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  • Vol 51 No 6
  •  19th March 2010

Military money

In budget-cutting Washington DC, European cooperation is welcome even if European budgets are a fraction of United States’ funds. The US government has cut its Africom budget to US$278 million this year, compared to $310 mn. in 2009. Africom has about 1,3...

  • Vol 51 No 4
  •  19th February 2010

Beating up the bankers

A Congressional probe shows how banks in the USA welcomed stolen funds from Angola, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Nigeria

  • Vol 51 No 4
  •  19th February 2010

If you sincerely want to be rich

In February, the United States Senate Subcommittee on Investigations produced evidence on the transfer of illicit and suspect funds from African regimes to the USA. Its report highlighted lax US regulatory standards and the dubious activities of high-prof...

  • Vol 51 No 3
  •  5th February 2010

More money for the military

The Pentagon is expanding the reach and role of its new Africa command after a shaky start

  • Vol 51 No 3
  •  5th February 2010

Who’s who in Africom

Theresa Whelan, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence for African Affairs, General William ‘Kip’ Ward, Commander, Africom, Anthony Holmes, Deputy to the Commander for Civil-Military Activities, and Vice-Admiral Robert T. Moeller, Deputy, Military Operatio...

  • Vol 51 No 3
  •  5th February 2010

Warriors and diplomats

The United States Africa Command in Stuttgart, Germany, represents a remarkable shift in policy over little more than a decade. In 1995, a Defense Department memorandum concluded that ‘America’s security interests in Africa are very limited’ and that ‘ult...

  • Vol 51 No 2
  •  22nd January 2010

A slow return to growth

Africa suffered less than had been feared from the recession and its exports are set to recover this year thanks to buoyant demand from Asia

  • Vol 51 No 2
  •  22nd January 2010

BRIC building

'African assets were undervalued and China's presence has helped correct that, whether in bonds or foreign direct investment', said Victor Lopes, Africa Economist at Standard Chartered Bank. Multinationals from the BRICs - emerging nations Brazil, Russia,...

  • Vol 50 No 24
  •  4th December 2009

The East takes on the South

The new team of Eurocrats has little experience of Africa and may be surprised by what it finds

  • Vol 50 No 24
  •  4th December 2009

Mr Chambas goes to Brussels

After Mohammed ibn Chambas takes over as Secretary General of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group in Brussels on 1 March 2010, he will have to fight hard to reassert the coherence and sense of direction of this important lobby group and its relations...

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