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  • Vol 46 No 9
  • 29/04/2005

Back to DC

Washington's newish, enthusiastic Ambassador to South Africa, Jendayi E. Frazer, is heading back to base to take over as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, we hear. This follows the resignation last week of the incumbent Assistant Secre...

  • Vol 46 No 8
  • 15/04/2005

Papabile

The late Pope John Paul II won many admirers in Africa and visited 42 of 53 states. The choice of his successor interests Africa in two special ways. Could one of the eleven African cardinals (of 117) win and will the new Pope relax Church strictures (ke...

  • Vol 46 No 7
  • 01/04/2005

The end of a boom

Production is up, demand has slackened, politics are difficult and hopes are high

  • Vol 46 No 7
  • 01/04/2005

Dis-Harmony

Efforts by South Africa's Harmony to create the world's biggest gold mining group by taking over another SA mining house, Gold Fields, hit new problems this week with Harmony's admission that it had incorrectly classified 8.3 million ounces of gold as...

  • Vol 46 No 6
  • 18/03/2005

Mea culpa

How will the Blair Commission change British policy?

  • Vol 46 No 6
  • 18/03/2005

Moral choice

Ethically-inclined capitalists faced a tough choice in London on 17 March. Is it to be the Corporate Social Responsibility event at Chatham House backed by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, or the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative confer...

  • Vol 46 No 5
  • 04/03/2005

The Blair report - unveiled

The Africa Commission will call on rich countries to double aid budgets and open their markets immediately

  • Vol 46 No 5
  • 04/03/2005

The Africa Commission: people and money

The Africa Commission comprises 17 Commissioners including Prime Minister Tony Blair; Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown; International Development Minister Hilary Benn; South Africa's Finance Minister Trevor Manuel; and Tanzania's President Benjami...

  • Vol 46 No 2
  • 21/01/2005

Aid, trade and reform

Hopes are high for faster growth this year as G8 countries promise more backing for Africa

  • Vol 46 No 2
  • 21/01/2005

Heading higher

The International Monetary Fund's forecast of average growth of 5.8 per cent for sub-Saharan Africa this year is the region's best out-turn for 30 years. The bigger question is how higher growth will reduce Africa's poverty. The figures include fast-gr...

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