A map of the Sahel region showing where Al Qaeda operates (AFP/Graphic)
Posted on 09/04/2011 7:34:02 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Moammar Gadhafi bankrolled and championed the vision of a United States of Africa, with himself as the continental president. As Libya struggles to find its equilibrium on the cusp of what appears to be the post-Gadhafi era, one question is its future as part of Africa.
The African Union has not officially recognized the rebel leadership in Libya, saying "regime change" and outside intervention were wrong...
More than a dozen African countries have unilaterally recognized Libya's rebel leadership, though not some of the continent's heavyweights -- or the African Union. This has prompted a furious response from the transitional administration.
Guma El-Gamaty, the Libyan rebel representative in Britain... dismisses the African Union's position as pro-Gadhafi...
Political analyst Miguna Miguna says Africa cannot simply sweep away history and forget the pivotal role Gadhafi has played on the continent.
"Gadhafi funded all the main liberation movements in Africa. It's a fact. We can't change history," Miguna says. "He chose to be a pan-Africanist -- that we will never take away from Gadhafi."
Miguna warns that Libya's rebel leaders risk alienating the continent, not least because of the brutal treatment allegedly being meted out to black Africans, whom Gadhafi recruited into his fighting forces. However, many other African migrants -- who are not hired guns -- are also being targeted, Miguna says.
"Some of the statements I've heard from the transitional authority in Libya are worrying, in the sense that they sound very anti-African, anti-sub-Saharan African," Miguna says...
Jean Ping heads the AU commission and says the Transitional National Council (TNC) "...seems to confuse black people with mercenaries," Ping says. "If you do that, [it] means one-third of the population in Libya, which is black, is also mercenaries."
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A map of the Sahel region showing where Al Qaeda operates (AFP/Graphic)
I plan to be be out of this house and out doing something any second now.
Pass the Popcorn ping.
Are whites in Africa called “American Africans?”
And how do they get Teflon to stick to the inside of the pan?
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