England’s Football Association (FA) may be interested in the links between Alexandre Gaydamak, the declared owner of Portsmouth Football Club, and arms-dealing companies that have emerged in the ‘Angolagate’ trial in Paris (AC Vol 49 No 19). ‘Sacha’ Gayda...
Those who thought that the 1999 split in the National Islamic front, when Hassan Abdullah el Turabi was officially sidelined, would seriously change Khartoum’s Islamist regime might be surprised to see leaders from each faction appearing together at an in...
Britain’s Virgin Atlantic has lost the first round in its battle with
Nigeria’s government and is expected to sell all but 7% of
its 49% stake in the lossmaking Virgin Nigeria Airways (VNA), which
operates on domestic routes and regional We...
On 26 June, Malabo quietly dropped a three-year campaign to
pursue some of the alleged architects of the 2004 mercenary coup
plot for civil damages in England (AC Vol 49 No 13). The High
Court in London had in 2005 already thrown out the case for compe...
British banks could face awkward questions after police in
London charged Theresa Nkoyo Ibori, wife of former Delta
State Governor James Ibori, with money laundering on 20
May. She was granted bail but had to surrender her passport.
Britain’s Conservative Party, which has been campaigning against the Sudan government’s Darfur policy, faces charges of hypocrisy after it accepted more than US$800,000 in contributions from a United States’ mutual fund with massive indirect investments i...
Britain’s former Prime Minister Tony Blair landed in Kigali on 23 February on his mission to give ‘unpaid’ advice to the Rwandan government and to his ‘long standing friend’ President Paul Kagame on how to streamline government and attract investment. ‘I ...
Investigations into the relations between Zimbabwean ministers and Britain’s Barclays Bank may reopen following the admission by several ruling party politicians that they operate accounts with the bank in contravention of European Union sanctions.
Western sanctions on Zimbabwe appear to be unravelling ahead of
the European Union/African Union summit in Lisbon on 8-9 December.
The Harare delegation is to push for the EU to end all financial
restrictions on President Robert Mugabe's government.
Relations between Britain and South Africa, not helped by the
Springboks’ 15-6 defeat of England in the Rugby World Cup in
Paris on
20 October, have become poisonous again over Zimbabwe.
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