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  • Vol 42 No 23
  • 23/11/2001

Armed and dangerous

Arms supplies to countries such as Zimbabwe and Congo-Kinshasa will be more tightly controlled, says Britain's Minister of State for Trade, Nigel Griffiths. UK-based arms dealers breaking embargoes will face tougher investigation and penalties under a new...

  • Vol 42 No 23
  • 23/11/2001

No more handouts

Belgium's Sabena went bust. Swissair was to have rescued it but followed it into financial collapse. For Africa's business travellers and public servants, it's a disaster. Swissair, trying to rescue its famous flag from disgrace, offered Sabena passengers...

  • Vol 42 No 22
  • 09/11/2001

Doing the business

The third US-Africa Business Summit, in Philadelphia on 30 October – 2 November was larger and more successful than the previous ones in Washington (1999) and Houston (2000) – despite the current crisis.

  • Vol 42 No 21
  • 26/10/2001

Washington's new pragmatism

Forget the broad principles, Bush's people prefer trade, practical details and anti-terrorism

  • Vol 42 No 19
  • 28/09/2001

Everyone's catastrophe

The slaughter in the USA creates more economic and political problems for Africans

  • Vol 42 No 19
  • 28/09/2001

Where Usama fits in

Sudan and Saudi Arabia hold the key to the movement blamed for the raid on America

  • Vol 42 No 18
  • 14/09/2001

Milingogate

Zambian Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo has been at odds with the Vatican since 1982, when he was removed from his archdiocese of Lusaka and given unspecified duties in Rome (AC Vol 41 No 20). There, he built up a huge following as a faith-healer. At 71, he b...

  • Vol 42 No 17
  • 31/08/2001

Birds of a feather

The leadership struggle in Britain's Conservative Party has an African dimension. After one of right-winger Iain Duncan Smith's backers was expelled last week from the party for also backing the even-further-right British National Party, another was frown...

  • Vol 42 No 15
  • 27/07/2001

Hunting lobby

A new generation breaks through in Paris but the money no longer flows freely

  • Vol 42 No 14
  • 13/07/2001

Les jeux sont faits

Francophone dignitaries are gathered in Ottawa, Canada, and its Québecois sister-city, Hull, for the 2001 Jeux de la Francophonie, starting, appropriately enough, on 14 July, Bastille Day. But while 2,600 athletes and artists test their mettle on t...

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