Africa

• Vol 48 No 17
•  24th August 2007

Government Who's Who

• Vol 48 No 17
•  24th August 2007

Non-Government Who's Who

Stephen Lewis: United Nations' Special Envoy, HIV-AIDS in Africa, 2001-06; Deputy Director, UN Children's Fund, 1995-1999; Canada's Permanent Representative, UN, 1984-98; was Coordinator, Graça Machel study on children in armed conflict; Senior Advisor, S...

• Vol 48 No 16
•  3rd August 2007

Rapture not rupture

President Nicolas Sarkozy is billed as France's first post-colonial head of state but his first state visit to Africa did not presage a rupture with the Françafrique system. In Senegal, President Abdoulaye Wade clapped politely in support of France's sele...

• Vol 48 No 14
•  6th July 2007

Books on the boom

Africa's oil boom has inspired three very different books, which investigate the links between the billions of petrodollars and the persistent poverty and oppression reigning in so many oil-rich states.

• Vol 48 No 14
•  6th July 2007

Brownie points

British engagement in Africa and aid levels will continue to rise under Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who took over from Tony Blair on 27 June, government sources told Africa Confidential. Brown completely reordered his foreign policy and Africa team in hi...

• Vol 48 No 13
•  22nd June 2007

Sarko's team

New Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner has won his battle to keep development policy in his Ministry, rather than in the new Immigration Ministry under the right-wing Brice Hortefeux, a long-time acolyte of President Nicolas Sarkozy.

• Vol 48 No 12
•  8th June 2007

From Blair to Brown

The economists are coming

• Vol 48 No 12
•  8th June 2007

Brown and the Brownites

Little is known about new Prime Minister Gordon Brown's intentions on foreign policy or his choice of lieutenants, even though he has been the economic supremo in the British government for a decade.

• Vol 48 No 11
•  25th May 2007

Year of the Pig - the new scramble for Africa

Deputy Governor of the People's Bank of China Xiang Junbo explained that this is the Year of the Pig in the Chinese calendar, a symbol of fortune and good luck. For many of the 2,000 African delegates in Shanghai who heard him, that is starting to ring...

• Vol 48 No 11
•  25th May 2007

The Western response

Ostensibly, Western finance officials welcomed Asia's developing ties with Africa at the African Development Bank meeting in Shanghai. Norway's Secretary of State for International Development, Anne F. Stenhammer, congratulated China on the 'excellent ide...