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  • Vol 42 No 12
  •  15th June 2001

The Blair mission

After a second landslide, Britain's PM promises more time for Africa this term

  • Vol 42 No 7
  •  6th April 2001

Entente partiale

The latest episode in the convergence of Africa policy between France and Britain - a Whitehall-sponsored conference of officials, academics and journalists from both countries on 2 April - showed outstanding differences between the two in West and Centra...

  • Vol 42 No 4
  •  23rd February 2001

Peace budget

Britain's Labour government, whose proclaimed ethical foreign policy has been under fire since the Sandline affair in Sierra Leone (AC Vol 39 No 5), wants to show it takes Africa seriously. Prime Minister Tony Blair takes a personal interest: he speaks re...

  • Vol 41 No 21
  •  27th October 2000

Preferment

The sacking and subsequent police questioning of Michael Lunt, an Egypt desk officer at Britain's Department of Trade and Industry, raises new concerns about the accountabilty of British trade promotion efforts in Africa, business sources say.

  • Vol 41 No 19
  •  29th September 2000

Kanu help?

Nwankwo Kanu of Nigeria, the current African Player of the Year who now plys his trade in Britain after spells in Holland and Italy, is telling British newspapers that he is unhappy and playing below par at Arsenal Football Club, the famous Premiership te...

  • Vol 41 No 16
  •  4th August 2000

Intimidation

Some of the questions we ask may be too personal but our aim is to ensure that you will not become a burden on the British taxpayer'. This daunting message, posted up in Arabic, greets visa applicants at the British Embassy, Khartoum.

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