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  • Vol 48 No 13
  •  22nd June 2007

All aboard

The new United States Africa Command (Africom) is not yet operational but the US Navy plans to put ships into the Gulf of Guinea before the formal start-up. A transition team in Stuttgart, Germany, hopes to have the command structure ready by autumn 2008.

  • Vol 48 No 1
  •  12th January 2007

Annivesaries and elections

Voters gather in Nigeria, Mali and Senegal while diplomats head to Accra for celebrations and summits

  • Vol 48 No 1
  •  12th January 2007

Candidates and rivals

One of the few genuinely popular public officials in Nigeria, Nuhu Ribadu, head of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission will be a key player in the electoral cycle. Fond of dark suits, his targets are many – and his track record impressive. The po...

  • Vol 47 No 1
  •  6th January 2006

Oil and oligarchs

Oil bonanzas, succession struggles and post-war elections make an explosive regional cocktail

  • Vol 46 No 16
  •  5th August 2005

Oil, dollars and votes

Elections and energy security are focusing more attention on the region's flashpoints

  • Vol 46 No 1
  •  7th January 2005

Peace, or else

If peace can be kept on track, six West African countries will be preparing for elections in 2005. Côte d'Ivoire may have to be dragged to the polls under threat of United Nations sanctions, while in Nigeria President Olusegun Obasanjo has a last ch...

  • Vol 45 No 22
  •  5th November 2004

Loaded magazine

Romanian-born Captain Avram Moskovitch wants £500,000 (US$918,850) from Ghana's state-owned Graphic Communications Group. This is in return for his 49 per cent stake in Afrimedia International, the Graphic subsidiary which published London-based Wes...

  • Vol 45 No 1
  •  9th January 2004

Peace deals and petro-wealth

Regional giant Nigeria will reflect West Africa's ambiguities in 2004: peace deals and petro-wealth but growing communal violence and hobbled economies (AC Vol 44 No 25). These stretch from established multi-party systems such as Ghana and Senegal to civi...

  • Vol 44 No 1
  •  10th January 2003

From crisis to crisis

Civil wars spilling across frontiers and fiercely fought elections make for a hard 2003

  • Vol 43 No 6
  •  22nd March 2002

Tote that barge

Shipping containers around West and Central Africa is twice as expensive as in other parts of the world. A private consortium now hopes to transform regional trade, with a service that would replace European shipping lines such as Denmark's Maersk and Del...

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