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Gadafii Mercenaries paid between $300 and $2,000 a day

After decades of financing and training rebels and liberation movements, Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi is accused of using his influence to amass an army of mercenaries from across sub-Saharan Africa. Liberia, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Chad, Mali and Zimbabwe: One only has to name a conflict, rebel group or despot in Africa to find someone the Libyan…

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Three Horseman of a New Apocalypse

What a world! Much of North Africa remains roiled with mass protests against autocratic or crazed leaders. One predictable result has been skyrocketing oil prices with potentially adverse consequences for recovering economies. And, in the United States, a possible shutdown of government looms because America’s two political parties prefer to indulge in a game of…

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Libya Has Its Own Hero: A Young Lawyer called “Triple Fathi” [photo]

Benghazi – AFP- (TRANSLATION The intifada was inspired by the Libyan Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions, which toppled the puppet regimes in neighboring countries, they also have a hero, a lawyer Fathi, who formed his arrest Triple spark ignited popular movements. After Muhammad Bouazizi, vendor mobile young university graduate who burnt himself as a result of…

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New Decade has begun with A Glorious Example of the Indefatigable Courage of the Human Spirit.

Anyone who read “The Yacoubian Building”, a novel published in 2002 by Egyptian author Alaa Al Aswany, will regard the revolution in Egypt as long overdue. The novel’s readers will not have been astonished by the ease with which the rotting hulk of Hosni Mubarak’s regime was dashed against the rocks, nor by the spirit…

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Libyan revolutionaries are the new “Lions of the Desert”

Forces loyal to Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi have heavily bombarded pro-democracy protesters, who are zeroing in on the capital, Tripoli. The bombardment was reported in Zawiyah, a city located some 50 kilometers west of Tripoli. The violence act came hours after demonstrators took control of the strategically important town. Two thousand people have been reported…