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MURDERED Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi’s son is set to return to politics, just months after his release from captivity.
Saif al-Islam Gadaffi has been meeting politicians and tribal leaders in a bid to reunite the North African country divided between rival governments and factions since the 2011 Nato-led coup, his lawyer Khalid al-Zaidi told Russia’s Sputnik news in an interview published on Wednesday.
The Government of National Accord — installed by the United Nations in 2015 — nominally rules from the capital Tripoli, but it relies on the formerly Western-backed National Salvation Government’s Libya Shield coalition of insurgent groups from 2011 to enforce its will.
VIJAY PRASHAD details how US support for Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa allowed him to break the resistance of the autonomous Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)
International solidarity can ensure that Trump and his machine cannot prevail without a level of political and economic cost that he will not want to pay, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
As the Alliance of Sahel States and southern African nations advance pan-African goals, the African Union must listen and learn rather than parroting the Western line on these positive developments, writes ROGER McKENZIE