

Ecowas slaps sanctions on Mali ahead of emergency UN meeting

West African leaders have introduced harsh sanctions on Mali's new junta ahead of emergency UN talks on Tuesday on the troubled nation, half of which is now held by Tuareg rebels and Islamist ...

23/03/2012

African press review 23 March 2012

Mali's coup, Senegal's presidential run-off, a trap for "Kadhafi's black-box" and semen hunting... are in today's African newspapers.

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