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  • Vol 49 No 23
  • 14/11/2008

Changes ahead for UN forces

Africa's crises may prompt radical reform of the mandates and structures of peacekeeping operations

  • Vol 49 No 23
  • 14/11/2008

Espion embarrassant

The leaked diaries of former French intelligence chief Yves Bertrand have enraged and amused the political establishment in Paris, which is already intrigued by the accusations of high-level corruption made by the prosecutors in the ongoing Angolagate ...

  • Vol 49 No 21
  • 17/10/2008

Obama rings the changes

African citizens enthuse about the prospect of an Obama presidency, but their governments are much more cautious

  • Vol 49 No 21
  • 17/10/2008

Diplomats on the campaign trail

Barack Obama is taking no chances on foreign policy, seen as one of his weaknesses against Senator John McCain who has been in Congress since 1983.

  • Vol 49 No 21
  • 17/10/2008

Africa and the credit crash

Africa’s economies growing faster on average than all other regions, except Asia, but how will they fare when the global slowdown bites?

  • Vol 49 No 20
  • 03/10/2008

Financial and political chaos

As equities and corporate fortunes plummeted outside, diplomats discussed aid pledges and peackeeping

  • Vol 49 No 20
  • 03/10/2008

The Millennium stops here

The Millennium Goals remain elusive and controversial

  • Vol 49 No 20
  • 03/10/2008

Alarmed allies

The United States government's facility for ignoring the crimes of its allies in the 'Global War on Terror' is again being challenged, this time from the inside. On 22 September, Senator Russell D. Feingold (Democrat, Wisconsin), Chairman of the S...

  • Vol 49 No 19
  • 19/09/2008

Exorcising demons

The United States Republican Party seems eager to rival the African credentials of Democratic contender Barack Obama with its international links. The Republicans’ Vice-Presidential candidate and Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, credits itinerant Kenya...

  • Vol 49 No 10
  • 09/05/2008

It's the price that counts

It is easy to find culprits for the food crisis in Africa, from the West's push for biofuels to China's newly well-fed middle class. The fact is that food supplies are short and prices therefore high in the short term - and probably in the long term to...

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