Gaddafi: Israel is “behind all of Africa’s conflicts”
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi blasted Israel at a special African Union summit yesterday on the eve of celebrations to mark his 40-year rule, accusing the Jewish state of causing all the woes facing Africa.
Israel is “behind all of Africa’s conflicts,” Kadhafi told some 30 African leaders gathered under a huge tent at Tripoli airport for a summit focused on solving the continent’s trouble spots, including Sudan’s Darfur and Somalia.
However the one-day meeting ended without proposing concrete steps to do so, the leaders merely adopting a “Tripoli Declaration” and a plan of action “to find urgent solutions to crises and conflicts” in Africa.
That plan urged member states who have pledged to contribute troops to reinforce the AU peacekeeping force in Somalia (AMISOM) to honour their promises “rapidly.”