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  • TUESDAY 7th April 2009

Genocide: My Stolen Rwanda, a book by Reverien Rurangwa

By Lion

On 7 April 2009, the anniversary of Rwanda's 100-day genocide, Reportage Press is publishing 'Genocide:My Stolen Rwanda' by Reverien Rurangwa. This is a personal account of the massacres by Reverien...

  • THURSDAY 12th February 2009

Letter from a reader.

By Dipo

Shame on the African Union Leaders The African Union leaders made history by electing one of their longest surviving dinosaur dictators, Colonel Qaddafi, to be the African Union president for the 2009 term. They made history not because they e...

  • THURSDAY 12th February 2009

Nigerian jobs for Nigerian workers?

By Dipo

Protests in Lincolnshire recently by British workers irate over jobs there going to Italian and Portugese ones raise some interesting issues. Total, the French oil company had caused to be brought in about 300 construction workers from those t...

  • MONDAY 8th December 2008

Don't forget about Africa's big vote

By Aardvark

After Somali pirates, Congolese warlords and Zimbabwe in the time of cholera, Ghana’s elections just don’t cut it. Or that’s the verdict of the international news organisations, which have studiously ignored election campaigning in a country that has some...

  • WEDNESDAY 12th November 2008

On the ropes

By Meerkat

In September's Africa-Asia Confidential, we reported on Taiwan president Ma Ying-jeou's proposed diplomatic truce with

  • WEDNESDAY 22nd October 2008

Lunch at the Dorchester

By Dipo

Lunch, last Tuesday at the Dorchester, was an immoveable feast. The tables were laden with food in a sumptuous spread worthy of a royal dinner. The invited guests, try as they did, could not make a dent in the sheer amount of the food made available fo...

  • FRIDAY 10th October 2008

IMF/Africa: Damned statistics

By Lion

The IMF's upbeat projection of 6% GDP growth for Africa in 2009 and the effect it hopes this would have on the world economy is optimistic. The Fund claims that the risk of global depression is small because it forecasts C...

  • MONDAY 8th September 2008

Africa/Football: Heros and villains

By Lion

The traditional summer bargaining season has come to a dramatic end and the football season has got underway in earnest. Among the usual whirlwind of gossip about which player might go where and which player is unhappy here and wants more money there, ...

  • MONDAY 4th August 2008

The arms deal that haunts British and South African politics

By Aardvark

The tale of secret payments of $50 million payments by Britain’s BAE Systems to a company in the British Virgin Islands which featured on 1 August on the front pages of Africa Confidential www.africa-confidential.com and the Financial Times www.ft.com is ...

  • MONDAY 30th June 2008

ZIMBABWE: A stolen election, a hasty inauguration and then a jet to Sharm el Sheikh

By Aardvark

HARARE: Sunday was a soporific affair on the streets of Harare, except for the government’s Chinese-made Mig jets zig-zagging across the cloudless sky in a show of power. All shops closed; nobody out on a Sunday stroll. Even some of the boisterous evangel...