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  • Vol 41 No 20
  • 13/10/2000

Racist rage

Racist hysteria against blacks in Libya has dented Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi's ambition to create a 'United States of Africa' (USA) next year. He proclaimed his plan to July's Organisation of African Unity summit in Lomé, Togo. Three months later,...

  • Vol 41 No 1
  • 07/01/2000

Reverse roles

West African politics wins again. Formerly coup-proof Côte d'Ivoire succumbs to a putsch de Noël and coup-prone Nigeria survives a military-orchestrated transition to civilian rule. Business people are much more optimistic than political an...

  • Vol 40 No 10
  • 14/05/1999

Publishing pearl

Several heavyweight Nigerian and Ghanaian business consortia are bidding for control of 82 year-old, London-based West Africa magazine, which on 24 March went into compulsory liquidation, following the non-arrival of funds from the Abuja government, i...

  • Vol 40 No 6
  • 19/03/1999

Down with tariffs

The Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest-Africaine (UEMOA), the economic and monetary union of the eight West African states of the Franc Zone, is nine months away from a brave experiment in economic integration. From 1 January tariffs, with very few excep...

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