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  • Vol 50 No 12
  •  12th June 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
  •  6th February 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
  •  28th March 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 implicit...

  • Vol 49 No 4
  •  15th February 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
  •  16th January 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
  •  2nd November 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
  •  19th October 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
  •  8th July 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 price,...

  • Vol 46 No 11
  •  27th May 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, Euro...

  • Vol 45 No 15
  •  21st July 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 colonies,...

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