Col Muammar Gaddafi’s children have fled Algeria, fearing the oil-rich dictatorship’s improving relations with the new Libya authorities is undermining their safe haven.
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Aisha would have joined her brother Hannibal, left, and half-brother Mohammad in an African country Photo: AFP
By Damien McElroy, Foreign Affairs Correspondent
7:30PM GMT 11 Nov 2012
Tight restrictions on the family and the prospect of a deal to allow Gaddafi’s widow back into Libya prompted the family to seek refuge elsewhere in Africa, regional officials said.
Reports in the Arabic press this week said that Aisha Gaddafi, the lawyer and most prominent member of the clan, had moved with her brother Hannibal and half-brother Mohammad to an African country.
Because of the UN flight ban on the Gaddafi inner circle, the siblings could most readily gain access to Niger, the impoverished Saharan state where a third brother, Saadi, lives on the presidential compound.
Niger is one of the few options open to the family as offers of asylum in Zimbabwe and Venezuela were impractical. Other countries are less reliable. Mauritania extradited Abdullah Senussi, Aisha’s uncle and Gaddafi’s intelligence chief back to Libya this summer.
A series of recent developments triggered the decision to leave the highly protected, secluded compound that the Gaddafis were granted in Algerian government, a family associate said. “Definitely they wanted to get out,” he said.
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Aisha Gaddafi is said to have grown increasingly frustrated with the restrictions on her communications imposed by the Algerian regime.
The family recently hired Tunisian lawyer Bashir al-Said to represent their campaign for an International Criminal Court investigation into Col Gaddafi’s death.
But the Algerians disrupted Miss Gaddafi’s discussions with her legal team, fearing she is engaged in political activities, something they have banned.
The final straw, however, was a deal between the Algerians and Libyan officials to allow Gaddafi’s widow to return to Libya as a free woman.
Safia, the former nurse who became Gaddafi’s second wife and mother of all but one of this children, was not a central player in the regime. The new Libyan government had no objection to her return to her hometown of Baida.
A family fixer with access to its financial funds visited Niger to arrange a reunion of the Gaddafi children in recent weeks, a London-based businessman close to the associate told the Daily Telegraph.
The effort began after Mourad Medelci, the Algerian foreign minister, visited Tripoli earlier this year and promised to exercise tight control over the family.
A heavily guarded 'gilded cage’ was made available to house Aisha, her brothers, their wives and children and some servants just outside Algiers since last year.
A spokesman for the Niger government in Niamey was not available to comment.
Saadi Gaddafi had been able to host parties at Niamey restaurants until the government was embarrassed by reports of his relative freedom, causing a row with Libya.
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, Col Gaddafi’s heir apparent and the most important surviving member of the regime, is in Libyan custody and awaiting trial.
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