Affairs / Diplomacy
Monocolumn
Sunday 27 February
Maghreb focus: Italy’s interests in Libya
Muammar Gaddafi’s bloody crackdown against protesters challenging his 42-year rule has received sharp rebuke from world leaders.
Sunday 27 February
Muammar Gaddafi’s bloody crackdown against protesters challenging his 42-year rule has received sharp rebuke from world leaders.
Wednesday 1 September
Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi’s visit to Rome this week has not been without controversy.
Monday 23 July
In the Monocle Guide to Being a Dictator the final chapter is devoted to the one thing that all autocrats would rather not think about but most will have to one day face: what to do when the game is up.
Wednesday 23 February
A single policeman stood guard at the door, a tourist waited patiently in the cold for a visa and a cleaner put the rubbish out.
Friday 25 March
The situation in Libya has escalated from protest to insurrection to civil war to international conflict
Tuesday 23 August
Sometimes the desperately unimaginative question is the right one to ask.
Wednesday 23 March
If Gaddafi goes, then the Touareg will be in great danger
We throw the spotlight on the sartorial style of Libya's Saif al-Gaddafi and Somaliland's hi-tech elections.
The downfall of Libya’s Colonel Gaddafi in late 2011 had unforeseen consequences: thousands of Tuareg fighters employed by Gaddafi returned to their native Mali, adding considerable steel to a separatist movement in the…
Malta, the Mediterranean island with a population of 400,000, is booming thanks to EU membership and its adoption of the euro. It’s also perfectly poised to exploit renewed trade with Gaddafi’s Libya.
Having issued an arrest warrant for Colonel Gaddafi, will the International Criminal Court ever bring the Libyan leader to justice? Here, prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo responds to critics who say the ICC is ineffectual.
Tuesday 30 August
What do you do when an unpopular dictator comes a-knocking? With next-door-neighbour Algeria the only country in the Maghreb yet to recognise the authority of Libya’s Transitional National Council (TNC), it really was the…
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