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  • Vol 45 No 15
  •  21st July 2004

Clay's feat

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

  • Vol 40 No 21
  •  22nd October 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-ele...

  • Vol 40 No 16
  •  6th August 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
  •  30th April 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
  •  30th April 1999

Whitehall's Africa team

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

  • Vol 40 No 6
  •  19th March 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 ...

  • Vol 40 No 4
  •  19th February 1999

Spinning south

Conflicting reports have emerged about British former Trade and Industry Minister Peter Mandelson’s offer to help the African National Congress 1999 election campaign. The project doesn’t look particularly challenging: most independent analyst...

  • Vol 40 No 2
  •  22nd January 1999

Une autre entente

It is a reflection of how grave the region’s spiralling conflicts are that Britain and France are now working more closely on Africa policy than at any time since General Charles de Gaulle established a base for the Free French (Resistance) in West Africa...

  • Vol 40 No 2
  •  22nd January 1999

Abidjan's anglos

Any diplomatic damage caused by the postponement of President Henri Konan Bédié’s official visit to Britain (AC Vol 39 No 24) seems to have been repaired fast. Whitehall’s Minister for Africa Tony Lloyd stopped over in Abidjan on a whistle-stop tour of We...

  • Vol 40 No 1
  •  8th January 1999

The long arm

The Pinochet effect persists in Britain with the trial, now expected this March, of a Sudanese doctor who is charged with committing torture and omitting to prevent it in Sudan (AC Vol 38 No 19). The trial had been due to open this coming week but on 6 Ja...

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