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  • Vol 42 No 3
  • 09/02/2001

How high the summit

The English-speakers stayed away and the meeting was cosy but bland

  • Vol 42 No 2
  • 26/01/2001

Not franc

The assassination of Congo-Kinshasa's President Laurent-Désiré Kabila played havoc with the running order at Cameroon's Franco-African summit, the 21st since 1973. Underlying the scheduled theme, 'L'Afrique - l'heure de la mondialisation' (A...

  • Vol 41 No 25
  • 22/12/2000

End of empire

The latest would-be peacemaker for Congo-Kinshasa is the President of neighbouring Congo-Brazzaville, Denis Sassou Nguesso.

  • Vol 41 No 24
  • 08/12/2000

Presidential pranks

France is rocked by scandals involving some former key Africa policy-makers. Ex-Minister of Cooperation for Development, Michel Roussin, was let out after five nights in gaol on 6 December on bail of 300,000 French francs (US$40,000) while police recently...

  • Vol 41 No 6
  • 17/03/2000

All change

A complex row over oil, French troops, and links with rebels has boiled over

  • Vol 40 No 19
  • 24/09/1999

Another Euroland

Prospects for economic union in West Africa, at least among the CFA Franc Zone countries, are looking up. The Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest-Africaine is pushing ahead with plans to abolish internal tariffs by 1 January. Dahuku Pere, who c...

  • Vol 40 No 16
  • 06/08/1999

Jacques' jaunt

President Jacques Chirac's four-country hurtle round West Africa (21-24 July) was a damp squib. He lacks the verve of his more cerebral predecessor François Mitterrand who had set much store by his own pro-democracy pronouncements at the La Ba...

  • Vol 40 No 15
  • 23/07/1999

Totally elfin

The company which dominated many African economies may soon be transformed

  • Vol 40 No 6
  • 19/03/1999

Franc-zone to Euroland

Europe's new currency is raising some tricky issues in Francophone Africa

  • Vol 40 No 6
  • 19/03/1999

Une autre entente II

The entente cordiale on Africa between London and Paris is warming up after Foreign Secretary Robin Cook and his French counterpart Hubert Védrine's double act in Accra and Abidjan on 10-11 March. While the stated goals – ‘clearer procedures for working ...

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