Vol 2 (AAC) No 9 | ALGERIACHINAAFRICANORTH AFRICABRIEFING Al Qaida may target Chinese in Africa 31st July 2009 More signs are emerging that China is being drawn inexorably into Africa's internal politics and is being compelled to take sides in wider geopolitical disputes. This time, the t...
Vol 50 No 15 | MAURITANIA Aziz's strong-arm vote 24th July 2009 General Mohammed Ould Abdel Aziz's victory in the 18 July presidential election confirmed that the former Bataillon de la Sécurité Presidentielle commander turned cou...
Vol 50 No 12 | LIBYABELGIUM Weapons for Darfur 12th June 2009 As Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi and his 200-member delegation pitched their tent for a business bonanza in Rome, it emerged that Belgium is to export weapons to Libya that may be us...
Vol 50 No 8 | ALGERIA Victory in a vacuum 17th April 2009 This time, rigging the election turnout was more important than rigging the vote Since there was no heavyweight candidate to stand against him, it was little surprise that President Abdelaziz Bouteflika was re-elected with 90.24% of the vote in the 9 April elec...
Vol 50 No 8 | ALGERIA The contenders 17th April 2009 According to the official result, confirmed by the Constitutional Council on 14 April, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika was re-elected with 90.24% of the vote, from a 74.6% turnout. ...
Vol 50 No 8 | EGYPT Hamas and Hezbollah 17th April 2009 Last week, President Hosni Mubarak’s government arrested 49 Egyptians, Sudanese and others whom it accuses of forming Hezbollah cells in Egypt, planning attacks on Israeli tourists...
Vol 50 No 7 | LIBYAWEST AFRICAMIGRATION Aller-retour 3rd April 2009 Huge numbers of West Africans hope to make a living abroad but find barriers in neighbouring countries and the rich West The loss of more than 200 lives on 30 March, when a ship carrying African migrants to Europe sank off the coast of Libya, prompted calls for rich countries to ease their strictures...
Vol 50 No 7 | LIBYAAFRICAMIGRATION Libya and its African brothers 3rd April 2009 The row in Africa over migration weakens progress towards the African Union's aims of the free movement of people, goods and services across the continent, says Albert Ouédraogo, C...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 3 | EGYPT Ibrahim Ali Hassan 29th January 2009 Assistant Foreign Minister for African Affairs, Egypt The Assistant Foreign Minister for African Affairs is a fixture at the major Asian development events, the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation and the Tokyo International Conferenc...
Vol 50 No 1 | MOROCCO Reform-minded monarch 9th January 2009 King Mohammed is an absolute monarch but paradoxically, he is the region’s most reform-minded head of state. Mohammed VI will celebrate his first decade as Al Amir al Mouminin (‘Commander of the Faithful’) on 23 July. At 47, ‘M6’ is more than 20 years younger than the region’s other leade...