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  • Vol 46 No 1
  • 07/01/2005

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 las...

  • Vol 45 No 22
  • 05/11/2004

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 ...

  • Vol 45 No 1
  • 09/01/2004

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
  • 10/01/2003

From crisis to crisis

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

  • Vol 43 No 6
  • 22/03/2002

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...

  • Vol 43 No 4
  • 22/02/2002

New rebels, new danger

Guinean-backed war in Liberia may backfire on sponsors and unravel the Sierra Leone peace process

  • Vol 43 No 4
  • 22/02/2002

Rebels versus rebels

The Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD) rebellion seems to have started in April 1999, when rebels attacked Liberia from Guinea. After more fighting in north-western Liberia in August 1999, a character calling himself 'Mosquito Spray'...

  • Vol 43 No 1
  • 11/01/2002

Busy Presidents

Canvassing for investors, fighting elections, the region's leaders face a testing 2002

  • Vol 42 No 1
  • 12/01/2001

The centre isn't holding

Pressure for accountability and devolution of power is at the root of many of the continent's conflicts

  • Vol 41 No 22
  • 10/11/2000

The calabash bubbles

Almost everything that could go wrong in West Africa this year has contrived to do so. The region's biggest economies, Côte d'Ivoire and Nigeria, are hobbled by political unrest and mounting debts. Five of the war zones in the region - Guinea, Guine...

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