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- Vol 50 No 12
- 12/06/2009
Hanging tough
African governments sense a new toughness in Washington’s Africa policy, a month before President Barack Obama’s state visit to Ghana on 10-11 July, officials have told Africa Confidential. There is some ambivalence: they believe Washington will focus mo...
- Vol 50 No 8
- 17/04/2009
The Halliburton trials
Weeks after Information Minister Dora Akunyili announced a campaign to rehabilitate Nigeria’s international image, President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s government faces the strongest test of its corruption-fighting credentials in its response to the internatio...
- Vol 50 No 5
- 06/03/2009
Tesler trapped
Officers from Britain’s Serious Fraud Office arrested lawyer Jeffrey Tesler, 60, at his offices in Tottenham in London on 5 March in a move that will widen the international investigation into corrupt payments in Nigeria’s US$6 billion liquefied natural g...
- Vol 50 No 2
- 23/01/2009
No longer at ease
In the last months of President George Walker Bush's reign, US officials pressed the Khartoum regime over Darfur and Abyei by telling leaders, 'If you think we're tough, wait till the Democrats come in.' It didn't work then but it looks like no idle thr...
- Vol 49 No 21
- 17/10/2008
Obama rings the changes
African citizens enthuse about the prospect of an Obama presidency, but their governments are much more cautious
- Vol 49 No 21
- 17/10/2008
Diplomats on the campaign trail
Barack Obama is taking no chances on foreign policy, seen as one of his weaknesses against Senator John McCain who has been in Congress since 1983.
- Vol 49 No 20
- 03/10/2008
Alarmed allies
The United States government's facility for ignoring the crimes of its allies in the 'Global War on Terror' is again being challenged, this time from the inside. On 22 September, Senator Russell D. Feingold (Democrat, Wisconsin), Chairman of the S...
- Vol 49 No 19
- 19/09/2008
Exorcising demons
The United States Republican Party seems eager to rival the African credentials of Democratic contender Barack Obama with its international links. The Republicans’ Vice-Presidential candidate and Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, credits itinerant Kenya...
- Vol 49 No 10
- 09/05/2008
Oddly normal II
The rapprochement between Sudan and the United States continues apace but US Special Envoy Richard Williamson has warned that he does not foresee full 'normalisation' during his tenure and that stronger sanctions are still possible (AC Vol 49 No 9). T...
- Vol 49 No 9
- 25/04/2008
Oddly normal
Spies and diplomats are secretly negotiating the lifting of all US sanctions on Khartoum
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