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Vol 49 No 6
14th March 2008

King Bauxite

Known as the Bauxite King, Victor Dahdaleh is at the centre of a US case in which the Gulf State of Bahrain accuses him and the US company Alcoa of running a conspiracy involving overcharging, fraud and bribery to the tune of more than US$1 billion. The...

Vol 49 No 5
29th February 2008

Bush, the farewell tour

President George Bush's five-country African tour on 16-21 February met with varied reactions. He was burned in effigy in Dar es Salaam and praised in Kigali by Irish singer and activist Bob Geldof, who said that Bush has 'done more (for Africa) than any ...

Vol 49 No 5
29th February 2008

Not on parade

The planned new military headquarters will stay in Europe because of the widespread hostility to it in Africa

Vol 48 No 21
19th October 2007

Security seats

The election of Libya to a seat on the United Nations Security Council on 16 October offers an opportunity for Mohamed Seif al-Islam, the son of leader Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi, to be appointed as Tripoli's permanent representative to the UN at this cri...

Vol 48 No 19
21st September 2007

Boots nearer to the ground

Washington seeks Anglo-French support as it steps up its military presence in Africa

Vol 48 No 13
22nd June 2007

All aboard

The new United States Africa Command (Africom) is not yet operational but the US Navy plans to put ships into the Gulf of Guinea before the formal start-up. A transition team in Stuttgart, Germany, hopes to have the command structure ready by autumn 2008.

Vol 48 No 8
13th April 2007

Rendition confusion

The United States' War on Terror is catching many innocent people in its crossfire and hundreds of these are held incommunicado by the Ethiopian and Kenyan authorities on suspicion of terrorism, according to US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Britain's...

Vol 47 No 25
15th December 2006

Washington shuffle

The new Democratic Congress will press the Bush administration harder on Africa

Vol 47 No 22
3rd November 2006

Boots on the ground

The Pentagon wants to raise the cash for a unified Africa command to boost its counter-terror operations and energy security

Vol 47 No 8
14th April 2006

Foreign funds

Disquiet is growing over President George Bush's policy in Somalia amid reports of an executive security order to arm a local 'antiterrorist alliance' in contravention of the United Nations' arms embargo. Officially formed on 18 February, the Alliance for...

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