So Muammar Gaddafi is no more. But to what extent did he pay with his life less for the torture and oppression for which he was undoubtedly responsible than for his lesser-known empire-building ambitions to create a ‘United States of Africa’?

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When, Gaddafi helped 45 Africans countries in 1992 to establish the Regional African Satellite Communication Organization (RASCOM), he gave the continent its own satellite – in so doing, putting an end to its reliance on a costly European-based telecommunications system.

According to the Cameroonian professor Jean–Paul Pougala, director of the Institute of Geo-Strategic Studies and Professor of Sociology and Geo-Politics at Geneva School of Diplomacy:

“The Libyan guide put US$300 million on the table; the African Development Bank added US$50 million more and the West African Development Bank a further US$27 million – and that’s how Africa got its first communications satellite on December 26, 2007. This means the continent no longer had to pay a $500 million annual lease.”

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Gaddafi therefore became a permanent threat to western commercial interests – not only when, on  December 16 and 17, 2010, Africans unanimously rejected attempts by the West to join the African Monetary Fund, but also when he defined his telecommunications revolution as a means of freeing Africa from the grip of Europe and America for good.

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Prof Pougala adds: “The US$30 billion frozen by Mr Obama belonging to the Libyan Central Bank…

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