{"id":223119,"date":"2026-02-07T23:54:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T21:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/libya-kadhafi-clans-path-back-to-power-fades-with-killing-of-saif-al-islam\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T23:54:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T21:54:04","slug":"libya-kadhafi-clans-path-back-to-power-fades-with-killing-of-saif-al-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/libya-kadhafi-clans-path-back-to-power-fades-with-killing-of-saif-al-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"Libya: Kadhafi Clan&#8217;s Path Back to Power Fades With Killing of Sa\u00eff Al-Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\"><em> The death of Sa\u00eff al-Islam Kadhafi &#8211; the last political heir of Libya&#8217;s former ruling family &#8211; is reshaping the country&#8217;s political landscape, dealing a decisive blow to any remaining hopes of the Kadhafi clan returning to power. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Nearly 15 years after the fall of his father, former Libyan leader Muammar Kadhafi, Sa\u00eff al-Islam was shot dead on Tuesday at his home in the city of Zintan, north-western Libya.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Media reports said Sa\u00eff al-Islam, 53, was at home alone when four armed men broke into&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602070215.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Libya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/libya\/\">Libya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death of Sa\u00eff al-Islam Kadhafi &#8211; the last political heir of Libya&#8217;s former ruling family &#8211; is reshaping the country&#8217;s political landscape, dealing a decisive blow to any remaining hopes of the Kadhafi clan returning to power. Nearly 15 years after the fall of his father, former Libyan leader Muammar Kadhafi, Sa\u00eff al-Islam was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":223120,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[891],"tags":[258,256,10621,31861,21920,40653,7805,4711,892,257,8446,7047,10837,254],"class_list":["post-223119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-libya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alislam","tag-clans","tag-fades","tag-kadhafi","tag-killing","tag-libya","tag-libya-news","tag-news","tag-path","tag-power","tag-saif","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}