Vol 1 (AAC) No 10 | KENYALIBYAINDIA Three is a crowd 3rd November 2008 Efforts by Kenya to push a compromise over a refineries contract between companies from Libya and India over oil are proving messy Kenya finally has succeeded in bringing together rival suitors for an oil refinery rehabilitation contract - but failed to secure an agreement. The acting Finance Minister, John Mi...
Vol 49 No 17 | MAURITANIA Quiet coup 22nd August 2008 President Abdallahi's sacking of top soldiers led to the return of military rule after little more than a year of democracy With little fuss and no shooting, on 6 August General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz took power in Nouakchott, overthrowing the elected President regarded as his protégé, S...
Vol 49 No 15 | KENYALIBYA The Colonel's shopping spree 18th July 2008 Libyan investment in Kenya has grown over the past three years from almost nothing to an estimated tens of billions of Kenya shillings. The Libyans are now on a shopping spree, wit...
Vol 49 No 7 | UGANDAWESTERN SAHARA The ex-revolutionary front 28th March 2008 Two dissimilar but durable leaders have more in common than might at first appear There is a long, if surprising, alliance between two very different African leaders: the puritanical President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni of Uganda and the extravagant Colonel Moammar...
Vol 49 No 1 | WESTERN SAHARA Unjust deserts in the Western Sahara 11th January 2008 Despite the intervention by the United States, which has seen two rounds of direct talks between the Moroccan government and the Polisario Front liberation movement, tensions are a...
Vol 48 No 25 | LIBYAFRANCE Pitching camp 14th December 2007 Serious divisions emerged in French President Nicolas Sarkozy's government over his lavish hosting of Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi.
Vol 48 No 21 | LIBYAUNITED STATES Security seats 19th October 2007 The election of Libya to a seat on the United Nations Security Council on 16 October offers an opportunity for Mohamed Seif al-Islam, the son of leader Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi, ...
Vol 48 No 19 | MOROCCO Best election dirhams could buy 21st September 2007 Elections will produce a functioning government but, troublingly, few Moroccans seem to care Money changed hands and local notables manoeuvred in constituencies across the kingdom to deliver seats for their political allies in the 7 September general elections. Yet abuses ...
Vol 48 No 16 | MOROCCO Electoral arithmetic 3rd August 2007 The Islamist PJD is not exactly in freefall but unexpectedly close elections in September could trigger difficult decisions for King Mohammed Moroccans will vote in September in general elections that are far from a foregone conclusion. Expected for months to emerge as the biggest party, the 'moderate Islamist' Parti de ...
Vol 48 No 16 | MOROCCO Parties turn to the young guards 3rd August 2007 As parties vie for votes, much emphasis is placed on younger politicians. Leading Istiqlal's charge is the young trio of Equipment and Transport Minister Karim Ghellab, ebullient H...