Vol 48 No 1 | WEST AFRICA Annivesaries and elections 12th January 2007 Voters gather in Nigeria, Mali and Senegal while diplomats head to Accra for celebrations and summits Nigeria’s national elections in April are the most critical event scheduled this year in Africa. If they go well, Nigeria may be able to consolidate civilian rule and make progres...
Vol 48 No 1 | WEST AFRICA Candidates and rivals 12th January 2007 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...
Vol 47 No 1 | WEST AFRICA Oil and oligarchs 6th January 2006 Oil bonanzas, succession struggles and post-war elections make an explosive regional cocktail There is hot speculation about whether President Olusegun Obasanjo wants to amend the constitution and secure a third term which, according to some elder statesmen, could damage hi...
Vol 46 No 16 | WEST AFRICA Oil, dollars and votes 5th August 2005 Elections and energy security are focusing more attention on the region's flashpoints An economic revolution is brewing along Africa's western seaboard. So far, its regional organisations - the Economic Community of West African States and the Southern African Devel...
Vol 46 No 1 | WEST AFRICA Peace, or else 7th January 2005 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 Na...
Vol 45 No 22 | WEST AFRICA Loaded magazine 5th November 2004 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 Afrim...
Vol 45 No 1 | WEST AFRICA Peace deals and petro-wealth 9th January 2004 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 str...
Vol 44 No 1 | WEST AFRICA From crisis to crisis 10th January 2003 Civil wars spilling across frontiers and fiercely fought elections make for a hard 2003 This year's West African agenda will be dominated by the conflict in Côte d'Ivoire and by the Nigerian election (AC Vol 43 No 25). France is getting increasingly sucked into ...
Vol 43 No 6 | WEST AFRICA Tote that barge 22nd March 2002 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 ...
Vol 43 No 4 | WEST AFRICA New rebels, new danger 22nd February 2002 Guinean-backed war in Liberia may backfire on sponsors and unravel the Sierra Leone peace process Both sides want to play up the recent rebel offensive against President Charles Taylor's regime. The rebels, calling themselves Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy, a...