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- Vol 51 No 3
- 05/02/2010
Training the trainers
Uganda and the European Union are combining to train security forces for Somalia’s shaky Transitional Federal Government.
- Vol 50 No 24
- 04/12/2009
The East takes on the South
The new team of Eurocrats has little experience of Africa and may be surprised by what it finds
- Vol 50 No 24
- 04/12/2009
Mr Chambas goes to Brussels
After Mohammed ibn Chambas takes over as Secretary General of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group in Brussels on 1 March 2010, he will have to fight hard to reassert the coherence and sense of direction of this important lobby group and its relations...
- Vol 50 No 12
- 12/06/2009
Banana skin
A row is growing between the African-Caribbean-Pacific countries and the European Union. On 29 May, ACP trade ministers accused the EU of sacrificing development to commerce. They asked for 500 million euros (US$698 mn.) in compensation for the EU’s propo...
- Vol 50 No 3
- 06/02/2009
Ghana's chance
Ghana's Ambassador in Brussels, Nana Berna Kumi, is leading in an increasingly hard fought battle there for the post of Secretary General of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of countries. It's an important time for the ACP, which has been locked ...
- Vol 49 No 7
- 28/03/2008
Hotel Hellacious
A public relations jamboree in Khartoum on 10-13 March tried to persuade European politicians and businesses that they are missing out on billions of petrodollars because of Western hostility to President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir's regime. The impl...
- Vol 49 No 4
- 15/02/2008
Delays in deployment
As fighting in Chad worsens, Lieutenant General Nash promises all EUFOR troops will be on the ground by mid-May
- Vol 49 No 2
- 16/01/2008
Father and son
Congolese know about dynasties. Incumbent President Joseph Kabila is the son of his assassinated predecessor, Laurent Désirée Kabila, and the political scene in Kinshasa is peppered with the offspring of the late Mobutu Sese Seko, many aspiring to high of...
- Vol 48 No 22
- 02/11/2007
Brown's boycott
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s refusal to attend the European Union summit in Lisbon, Portugal, on 8-9 December alongside Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe plays well with Britain’s conservative newspapers.
- Vol 48 No 21
- 19/10/2007
Trading places
There is no agreement on revising Europe’s trade deal with Africa, so an agreement may be imposed
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