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  • Vol 52 No 23
  •  18th November 2011

Perth pangs

The Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting (CHOGM) in Perth, Western Australia, at the end of October attracted 1,500 delegates, 80 of them from China. British Prime Minister David Cameron’s threat to tie aid to lifting of homophobic legislation in Afri...

  • Vol 50 No 24
  •  4th December 2009

Progress in Port of Spain

Rwanda and India emerged as the winners from an unexpectedly productive Commonwealth summit in Trinidad on 27-29 November

  • Vol 50 No 24
  •  4th December 2009

Africa dons its Commonwealth cap

Africa has played a critical role in the Commonwealth since its Secretariat was launched in 1965 at Marlborough House, a royal palace provided rent-free by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II. Although only one of the five secretaries general has been African, A...

  • Vol 48 No 24
  •  30th November 2007

Friendly in Kampala

The form and content of the Commonwealth are changing. The growing interest in the economic role of an organisation whose members include some of the most dynamic economies in Asia and Africa coincides with the election of a Secretary General from As...

  • Vol 48 No 24
  •  30th November 2007

Secretarial duties

Twenty prime ministers and sixteen presidents were present at the Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Kampala, Uganda, on 23-25 November. Many Commonwealth states have non-executive heads of state or even governors general, who formally represent Queen...

  • Vol 48 No 24
  •  30th November 2007

On the edges of the club

Rwanda became a virtual member of the Commonwealth at its 23-25 November summit in Kampala, partly due to President Yoweri Museveni's energetic support for visiting President Paul Kagame and the pair's determination to show their bilateral problems have b...

  • Vol 48 No 24
  •  30th November 2007

Regal rivalry

The Commonwealth summit last week provided an unrivalled opportunity for local monarchists to promote their own political agenda through unabashed adoration of Britain's octogenarian sovereign, portrayed in local newspapers as the world's greatest fashion...

  • Vol 48 No 18
  •  7th September 2007

Africa moves up the agenda

Choosing a new secretary general, acting on Zimbabwe, admitting extra members and the probable appearance of several fresh leaders will keep the commentators busy at November's Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting

  • Vol 48 No 18
  •  7th September 2007

Old timers and first timers

In Kampala, all eyes will be on Gordon Brown, by then British Prime Minister for four and a half months. The new Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary, David Miliband, and the Minister for Africa, Mark Malloch Brown (straight from Kofi Annan's team at the Un...

  • Vol 48 No 18
  •  7th September 2007

Secretarial duties

The Commonwealth's next chief executive will take over in April 2008 and there are three strong candidates for the secretary general's job: Kamalesh Sharma, Indian High Commissioner in London; Michael Frendo, Foreign Minister of Malta; and Mohan Kaul, als...

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