Vol 47 No 24 | MAURITANIA No win, no gain 1st December 2006 The military regime gets the election result it wanted, with no party strong enough to govern There was no winner in the parliamentary elections on 19 November, the first since Colonel Ely Ould Mohamed Vall's coup of 3 August 2005 (AC Vol 45 No...
Vol 47 No 24 | MAURITANIA Investigation down under 1st December 2006 Woodside Petroleum is Mauritania's largest foreign investor by far. It has sunk around US$1 billion into its Chinguetti offshore project, pumping the only oil between the North Sea...
Vol 47 No 20 | EGYPTAFRICA Pride and prejudice 6th October 2006 A row over a pan-African trade bank threatens Cairo's diplomatic and commercial standing Mild-mannered Ivorian banker Jean-Louis Ekra is an improbable figure to be in the eye of a continental storm. But a diplomatic storm is indeed brewing as the dispute...
Vol 47 No 20 | EGYPTAFRICA Cairo's costly hubris 6th October 2006 The dispute over Afreximbank could prove expensive diplomatically and commercially for Egypt. This week Afreximbank began considering legal action against at least one of two state-owned Egyptian banks,...
Vol 47 No 3 | ALGERIA The President's generals 3rd February 2006 The President may be back but succession rumours are festering President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has spent much of the last three months in the Val-de-Grâce military hospital in Paris, being treated for what was eventually announced to be a...