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...Taylor launched a Libyan-funded armed uprising in Liberia in 1989. The ensuing civil war lasted until 1996, and Taylor was elected President the following year. He ruled for six years before heading into exile in Nigeria, where he was eventually arrested. Taylor was sent to the Hague in June 2006, but the trial covers only his role in Sierra Leone. (See pictures of the two sides of Nigeria...
...someone were to ask me about my ethnic background in Cambridge, I would equate the question with an invitation to discuss my mixed ancestry—my father is Libyan, and my mother is German...
...just minerals Beijing is now frantic to buy. On March 3, China National Petroleum Corp. agreed to buy Calgary based Verenex Energy, which has a 50% stake in a huge Libyan oilfield, for $390 million. The China Development Bank and China Petroleum & Oil Corp. last month invested $10 billion in Petrobras, Brazil's state-owned oil company and the prime operator in one of the most promising new offshore fields in the world. The deal gives Petrobras capital to further develop the fields. In return, China will get 100,000 to 160,000 barrels of oil a day over...
...after British and United States intelligence officials intercepted a ship headed for Libya with centrifuge parts from Khan, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, caught red-handed, decided to give up his nuclear program and cooperate with international inspectors...
...Addis Ababa United States of Africa? Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, the former international pariah who has mended relations with the West in recent years, was elected chairman of the African Union on Feb. 2. Gaddafi quickly vowed to pursue his dream of reorganizing the 53-member body into a political federation akin to the United States. He promised that the continent would consider the proposal--which many leaders in the short term oppose and which experts regard as unlikely--at a July summit. Libya, which has been assailed for human-rights violations and supporting terrorism during Gaddafi's 39-year...