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  • Vol 44 No 19
  •  26th September 2003

Walter's woes II

US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Walter Kansteiner III is leaving his post in November, we hear, to spend more time with his young family (AC Vol 43 No 22). His able aide-de-camp Jim Dunlap may go, too. The war on terrorism and domestic...

  • Vol 44 No 16
  •  8th August 2003

Lions and hyenas

Botswana, South Africa, Mauritius, Namibia and Tunisia emerge as Africa's top five countries in the latest 'policy stance index' published by the Addis Ababa-based Economic Commission for Africa. The index evaluates each country's macro-economic and pover...

  • Vol 44 No 15
  •  25th July 2003

A can of subsidised worms

Europe is offering reforms to its restrictive farm policies, but Africans fear footing the bill

  • Vol 44 No 15
  •  25th July 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
  •  27th June 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
  •  30th May 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
  •  18th April 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
  •  21st March 2003

Catching the flak

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

  • Vol 44 No 6
  •  21st March 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
  •  21st March 2003

Oil empires

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

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