After three decades, President Mubarak is determined to keep a grip on power for as long as it takes to prepare his son Gamal to succeed him
The suggestions that the internationally respected diplomat Mohamed Mostafa el Baradei is an enemy of the Egyptian state show the desperation of the power clique around the fading,...
First Lady Suzanne Mubarak (née Thabet, born in El Minya to an Egyptian doctor and his Welsh wife) is increasingly important in politics, building national alliances and an interna...
Foreign Affairs Minister, Libya
Libya's Foreign Minister Musa Kusa was among
the first of a wave of African ministers who are loudly and publicly
criticising China's activities. In a 10 November interview
with...
Vol 50 No 24 |
- ALGERIA
- EGYPT
Algeria and Egypt stopped just short of war over qualification for the 2010 football World Cup in South Africa. We hear that President Abdelaziz Bouteflika had considered a special...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 1 |
- MOROCCO
- CHINA
China's Ambassador to Morocco
China's chief envoy to Morocco is an experienced
Africa hand, managing the 2006 Forum on China-Africa Cooperation
(FOCAC) held in Beijing. Now Ambassador to Morocco, consistently...
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Ben Ali wins a crushing victory and another five years in power
President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali saved his allies from a little of the usual embarrassment at his 26 October re-election by polling only 89.62% of the vote, down from 94.4% in 200...
Forty years after his El Fatah Revolution, Libyan leader Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi gave his first address to the United Nations General Assembly on 23 September with a meandering, 94-minute speech from which Western leaders made sure they absented themselves. The upset caused by the homecoming celebration for Abdelbaset al Megrahi, convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, showed that Gadaffi's diplomatic rehabilitation was far from complete, despite his regime's abandoning its nuclear weapons programme in 2003 and reopening its oil industry to foreign investors.
Sporting a rust-brown robe and a black cap, Moammar el Gadaffi opened his address to the General Assembly with a greeting to 'our son Obama' on behalf of the 1,000 African kings he...
Vol 50 No 19 |
- LIBYA
- BRITAIN
Britain's release of convicted terrorist Abdelbaset al Megrahi has prompted widespread criticism (especially from Washington), but Whitehall officials judged it worth the price o...
Power in Libya is concentrated around Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi's family and a select group of politicians
Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi: the 67-year old Brother Leader of the Revolution is still in complete command. All speculation about his children's influence must be put in the context...
