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  • Vol 47 No 7
  • 31/03/2006

Lackadaisical list

As worries grow about air safety in Africa, the European Union has released a new list of 91 (mostly African) airlines banned from entering its airspace. It claims the list will help maintain safety standards - but virtually none of the lines listed fl...

  • Vol 47 No 6
  • 17/03/2006

Professional risks

The murder of Robert Feliciaggi in the car park of Corsica's Ajaccio airport on 10 March raises embarrassing questions in Africa and France. Feliciaggi owned casinos, lotteries and betting shops in West Africa, sat in Corsica's Territorial Assembly, wa...

  • Vol 47 No 3
  • 03/02/2006

Confucius, he say

On 12 January, China issued a paper on its African policy. This raises more questions than it answers, as it reads less like a policy paper than a public relations exercise designed to flatter African leaders. China is also trying to woo the African pu...

  • Vol 47 No 3
  • 03/02/2006

Booted out

Shock spread when South Africa, host of the 2010 World Cup, was knocked out in the first round after an ignominious 3-0 defeat by Zambia on 30 January. A furious President Thabo Mbeki accused the national team, Bafana Bafana, of failing to defend the ...

  • Vol 46 No 24
  • 02/12/2005

Privatisation flood

The ideology that has taken over Western utilities spreads in Africa

  • Vol 46 No 22
  • 04/11/2005

Flying flu

The next six weeks are crucial in Africa for the much-feared spread of avian influenza, which may be carried by birds migrating from affected countries in central Asia and Europe. As many as five billion birds of more than 200 species cross the Sahara ...

  • Vol 46 No 20
  • 07/10/2005

Turning the corner

Activists, businesses and politicians are driving a new economic dynamic on the continent

  • Vol 46 No 18
  • 09/09/2005

Terror imperative

Britain will soon have defence attachés (DAs) in Algeria and Sudan but will lose its DA in Angola and probably other African countries to pay for them. A sergeant is preparing a Defence Section for an attaché in the Algiers Embassy, we h...

  • Vol 46 No 17
  • 26/08/2005

Death by plane

Sudanese Vice-President John Garang's death in a helicopter crash on 30 July (see Feature) highlights the danger of African travel, especially in vast roadless countries such as Congo-Kinshasa or Sudan where flying is the only way for politicians to ge...

  • Vol 46 No 14
  • 08/07/2005

Unkindest cuts

Whitehall promoted the big push for Africa but is now cutting back its diplomatic staff and budgets there

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