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  • Vol 45 No 14
  • 09/07/2004

419, and counting

Advanced Fee Frauds or '419s', have become as common in Ghana as in Nigeria, where they were invented. Ghanaian banks have published warnings in the press that their signatures or letterheads have been forged; e-mail has expanded the potential for dupes. ...

  • Vol 45 No 13
  • 25/06/2004

Genocide watch

As United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan is taking the heat for UN inaction on the Darfur genocide, Washington is under mounting pressure to act. Worried about 'another Rwanda' on his watch, United States Secretary of State Colin Powell has warned o...

  • Vol 45 No 13
  • 25/06/2004

Iraq first

After seven frustrating years, former United States Secretary of State James Baker III has resigned as the United Nations Secretary General's Special Envoy to Western Sahara. He is 74 and busy enough as George W. Bush's envoy for restructuring Iraq's huge...

  • Vol 44 No 22
  • 07/11/2003

Money, perhaps

The European Commission proposes to spend 250 million euros to back peacekeeping operations in Africa and European Union ministers will soon decide whether to go ahead. This was foreshadowed by Poul Nielson, the Danish European Development Commissioner, s...

  • Vol 43 No 11
  • 31/05/2002

Rightist regime

Africa will be a low priority for the new team at the Elysée and Quai d'Orsay

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