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Muammar Muhammad al-Gaddafi (Arabic: مُعَمَّر القَذَّافِي‎ Muʿammar al-Qaḏḏāfī, born 7 June 1942), commonly known as Muammar Gaddafi /ˈmoʊ.əˌmɑr ɡəˈdɑːfi/ was the de facto autocratic ruler of Libya from 1969 to 2011, after seizing power in a military coup. As a result of the 2011 Libyan civil war and the creation of the National Transitional Council, Gaddafi has become a disputed ruler, losing almost all domestic and international recognition...

Jose Ferreira was born in Mozambique in 1967 and grew up in South Africa. He lived in London for several years, and in 2005 returned to Johannesburg to initiate a new body of research. He is Assistant Professor of Sculpture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His artistic practice incorporates various media in which he engages debates about the self, technology, history and post-colonialism...

Hundreds of elephant tusks were burned in Kenya, in summer 2011, to highlight gravity of the situation with the illegal elephant killings. The tusks were originally seized in Singapore in 2002. Tusk Tusks are elongated, continuously growing front teeth, usually but not always in pairs, that protrude well beyond the mouth of certain mammal species. They are most commonly canines, as with warthogs, wild boar, and walruses, or, in the case of elephants and narwhals, elongated incisors...

Egypt (/ˈiːdʒɪpt/; Arabic: مصر, Miṣr, Egyptian Arabic: mɑsˤɾ ; Coptic: Kīmi ; Sahidic Coptic: Kēme), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...