 Why Africans went silent on Gaddafi? Libyan revolutionary, politician, and political theorist Muammar Mohammed Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi from 1969 to 2011, he served as the de facto ruler of Libya. First as the revolutionary chairman of the Libyan Arab Republic from 1969 to 1977, and then as the brotherly leader of the great socialist people's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya from 1977 to 2011. One of the mistakes made by so many political analysts is to believe that their enemies should be our enemies, Nelson Mandela said. Take a moment to imagine what could happen if Nelson Mandela was president of South Africa when Gaddafi was deposed by NATO forces that invade Libya. Could South Africa intervene? Nelson Mandela's grandson is named Gaddafi, a sign of how popular and love the late Libyan leader once was in South Africa and in many other Africa countries. During his 42 years regime in Libya, Gaddafi went from revolutionary hero to international outcast, to valued strategic partner, and back to outcast again. Despite being seen as a pan-African who fought African unit, he was accused of backing notorious rebel groups in Liberia and Sierra Leone and much more. He was despised by the West, particularly France, Britain, Italy, and USA. He had several other enemies and was seen a treat from some African regimes. And this is possible explanation why the continent's organs, such as the African Union looked on silently during the invasion of his country in 2011. Either ways, an unmistakable sense of trauma makes the action of African countries to toward the fall of Gaddafi. Today, we are going to uncover the real reasons why Africa stayed silent when was removed from power. Welcome to Africa Reloaded. Please like and subscribe to the channel as we move on. In February 2011, Libyans held a nationwide strike against the regime of Gaddafi, which turned into an armed conflict between Gaddafi's forces and Western-backed rebels. Later in match, NATO forces intervened in the Civil War with promises to liberate the country. The operation helped overthrow Gaddafi and also left the country deeply unstable. Over the past 10 years, Libyans have been affected by political and economic collapse, inter-malicia and inter-tribal warfare, as well as humanitarian crisis, which fueled the refugee crisis in Europe and allowed the Islamic State to establish a Libyan heaven that the USA is trying to contain. Today, Libya has seen a positive state of development and a relative level of peace and planned presidential elections aimed to provide the country with legal and legitimate leadership that has been postponed many times to the end of the year. So far, a total of 98 candidates have registered to have the top seat, but there are disagreements about the election rules. Some Libyans are scared the dispute about the coming elections could trigger and spike more riots and crisis, like that of the 2014 failed elections, when Libya split between Western and Eastern factions with parallel administration in Tripoli and Bihazi. This election is crucial to Libya's future and a major geopolitical stake in the eyes of the international powers. So where Libya prospects always like this, before 2011, Libya has achieved economic independence with its own water, its own food, its own oil, its own money, and its own state-owned bank. It had risen under Gadhafi from one of the poorest countries in Africa to one of the richest. Gadhafi wanted to structure and model Hyrule on Pan-Arab leader of Egypt, Gamal Abdel Nasser. He even adopted the same military rank, promoting himself to Colonel from Captain when he took over. He started to tackle the unfair economic legacy of foreign domination by colonial powers. For Egypt's Gamal, it was the Suez Canal while for Gadhafi, it was oil. Libya has the largest reserve of oil in Africa, as well as natural gas creating foreign interest in the desert nation. Significant reserves were discovered in the late 1950, but the extraction was controlled by foreign companies and the country was only getting a tiny percentage of the revenue. He memorably challenged the foreign oil executives by telling them, people who have lived without oil for over 5,000 years can live without it again for a few years to in order to again their legitimate rights. This tough stance paid off and Libya became the first developing country to secure a majority share of the revenue from its oil production. Other nations followed him, which led to the 1970 Arab petrol boom with production level matching the Gulf States with one of the smallest population in Africa, less than 3 million at the time. The black gold made Libya wealthy quickly. By the early 2000s, education and medical treatment were free for all Libyan. Having a home was considered a fundamental human right and Libyans participated in an original system of local democracy. Despite claims of his popularity in Africa, Gaddafi started being viewed with widespread suspicion. No one wanted to be friends with someone who routinely sponsored the overthrow of governments. As a result, Libya became isolated within the organization of African Unity following his 1980 military intervention in the Enchad. In protest, most governments boycotted and OAU summit in Tripoli in 1982. He also sent troops to boast the brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin's regime between 1972 and 1979. He called for a jihad by Congolese Muslims against the autocratic Western backed regime of Mubutusi Siko. In the 1990s, he provided military training to vicious rebel groups in Liberia and Sierra Leone and backed Turk rebels in Mali. In the year 2000, widespread xenophobic attacks in Tripoli and Zawiya against thousands of black African workers led to several deaths damaging Gaddafi's pan-African image. Following religious related conflicts in Nigeria, he called and pushed for the dissolution of the country in a bit to partition Africa's most populous nation into the separate Muslim and Christian countries. His vision of a United State of Africa complete with an army and common currency was rejected by most African leaders. He later crowned himself and as the King of Kings and his ambitions often failed to match political realities on the ground. All integration plans that he attempted and Africa failed. The blunders he had made when pushing for a pan-Arab agenda through the Islamic agenda were now failing him during his pan-African agenda. While using his oil wealth to buy influence within the African Union, any governments happily took his money but did not support him and a combination of all these issues according to me make the best explanation for the abandonment of the self-proclaimed King of Kings by his African friends. Following his removal from office and the African country's state silent as the 10 years long conflict unfolded in Libya, the world's major countries have been meddling in Libya while the African Union found itself sidelined and frozen out of initiatives aimed at ending the conflict. Political analyst has blamed Africans for not solving the crisis in Libya. This crisis had led to the flow of weapons into the entire Africa through the crisis-stricken nation of Libya. Thanks for watching. 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