ROME (Reuters) Mon Nov 16, 2009 - Libya's Muammar Gaddafi called for an end to the purchase of African farmland by food-importing nations at a U.N. hunger summit on Monday, describing it as "new feudalism" which could spread to Latin America as well."Rich countries are now buying the land in Africa. They are cheating African people out of their rights. This is also going to happen in...
Times Online (Howard Marks) I always sigh when I post something about aphrodisiacs in Egypt because I know that I am going to be swamped with junk mail advertising all sorts of interesting products and services. I'm not even convinced that it's particularly worth posting - it is terribly self obsessed. Here's an extract anyway. The Mr Nice author, hedonist and ex-drug smuggler seeks out and smokes...
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I wonder how Muammar Gaddafi would take to a devout Catholic head of state doing the same thing in return in Tripoli? No thanks, Colonel. Vattene via! Oh, and take your Bruto Corano with you.
One of the topics that came up during this past week's World Food Summit was the "land grabs" taking place in Africa. Lybia's Muammar Gaddafi accused rich nations of buying up large tracts of farm land for use to feed their own countries. From IPS, writer Paul Virgo looks into the debate that started last week. The U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the summit's host, said it...
Libyan President Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has called for an end to the buying and selling of African farmland by rich nations during UN hunger summit the headquarters of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome, Italy.
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During the FAO summit meeting in Rome, Muammar Kadhafi warned Africa about the “new feudalism” that consists of foreign countries leasing agricultural land. (...) [194mots]
They want the whole world. Whatt woman, in her right mind, would go to such a thing and actually take the koran wuth her? When in Rome...colonel orders in 500 beauties ..to convert to Islam When an elderly gent places an order for 500 leggy lovelies to attend a party in Rome, scenes of a saucy nature would seem to be guaranteed. Not, however, when the customer happens to be Colonel Muammar Gaddafi....
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When world leaders gathered here on Monday to seek a global solution to hunger, some big names of rich countries were absent from the event. The majority attendees to the world summit on food security hosted by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) came from African, Latin American and Asian countries, among them Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe...
Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi, spent several hours in the company of 200 Italian women recruited by an agency and tried to convert them to Islam. Islam - Religion and Spirituality - Muammar al-Gaddafi - Social Aspects - Libya