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...persona will ensure that his efforts receive plenty of publicity. In his 40 years of dictatorial rule, Gaddafi has reinvented his identity as a leader almost as many times as he has stunned with his exotic outfits and female bodyguard. Nor has his rule been without controversy; Gaddafi??€™s four-decade-long tenure has seen the imposition and removal of sanctions and several high-profile incidents with Western nations, most notably the Lockerbie bombing of 1988, which saw a Pan Am plane explode over Scotland, killing hundreds of innocent civilians...
...Gaddafi??€™s high profile has immediately forced the countries of the AU to take notice. The BBC reports that his initial push has been deflected with nations set to reconvene in three months. Yet to assume Gaddafi??€™s plan was a simple, direct push for unification underestimates the wily dictator. Unification in Africa is now a topic that will not fade away, at least for the next year of Gaddafi??€™s chairmanship...
...This development represents not only a military withdrawal, but also a defeat for the AU and its ability to promote stability and order in its nations. Gaddafi??€™s pressure to bolster the AU can only help in this regard; though a continental army might be impractical, greater cooperation and expansion in the AU’s armed forces is necessary in order to restore some sort of stability to Somalia and support the transitional federal government...
...Gaddafi??€™s plan is especially important because of Africa’s complicated relationship with the United Nations and Europe. Many of the nations in positions to provide support and military assistance for the AU are the very nations that colonized Africa decades or centuries ago. Gaddafi??€™s call for a united Africa represents an African-born, African-comprised initiative...
...Improving accountability and the role of the African community in self-policing are objectives seemingly in harmony with Colonel Gaddafi??€™s broader aims. Gaddafi??€™s grand ambition will likely not be realized in the near future, but it is important that he continue to raise the issue and move other African leaders to seek compromises with his policies that will move Africa toward a stronger, united position...