Gaddafi calls in favours from Africa

[Turborama]

Source: Financial Times

A campaign by Muammer Gaddafi to rally diplomatic and military support in sub-Saharan African has won only limited success.

Senior African officials told the Financial Times that Colonel Gaddafi and his officials had been on the tele­phone, cajoling and threatening allies to remain loyal in his hour of need.

The Libyan regime is also reported to have sought to recruit African fighters, including from among militant groups in Niger, Mali, Somalia, Eritrea, Sudan and Chad that have been supported by Col Gaddafi in the past.

But at least as many African leaders appear to be hoping for the demise of Libya’s maverick president as he has African supporters anxious that the flow of Libyan petrodollars might soon dry up.

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