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  • 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

  • Vol 46 No 14
  • 08/07/2005

No sugar daddy

As European politicians hugged rock stars and European citizens glowed with good will for Africa, African sugar producers were glum. On 22 June, the European Commission proposed slashing by 39 per cent over three years its subsidised domestic sugar pri...

  • Vol 46 No 11
  • 27/05/2005

WMD

The European Union has managed to persuade the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states to open negotiations on Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs), due to bring in free trade by 2008 in harmonisation with the World Trade Organisation. However, E...

  • Vol 45 No 15
  • 21/07/2004

Talking, at least

Amid the gloom around the Great Lakes, reviving the Communauté Economique des Pays des Grands Lacs (CEPGL) can do no harm and might do good. The Community, out of action since the Rwandan disaster of 1994, brings together Belgium's former coloni...

  • Vol 45 No 3
  • 04/02/2004

Replaying the aid game

Transforming Europe means changing its post-colonial trade relations too

  • Vol 44 No 22
  • 07/11/2003

Money, perhaps

The European Commission proposes to spend 250 million euros to back peacekeeping operations in Africa and European Union ministers will soon decide whether to go ahead. This was foreshadowed by Poul Nielson, the Danish European Development Commissioner, s...

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