Vol 3 (AAC) No 9 | JAPANAFRICA A whale's tale 20th July 2010 Tokyo has been caught trying to bribe African countries to gain support in its quest to overturn an international ban on commercial whaling National pride comes before a fall. Reports that Tokyo has routinely bribed at least six African countries to vote in support of its whaling policy have embarrassed the Japanese government. This...
Vol 48 No 13 | FRANCEAFRICA Sarko's team 22nd June 2007 New Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner has won his battle to keep development policy in his Ministry, rather than in the new Immigration Ministry under the right-wing Brice Hortefeux,...
Vol 50 No 22 | ECONOMYAFRICA Experts argue about Africa's prospects 6th November 2009 The IMF and the AfDB differ sharply on the severity of the global recession's effects on Africa and the measures needed to ameliorate them The world's financial experts and institutions disagree on how seriously the global financial crash has affected developing economies or how quickly they may recover. In Africa, the International...
Vol 62 No 9 | UNITED STATESAFRICA No more picking winners 29th April 2021 'No special favours' for individual countries but, instead, 'broad engagement' with Africa was the message from Robert Godec, the United States African Affairs Acting Assistant Secretary, ahead of...
Vol 47 No 23 | AFRICAURANIUM Digging a black hole 17th November 2006 As the oil price soars, nuclear power is back in fashion and the uranium to fuel it booms, the speculators get to work The quoted price for uranium was recently just US$8 per pound. Now it is above US$60. David Miller, a geologist and market analyst, reckons that could double until...