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  • Vol 44 No 15
  • 25/07/2003

Who loses?

While some developing countries, such as competitive wheat and beef exporters like Argentina, would like the Common Agricultural Policy reform to be intensified, many African agricultultural exporters are worried. The European Commission is preparing new ...

  • Vol 44 No 13
  • 27/06/2003

Breaching the peace

There is growing acrimony over the management of the United Nations peacekeeping operations in Africa. The test case is Congo-Kinshasa where UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's special envoy Namanga Ngongi leaves at the end of this month. He was much critic...

  • Vol 44 No 11
  • 30/05/2003

Spinning the continent

Washington's political managers believe their Africa policy can win votes at home and undermine France at the G-8 summit

  • Vol 44 No 8
  • 18/04/2003

Odious debt

Forthcoming negotiations on cancelling much of Iraq's US$120-130 billion debt will have repercussions for Africa's most indebted states. Defenders of the status quo on poor country debt will be hardpressed if one of history's biggest write-offs ever goes ...

  • Vol 44 No 6
  • 21/03/2003

Catching the flak

Africa opposes a war in Iraq which will worsen the region's economic and security problems

  • Vol 44 No 6
  • 21/03/2003

The new American way

Africa's hopes of fairer trade, debt relief and more help to tackle the AIDS pandemic are being thwarted by deepening divisions between rich countries over the Iraq war. Growing animosity between the United States-United Kingdom axis and the Franco-German...

  • Vol 44 No 6
  • 21/03/2003

Oil empires

Some US hawks see African oil as a strategic alternative to Gulf oil. The reality is less dramatic

  • Vol 44 No 5
  • 07/03/2003

Jacques is back

France's triumphal return to Africa is marred only slightly by the tricky problems it faces there

  • Vol 44 No 4
  • 21/02/2003

A long march

China's decision last week to send 220 peacekeeping troops to the beleaguered Mission de l'Organisation des Nations Unies en République Démocratique du Congo (MONUC) has been welcomed at a time when international military personnel are at a ...

  • Vol 44 No 3
  • 07/02/2003

Rebel forces, market forces

Côte d'Ivoire's civil war may have boosted cocoa prices but it has also closed the processing plants

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