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  • Vol 46 No 6
  • 18/03/2005

Moral choice

Ethically-inclined capitalists faced a tough choice in London on 17 March. Is it to be the Corporate Social Responsibility event at Chatham House backed by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, or the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative confer...

  • Vol 46 No 5
  • 04/03/2005

The Blair report - unveiled

The Africa Commission will call on rich countries to double aid budgets and open their markets immediately

  • Vol 46 No 5
  • 04/03/2005

The Africa Commission: people and money

The Africa Commission comprises 17 Commissioners including Prime Minister Tony Blair; Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown; International Development Minister Hilary Benn; South Africa's Finance Minister Trevor Manuel; and Tanzania's President Benjami...

  • Vol 46 No 3
  • 04/02/2005

Who's spooking who?

Reports that British intelligence is training Sudan government spies raise awkward questions about policy following the 1 February release of a 244-page United Nations report detailing the involvement of Khartoum's security services in crimes against h...

  • Vol 45 No 15
  • 21/07/2004

Clay's feat

Whitehall's envoy breaks with eumphemism and talks straight on graft

  • Vol 40 No 21
  • 22/10/1999

Au secours!

Commerce Minister Khalifa Sall amazed British business audiences in Belfast, Glasgow and London by saying he wanted Senegal to be 'saved' from the influence of Paris. More conventionally, Sall, a cheerleader for President Abdou Diouf's campaign for re...

  • Vol 40 No 16
  • 06/08/1999

Out of Africa

Peter Hain's appointment as Britain's Minister of State for Africa is likely to push African concerns a few notches higher up the Whitehall totem pole.

  • Vol 40 No 9
  • 30/04/1999

Diplomacy with attitude

The Labour government's ideas of an ethical foreign policy and activist diplomacy have met their toughest test in Africa's conflicts

  • Vol 40 No 9
  • 30/04/1999

Whitehall's Africa team

After an eventful two years for politics and personalities, Africa is getting more space

  • Vol 40 No 6
  • 19/03/1999

Une autre entente II

The entente cordiale on Africa between London and Paris is warming up after Foreign Secretary Robin Cook and his French counterpart Hubert Védrine's double act in Accra and Abidjan on 10-11 March. While the stated goals – ‘clearer procedures for working ...

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