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  • 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...

  • Vol 42 No 12
  • 15/06/2001

The Blair mission

After a second landslide, Britain's PM promises more time for Africa this term

  • Vol 42 No 10
  • 18/05/2001

The new foreign legion

Paris' African veterans are winning support for new plans to intervene in the continent's wars

  • Vol 42 No 10
  • 18/05/2001

In the lobbies

Advice and influence oil the path for African governments with US problems

  • Vol 42 No 10
  • 18/05/2001

Queuing for influence

Who's lobbying for whom - and what's it worth - in Angola, Cameroon, Congo-Brazzaville, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Liberia, Mozambique, Nigeria, Swaziland and Uganda?

  • Vol 42 No 9
  • 04/05/2001

Recamping out

Rwanda and Uganda must pay for their military involvement in Congo-Kinshasa by exclusion from the French-led peacekeeping programme, the Renforcement des Capacités Africaines de Maintien de la Paix. 'Recamp' is meant to promote peacekeeping in Afri...

  • Vol 42 No 7
  • 06/04/2001

Dirty deals

A Belgian arms trader, Jacques-Germain Monsieur, is the new star in the French judicial inquiry into France's former state oil company, Elf Aquitaine (now privatised and part of TotalFinaElf). Significantly, his revelations concern very recent events comp...

  • Vol 42 No 4
  • 23/02/2001

Peace budget

Britain's Labour government, whose proclaimed ethical foreign policy has been under fire since the Sandline affair in Sierra Leone (AC Vol 39 No 5), wants to show it takes Africa seriously. Prime Minister Tony Blair takes a personal interest: he speaks re...

  • Vol 42 No 3
  • 09/02/2001

Winners and losers in Angolagate

Politicians, soldiers and corporations are reeling in Luanda and Paris but some wily operators are capitalising on the scandal

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