DISINFO: The West killed Gaddafi to prevent him from solving Africa’s water problem
SUMMARY
What was the real reason for the killing of Muammar Gaddafi? Neo-imperialists -mostly the UK, France and the US- couldn’t allow the rebel colonel to have his way, but it was Gaddafi’s “hydric initiative” what finally infuriated the Western block. He planned to irrigate Africa with water stored under Sahara’s hard cortex. But he simply had no time to implement those plans. He was eliminated before. Guided by a cold calculation, Westerners defeated Libya, inspired the murder, terrible for its medieval cruelty, of its leader and planned and carried out the destruction of the country’s national wealth. The purpose was simple: the African continent must remain in poverty.
RESPONSE
Conspiracy theory not backed by any evidence. While between 1984 and 1996 Muammar Gaddafi’s regime developed an ambitious project to bring water from southern Libya’s aquifers to the coastal regions, called the Great Man-Made River, nothing indicates that it had any intention to expand similar plans to find and use water under Saharan soil to help other countries. While the reasons for Western nations to intervene in Libya against Gaddafi’s forces are complex and remain controversial, the allegation that it aimed to keep Africa in poverty is baseless and unsubstantiated.
The ultimate goal of this disinformation story is to promote recurring pro-Kremlin narratives about Western imperialism. See other examples in our database, such as claims that Western countries are rich because they keep Africa in poverty, that the West brought terrorism in the Sahel to get Africa's natural resources, that EU humanitarian aid to Africa is plundering in disguise unlike Russia's, or that the West supports dictatorships in Africa.