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Parent topics

• Africa [r]: Continent stretching over the equator, hosting deserts, tropical jungles and savannah as well as over fifty nations; population about 900,000,000. ^[e]
• North Africa [r]: Add brief definition or description

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Leadership

• Muammar Qadhafi [r]:
  

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Gaddafi at an African Union conference

Colonel Muammar Gaddafi (or Al Qadhdhafi, closer to the Arabic; 7 June 1942 – 20 October 2011) was a Libyan military officer and the de facto leader of Libya from a coup in 1969 until his regime was brought down as part of the Arab Spring popular uprising that began in February 2011. Gaddafi's forces lost control of Libya over several months and he was forced to retreat to his hometown of Sirte, where he was captured on 20 October 2011. He was killed shortly after, but there are conflicting accounts of this. The official statements by the new authorities say he was caught in crossfire on his way to hospital in Misratah and died there, but other accounts say he was "executed" or "lynched" in Sirte.

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Neighbours

Algeria [r]: North African republic that constitutionally recognises Islam plus Arab and Berber ethnic groups; second-largest African nation, population about 34,000,000. [e] Chad [r]: A landlocked country in East Africa and the Sahel, forming the western border of the Darfur Conflict, and having newly discovered oil running by pipeline to Cameroon on the Atlantic coast of West Africa [e] Egypt [r]: A country in the northeastern corner of Africa, bordering Sudan, Libya, the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea [e]

Niger [r]: A country in Western Africa, with one of the worst qualities of life in the world. [e] Sudan [r]: A nation in East Africa/Horn of Africa, with the largest land area of any country in Africa, and near-continuous civil wars since British independence in 1956; effectively a federation of Arab and African parts, with the southern region voting for independence in 2011. [e] Tunisia [r]: Country in the North African Maghreb region that gained independence from France in 1956 and was the first to see governmental change in the 2011 Arab Spring. [e]

Memberships

• G-77 [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Organization of the Islamic Conference [r]: Add brief definition or description
• United Nations [r]: An international organization that was founded in 1945 with the mission of preventing international war, protecting human rights, supporting social progress and justice, and helping with economic progress. ^[e]