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  • Vol 49 No 20
  • 03/10/2008

Financial and political chaos

As equities and corporate fortunes plummeted outside, diplomats discussed aid pledges and peackeeping

  • Vol 49 No 20
  • 03/10/2008

The Millennium stops here

The Millennium Goals remain elusive and controversial

  • Vol 48 No 20
  • 05/10/2007

Debuts on First Avenue

A new guard at the UN takes over but Africa’s concerns remain peacekeeping, fairer trade and development funding

  • Vol 48 No 20
  • 05/10/2007

Ban Ki-moon's people

From the start of his tenure on 1 January, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was determined to make radical changes, install his own people and stamp his own priorities - climate change and a UN peacekeeping force for Darfur - on the organisati...

  • Vol 48 No 20
  • 05/10/2007

A Katsina man in New York

Nigeria's President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's maiden voyage to New York to speak at the United Nations General Assembly was choreographed by an improbable band of bankers, publishers, itinerant politicians and veteran diplomats. United States' diplomats h...

  • Vol 47 No 22
  • 03/11/2006

Upbeat Statisticians

The world economy may be slowing, interest rates rising, commodity prices falling and political risks increasing but the International Monetary Fund's World Economic Outlook for 2007 predicts that Africa will continue to show its strongest sustained gr...

  • Vol 46 No 19
  • 23/09/2005

The good, the bad and the ugly rumours

An anti-genocide agreement, fine words on development and failure on human rights and disarmament mark the world's biggest summit

  • Vol 46 No 19
  • 23/09/2005

Insecurity council

Africa's ambitions to get two permanent seats on the United Nations Security Council are suspended until the end of the year when the troubled issue of its expansion and reform will be raised again in the UN General Assembly (GA). UN Secretary General ...

  • Vol 46 No 11
  • 27/05/2005

Watch this space

We hear Jan Pronk, the United Nations Secretary General's Special Representative for Sudan since June, seeks another job. The Netherlands' former International Development Minister (65) hoped for a key role over Darfur, Africa Confidential understands...

  • Vol 45 No 18
  • 10/09/2004

Forty days

The United Nations Security Council looks set to fail another critical test: whether it has the will to protect civilians in Darfur from being slaughtered by their own government (AC Vol 45 No 17). Forty days after the Council gave Sudan's National Is...

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