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  • Vol 50 No 7
  •  3rd April 2009

Don't forget your SIM card

Sub-Saharan Africa is not famous for technological innovation but a report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology indicates that mobile telephone use has grown twice as quickly there as anywhere else in the world. Even in tiny Rwanda, the governme...

  • Vol 50 No 7
  •  3rd April 2009

Libya and its African brothers

The row in Africa over migration weakens progress towards the African Union's aims of the free movement of people, goods and services across the continent, says Albert Ouédraogo, Chairman of Le Tocsin (the Alarm) a support group for expelled migrants. Alm...

  • Vol 50 No 6
  •  20th March 2009

After the economic crash, the political fallout

Bankers in Dar es Salaam last week predicted a catastrophic downturn in African economies unless serious measures were implemented. These would have to include substantial packages for Africa's economies. Nancy Birdsall of the Center for Global Developmen...

  • Vol 50 No 6
  •  20th March 2009

Sub-Saharan Africa's Economic Outlook: The Crisis Deepens

The facts and figures behind Africa's economic growth in 2009 and beyond

  • Vol 50 No 5
  •  6th March 2009

Unfinished business

President Sarkozy faces awkward questions about his stopovers in Brazzaville, Kinshasa and Niamey this month

  • Vol 50 No 4
  •  20th February 2009

Don't shoot the ambulance

After a decade of growth in Africa, the IMF and World Bank's economists are offering loans and policy advice again

  • Vol 50 No 4
  •  20th February 2009

The indispensable Manuel

South African Finance Minister Trevor Manuel, despised by African National Congress President Jacob Zuma's bedrock supporters on the party's left and populist wings, is busy making himself indispensable. In his 13th budget, presented on 11 February, Manue...

  • Vol 50 No 2
  •  23rd January 2009

Credits crunched

Africa advisor at the Elysée Bruno Joubert will be awaiting a ruling by Paris's parquet on the admissibility of a civil case against Gabon's President Omar Bongo Ondimba, Congo-Brazzaville's President Denis Sassou-Nguesso and Equatorial Guinea's Pr...

  • Vol 49 No 25
  •  12th December 2008

Jungle justice

Lingering court cases such as the murder of Judge Bernard Borrel in Djibouti, the Angolagate arms trial and the arrest of Rwanda’s Rose Kabuye cast a shadow over French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s promised reforms of Africa policy.

  • Vol 49 No 24
  •  28th November 2008

Slowdown hits the sparklers

New diamond mines no longer seem the prospect they once were

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