Africa: After Gaddafi, Who Is Next?

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Another tyrant from the Maghreb States, in the northern end of the African continent, has been ousted. Who is next? Will the winds of revolutionary change blow down to the Sub-Saharan African countries despite a considerable difference between the two Africas?

Once a feared man, Colonel Muammar El-Gaddafi, is finished as one teenage rebel told the international press after the fall of Tripoli. "He called us rats, now he is the real rat; where is he? He must be hiding inside a bunker." No one can stop the people of Libya from celebrating.

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