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  • Vol 48 No 14
  • 06/07/2007

BOOKS ON THE BOOM

Africa's oil boom has inspired three very different books, which investigate the links between the billions of petrodollars and the persistent poverty and oppression reigning in so many oil-rich states.

  • Vol 45 No 19
  • 24/09/2004

Wayne Fredericks

We were sad to hear of the death on 18 August of Wayne Fredericks, a member of Africa Confidential's editorial board, aged 87. Wayne was one of the last survivors of a remarkable generation of Americans for whom public service was a noble calling, whos...

  • Vol 45 No 14
  • 09/07/2004

The net widens

Officials in Abuja are intensifying a probe into commissions of more than US$180 million on a gas export plant following Africa Confidential's report last month that Nigeria's biggest construction company Julius Berger (and its German parent company, Bilf...

  • Vol 45 No 11
  • 28/05/2004

The East needs oil

Higher oil prices are helping Africa's producers and punishing its consumers

  • Vol 43 No 23
  • 22/11/2002

Work with sanctions

Business people keen to circumvent sanctions' should indeed, as we predicted, flock to a British government sponsored oil conference called 'Working with sanctions'

  • Vol 43 No 22
  • 08/11/2002

Sanctions no problem

Business people keen to circumvent sanctions should flock to a British-government sponsored conference in London on 26-27 November. 'Working with Sanctions' promises 'new market opportunities in country case studies on Afghanistan, Cuba, Nigeria, Angola, ...

  • Vol 43 No 6
  • 22/03/2002

Risky money

Oil companies meet human rights and political challenges in Africa's new fields

  • Vol 40 No 15
  • 23/07/1999

Totally elfin

The company which dominated many African economies may soon be transformed

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