Just when oil markets needed abundant West African crude supplies (AC Vol 44 No 6), an explosion of violence in Delta State has cut off a third of Nigerian production. Attacks by Ijaw youth groups on 22-23 March forced ChevronTexaco, Shell and TotalFinaEl...
Shaky administration and growing political violence threaten the
credibility of April's national elections
The ruling PDP's grip on the state governors is under attack from
all sides
France's triumphal return to Africa is marred only slightly by
the tricky problems it faces there
A soldier - serving or retired - will be running Nigeria by June after a hard fought election
The main milestone in preparations for the 2003 elections will be the Nominating Convention of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on 3-5 January, probably at Eagle Square, Abuja.
After the loss of more than 200 lives in riots blamed on the attempt to hold the Miss World contest in Abuja, a row is erupting over how the beauty pageant was financed.
A symbol of regional cooperation, the Nigeria-São Tomé e Príncipe Joint Development Zone (JDZ), launched only in January, looks close to collapse.
On 2 October Nigeria banned imports of all textiles in a bid to revive its own ailing industry. It now depends on imports from Asia, some of them produced with Nigerian cotton sold via French traders to India and China. The ban seems aimed at China, which...
Is the money running out, or might an oil war happen in the
nick of time?
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