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  • Vol 45 No 22
  •  5th November 2004

A very private war II

Erynis Iraq replies to Africa Confidential

  • Vol 45 No 12
  •  11th June 2004

A very private war

A Pretoria-based military company is at the centre of a security row in Iraq

  • Vol 45 No 4
  •  20th February 2004

Bombed out

The death of ex-special forces officer Frans Strydom in a bomb explosion in Baghdad in early February is focusing attention on South African mercenaries doing security work in Iraq.

  • Vol 44 No 8
  •  18th April 2003

Odious debt

Forthcoming negotiations on cancelling much of Iraq's US$120-130 billion debt will have repercussions for Africa's most indebted states. Defenders of the status quo on poor country debt will be hardpressed if one of history's biggest write-offs ever goes ...

  • Vol 44 No 6
  •  21st March 2003

Catching the flak

Africa opposes a war in Iraq which will worsen the region's economic and security problems

  • Vol 44 No 6
  •  21st March 2003

The new American way

Africa's hopes of fairer trade, debt relief and more help to tackle the AIDS pandemic are being thwarted by deepening divisions between rich countries over the Iraq war. Growing animosity between the United States-United Kingdom axis and the Franco-German...

  • Vol 44 No 6
  •  21st March 2003

Oil empires

Some US hawks see African oil as a strategic alternative to Gulf oil. The reality is less dramatic

  • Vol 44 No 5
  •  7th March 2003

Bum steer

The National Islamic Front government aims to persuade the West it holds the smoking gun on Iraq, we hear. To attack President Saddam Hussein, the United States and Britain desperately seek a substantive link between his secular Baathist regime and Al Qai...

  • Vol 43 No 19
  •  27th September 2002

Uranium trail

British Premier Tony Blair's claim that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein tried to get 'significant quantities of uranium from Africa' seems to be drawn from sources in South Africa and Congo-Kinshasa.

  • Vol 40 No 2
  •  22nd January 1999

Political chemistry

A key reason why the United States bombed El Shifa factory on 20 August (AC Vol 39 No 17) was because of its links to Iraq, Africa Confidential has learned. US and British intelligence feared the pharmaceuticals plant was a secret route by which Iraq wa...

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