Gaddafi warns Africa over unity

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Gaddafi warns Africa over unity

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has threatened to turn his back on Africa if the continent's leaders again reject his proposals for closer unity.

He said Libya would instead look towards Europe and the Arab world.
Col Gaddafi was speaking just ahead of the opening of a summit of African Union leaders in Ethiopia on Thursday.
He also said Libya was prepared to move its African investments, which he said amounted to more than $5bn (£2.5bn), to Arab and Mediterranean states.

The Libyan leader has for a long time advocated the creation of a United States of Africa - with its government including a foreign minister, defence minister and minister of trade.

The AU, which succeeded the Organisation of African Unity in 2002, was conceived by Mr Gaddafi as part of this vision.
New-found friendship
The BBC's Rana Jawad in Tripoli says Col Gaddafi expressed his concerns on the future of Africa at a two-hour news conference at his residence in the Libyan capital.

The summit will either put an end to stalling on the unification of Africa or prove there is a conspiracy which vetoes African unity
Muammar Gaddafi
He accused the AU of failing to achieve tangible results in unity because of its endless delays in progressing towards forming a government for the continent.

After decades of sanctions and isolation, the Libyan leader seems comfortable with his new-found friendship with the West, our reporter says.

He said Libya would consider more economically strategic alternatives like Europe and the Arab world if his vision was rejected.

"The (summit) will be decisive. It will either put an end to stalling and time wasting on the unification of Africa or prove there is a conspiracy which vetoes African unity," Mr Gaddafi said.

Our correspondent says the Libyan leader failed to name individual countries he blames for the lack of progress.
But he praised the French-speaking African states as well as Nigeria, under its former leader Olusegun Obasanjo, for wanting African unity.

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Originally Posted by Black Lion

He accused the AU of failing to achieve tangible results in unity because of its endless delays in progressing towards forming a government for the continent.

After decades of sanctions and isolation, the Libyan leader seems comfortable with his new-found friendship with the West, our reporter says.

the man moves in mysterious ways. Ghadafi would have moved to the west already considering the olive branch that has suddenly been extended to him, but he has not done so because he is no fool. he sees what this friendship is attempting to do: take out an important force to the unification of Africa... keep the continent disunited and easy to rob of its riches. he knows what he has to do. its the Africans that keep letting him down, weak link, and eventually he will go away.

we are talking a man of principle here not even afraid to put Europe on hold because he knows they are the weaker party in this. their need and position is such that they can wait... this happens to be a fact that needs to be shoved into a lot of African heads...

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Originally Posted by Black Lion

"The (summit) will be decisive. It will either put an end to stalling and time wasting on the unification of Africa or prove there is a conspiracy which vetoes African unity," Mr Gaddafi said.

Our correspondent says the Libyan leader failed to name individual countries he blames for the lack of progress.
But he praised the French-speaking African states as well as Nigeria, under its former leader Olusegun Obasanjo, for wanting African unity.

it has to come to naming and shaming soon. what i also think is a good thing to do is forge unity among the willing countries, excluding the other neo-colonial bascket cases that are dragging their feet. this will be a way of killing two birds with one stone. if unification is a must for progress to freedom from western exploitation, and this fact is on every conscious African's mind, then those countries that are dragging their feet will stand out as the neo-colonial, puppet, minstrel, enslaved, traitor collaborators in African misery governments that they are, and WILL SOON be forced by their own people into some kind of action to save face, even life and limb.