Vol 48 No 19 | UNITED STATESAFRICA Boots nearer to the ground 21st September 2007 Washington seeks Anglo-French support as it steps up its military presence in Africa British and French officers are being invited to join the United States’ planned Africa Command (AfriCom) as ‘fully integrated’ officers, US officials have told Africa Confidential. AfriCom’s Public...
Vol 48 No 17 | CANADAAFRICA Ottawa rewrites the diplomatic and commercial rules 24th August 2007 A fierce ideological battle is raging over Canada's foreign policy and the balance between its commitments to multilateralism and the United Nations, where it has been a stalwart provider of funds and peacekeepers, and its deepening alliance with its powerful neighbour, the United States. Canada's once vibrant enthusiasm for Africa is caught in the middle of this argument. In the left corner are the myriad critics of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government...
Vol 48 No 17 | CANADAAFRICA Non-Government Who's Who 24th August 2007 Stephen Lewis: United Nations' Special Envoy, HIV-AIDS in Africa, 2001-06; Deputy Director, UN Children's Fund, 1995-1999; Canada's Permanent Representative, UN, 1984-98; was Coordinator, Graça Machel study on children...
Vol 48 No 16 | FRANCEAFRICA Rapture not rupture 3rd August 2007 President Nicolas Sarkozy is billed as France's first post-colonial head of state but his first state visit to Africa did not presage a rupture with the Françafrique system....
Vol 48 No 14 | ECONOMYAFRICAOIL AND GAS Books on the boom 6th July 2007 Africa's oil boom has inspired three very different books, which investigate the links between the billions of petrodollars and the persistent poverty and oppression reigning in so many oil-rich states. Africa produces far less than the Middle East: around 2.6 million barrels a day from Nigeria and close to 2 mn. b/d from Angola by the end of...
Vol 48 No 14 | AFRICABRITAIN Brownie points 6th July 2007 British engagement in Africa and aid levels will continue to rise under Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who took over from Tony Blair on 27 June, government sources told...
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 48 No 12 | AFRICABRITAIN From Blair to Brown 8th June 2007 The economists are coming For the last decade, Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labour government has presided over the modernisation of British Africa policy, from one suited to the era of the Cold...
Vol 48 No 12 | AFRICABRITAIN Brown and the Brownites 8th June 2007 Little is known about new Prime Minister Gordon Brown's intentions on foreign policy or his choice of lieutenants, even though he has been the economic supremo in the...