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  • Vol 47 No 8
  •  14th April 2006

Shutting up shop

The decision by US-based risk consultants Kroll to shut down their Africa practice on 3 April appears to have been taken, oddly enough, because the US$1.9 billion company judged Africa to be just too risky. More precisely, it was probably insurers Marsh &...

  • Vol 46 No 22
  •  4th November 2005

Explosive uranium

Niger is at the centre of a row over intelligence used to justify the United States' invasion of Iraq and the deepening personal battle between President George W. Bush's White House and one of Washington's senior Africanist ambassadors, Joseph Wilson, ov...

  • Vol 46 No 9
  •  29th April 2005

Back to DC

Washington's newish, enthusiastic Ambassador to South Africa, Jendayi E. Frazer, is heading back to base to take over as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, we hear. This follows the resignation last week of the incumbent Assistant Secretary...

  • Vol 45 No 25
  •  17th December 2004

Don't sign anything

The United States wants to ensure that its citizens (and those of its ally, Israel) are not summonsed by the International Criminal Court (ICC), set up under the Rome Treaty to deal with crimes against humanity and genocide. Several countries in Africa, t...

  • Vol 45 No 21
  •  22nd October 2004

Specially designated

After declaring the Islamic African Relief Agency and five senior officials 'Specially Designated Global Terrorists' on 13 October, the United States may now ask the United Nations Sanctions Committee to include IARA on its 'asset freeze list'.

  • Vol 45 No 19
  •  24th September 2004

Swelling the great gas balloon

In camera testimony to a French judge drags more names through the Nigeriagate scandal

  • Vol 45 No 19
  •  24th September 2004

The Tesler tapes

Operating out of a modest solicitor's office in the north London suburb of Tottenham, Jeffrey Tesler cuts an improbable figure as the multi-millionaire agent arbitrating among heads of state, the world's biggest oil companies and Swiss bankers. Tesler's d...

  • Vol 45 No 17
  •  27th August 2004

World Banker

The United States president appoints the World Bank president. James Wolfensohn (AC Vol 45 No 14) finishes his second five-year term at the Bank on 31 May and has carefully not said whether he wants to stay on. Many are terrified that President George W. ...

  • Vol 45 No 14
  •  9th July 2004

Smiles and shadows

With perhaps 1,000 people now dying every day in Darfur, Khartoum is still defying even the mild demands made last week by Colin Powell and Kofi Annan. The United States Secretary of State and the United Nations Secretary General (in close touch for week...

  • Vol 45 No 5
  •  5th March 2004

Blowback

Investigations in France, Nigeria and the United States into claims that the US company Halliburton was party to a US$180 million slush fund to bribe Nigerian officials are growing in political significance. Two familiar questions are asked of US Vice-Pre...

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