- Vol 54 No 4
- 15th February 2013
As EU members cut public spending, funds to Africa shrink and promised aid percentages are under pressure
- Vol 53 No 6
- 16th March 2012
Afrikaners complaining of a ‘Boer genocide’ are joining forces with far-right members of the European Parliament to protest the murder of white farmers in South Africa. In 2010, they had filed complaints against South African politicians over ‘genocidal h...
- Vol 52 No 5
- 4th March 2011
Opposition candidates declared the first round of the presidential
election on 23 January tainted (‘vicié’), putting President François Bozizé’s 64.7% share of the
vote in doubt (AC Vol 51 No 25). The European Union, which had paid 60%
of the cost of...
- Vol 52 No 4
- 18th February 2011
European companies want cheaper raw materials and propose ways of getting them from Africa
- Vol 51 No 23
- 19th November 2010
The first big question for the European Union-Africa summit in Tripoli on 29-30 November is who will be there. By convention, the Libyan hosts choose their guests. The EU had hoped that Sudan’s detested President Omer el Beshir wouldn’t be among them but ...
- Vol 51 No 22
- 5th November 2010
The EU’s obstinacy over trade concessions to Africa is encouraging frustrated governments to turn increasingly to Asia
- Vol 51 No 22
- 5th November 2010
Strong criticism has been levelled at European Union and Western companies for failing to match the pace of Asian investment in African agriculture. A new report published in London says agricultural subsidies paid to European farmers still tilt the marke...
- Vol 51 No 22
- 5th November 2010
Africa is larger, politically more varied and much poorer than the island states that constitute its colleagues in the African-Caribbean-Pacific (ACP) group. Like them, its relationship with the European Union is inherited from the colonial period but the...
- Vol 51 No 20
- 8th October 2010
In trying to sort out its relations with Africa, Brussels
takes care to befriend its main trading partner on the continent
- Vol 51 No 3
- 5th February 2010
Uganda and the European Union are combining to train security forces for Somalia’s shaky Transitional Federal Government.