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Vol 43 No 4
22nd February 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
22nd February 2002

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
11th January 2002

Busy Presidents

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

Vol 42 No 1
12th January 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
10th November 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...

Vol 41 No 20
13th October 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
7th January 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 analys...

Vol 40 No 10
14th May 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, indir...

Vol 40 No 6
19th March 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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