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  • Vol 49 No 5
  •  29th February 2008

Bush, the farewell tour

President George Bush's five-country African tour on 16-21 February met with varied reactions. He was burned in effigy in Dar es Salaam and praised in Kigali by Irish singer and activist Bob Geldof, who said that Bush has 'done more (for Africa) than any ...

  • Vol 49 No 5
  •  29th February 2008

Not on parade

The planned new military headquarters will stay in Europe because of the widespread hostility to it in Africa

  • Vol 49 No 5
  •  29th February 2008

Bad marks

Just before President Nicolas Sarkozy and his new wife, Carla Bruni, set off on their African safari on 27 February to Chad, South Africa and Angola, Germany’s Bertelsmann Foundation issued a damning indictment of conditions in France’s former African col...

  • Vol 49 No 2
  •  16th January 2008

Panic, what panic?

The rich world's economies are sick and the looming recession in the United States has already triggered days of panic selling in Western and now Asian markets. Africa is caught in the middle of what many regard as part of a longer term shift of economic ...

  • Vol 49 No 2
  •  16th January 2008

Frontier market

Fund managers are keeping one eye on the global market twitches and another on some of Africa’s rockier political systems as they try to assess news risk in 2008. For the last five years, Africa has an enjoyed a favoured but frontier market status.

  • Vol 48 No 25
  •  14th December 2007

Not quite indispensable

Feted in Lisbon, African leaders left the summit frustrated by post-colonial squabbles and the lack of better trade proposals

  • Vol 48 No 25
  •  14th December 2007

Cross patch

Bored with the fractious Euro-African summit in Lisbon on 8-9 December, French President Nicolas Sarkozy used the opportiunity to try to patch up quarrels with Côte d'Ivoire, Rwanda and Angola.

  • Vol 48 No 21
  •  19th October 2007

The Mo Laureate

The great and good have met and argued vigorously over which African head of state should be the first to receive the Mohammed Fathi Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership to be announced on 22 October. For those unable to bear the suspense, ...

  • Vol 48 No 19
  •  21st September 2007

Boots nearer to the ground

Washington seeks Anglo-French support as it steps up its military presence in Africa

  • Vol 48 No 17
  •  24th August 2007

Ottawa rewrites the diplomatic and commercial rules

A fierce ideological battle is raging over Canada's foreign policy and the balance between its commitments to multilateralism and the United Nations, where it has been a stalwart provider of funds and peacekeepers, and its deepening alliance with its p...

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