By Patrick Smith
Two-way trade between Africa and China from January to November this year was worth US$114.8 billion, that is a 43.5% increase over the same period last year according to Beijing. These figures reinforce China's position as the single biggest trading part...
By Patrick Smith
NIGERIA: PRIMARY PASSIONS For an accidental President, Goodluck Jonathan is taking to the national political contest with alacrity. After a mini-national tour, Jonathan's campaign team have announced that 20 out of the 26 state governors loyal to the Peo...
By Patrick Smith
KENYA: Naming names or no namesKenyans eagerly await the announcement due at 17.00 Nairobi time on 15 December from the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Luis Moreno Ocampo, about its efforts to investigate and prosecute the perpetrato...
By Patrick Smith
CÔTE D’IVOIRE: Laurent Gbagbo against the worldThis week diplomats and their organisations are ratcheting up the pressure on Laurent Gbagbo to accept that he lost the second round of the presidential election on 28 November and hand power to his rival Ala...
By Patrick Smith
AFRICA/EUROPE: BAD MARRIAGE, LOW ATTENDANCE Suppose I gave a summit and nobody came. That may be the question that Libya's mercurial leader Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi is asking himself this week. His grand Afro-Euro convocation in Tripoli is in danger of ...