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  • Vol 50 No 18
  •  11th September 2009

The flag follows the trade

France's giant power and construction companies have vast economic interests in Africa

  • Vol 50 No 14
  •  10th July 2009

Barack Obama launches his agenda in Ghana

The African audience hopes that President Obama's declared Africa policy will be both distinctive and practicable

  • Vol 50 No 14
  •  10th July 2009

Washington's Africa team takes shape

After years of marginalisation and under-staffing, the African Affairs bureau of the State Department is beginning to attract strong interest from the other regional bureaux. The first key appointment of the new team was that of veteran diplomat Johnnie C...

  • Vol 50 No 12
  •  12th June 2009

How to win in a recession

The trading of oil and other commodities is far more lucrative and resistant to demands for scrutiny than the beleaguered banking sector

  • Vol 50 No 12
  •  12th June 2009

Inside the four big oil traders

The oil trading companies, their owners and areas of operation

  • Vol 50 No 12
  •  12th June 2009

Hanging tough

African governments sense a new toughness in Washington’s Africa policy, a month before President Barack Obama’s state visit to Ghana on 10-11 July, officials have told Africa Confidential. There is some ambivalence: they believe Washington will focus mo...

  • Vol 50 No 10
  •  15th May 2009

Franc Afrique

Three important African allies of French President Nicolas Sarkozy could find their French assets under scrutiny after Juge d'Instruction Françoise Desset ruled on 6 May that an anti-corruption case against them (see AC 50 Vol 5) should proceed. The lawye...

  • Vol 50 No 8
  •  17th April 2009

The bust and after

Finance ministers and central bank governors are holding an African summit in Washington next week to map a way out of the crisis

  • Vol 50 No 8
  •  17th April 2009

And the good news

Amid the gloom lie some positives. African economies now have on average 5.7 months of reserves to cover imports, policy frameworks are sounder, government ministries are better staffed. The informal economy has a resilience that cannot be measured. Inter...

  • Vol 50 No 7
  •  3rd April 2009

Words like freedom

Telling the public the truth is getting more dangerous and expensive, as rulers and militias resist the development of a free press. The rate of targeted killings of journalists in Africa is rising fast. Governments and corrupt businesses are resorting to...

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