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- Vol 51 No 4
- 19/02/2010
Beating up the bankers
A Congressional probe shows how banks in the USA welcomed stolen funds from Angola, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Nigeria
- Vol 51 No 4
- 19/02/2010
If you sincerely want to be rich
In February, the United States Senate Subcommittee on Investigations produced evidence on the transfer of illicit and suspect funds from African regimes to the USA. Its report highlighted lax US regulatory standards and the dubious activities of high-prof...
- Vol 51 No 4
- 19/02/2010
The junta explains
The putschists use former Pentagon officials to polish their image
- Vol 51 No 4
- 19/02/2010
Quiet trips to DC
The National Congress Party (aka National Islamic Front) wants to stop the world challenging its planned April election victory. A quiet push last month on debt relief and the United States’ sanctions may not succeed this year but the diplomacy boosts the...
- Vol 51 No 3
- 05/02/2010
More money for the military
The Pentagon is expanding the reach and role of its new Africa command after a shaky start
- Vol 51 No 3
- 05/02/2010
Who’s who in Africom
Theresa Whelan, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence for African Affairs, General William ‘Kip’ Ward, Commander, Africom, Anthony Holmes, Deputy to the Commander for Civil-Military Activities, and Vice-Admiral Robert T. Moeller, Deputy, Military Operatio...
- Vol 51 No 3
- 05/02/2010
Warriors and diplomats
The United States Africa Command in Stuttgart, Germany, represents a remarkable shift in policy over little more than a decade. In 1995, a Defense Department memorandum concluded that ‘America’s security interests in Africa are very limited’ and that ‘ult...
- Vol 50 No 19
- 25/09/2009
American airlift
When United States special forces landed near the Shabaab-held Somalian town of Barawe to assassinate and carry off several members of the Al Shabaab jihadist group on 12 September, they changed the rules of engagement in the war in Somalia. This wil...
- Vol 50 No 17
- 28/08/2009
An American road to Khartoum
The road to Sudan is littered with the United States' special envoys and the most criticised, Scott Gration, is determined not to join the list of those who failed to persuade the Sudan government to make peace. He may find it easier to convince the r...
- Vol 50 No 17
- 28/08/2009
Let my people go
Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) will ask the United States to release a Somali terrorist suspect from Guantánamo Bay. Ismail Mahmoud Mohamed was a friend of and former advisor to President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, and they worked to...
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