Vol 46 No 1 | WEST AFRICA Peace, or else 7th January 2005 If peace can be kept on track, six West African countries will be preparing for elections in 2005. Côte d'Ivoire may have to be dragged to the polls under threat of United Na...
Vol 45 No 22 | WEST AFRICA Loaded magazine 5th November 2004 Romanian-born Captain Avram Moskovitch wants £500,000 (US$918,850) from Ghana's state-owned Graphic Communications Group. This is in return for his 49 per cent stake in Afrim...
Vol 45 No 1 | WEST AFRICA Peace deals and petro-wealth 9th January 2004 Regional giant Nigeria will reflect West Africa's ambiguities in 2004: peace deals and petro-wealth but growing communal violence and hobbled economies (AC Vol 44 No 25). These str...
Vol 44 No 1 | WEST AFRICA From crisis to crisis 10th January 2003 Civil wars spilling across frontiers and fiercely fought elections make for a hard 2003 This year's West African agenda will be dominated by the conflict in Côte d'Ivoire and by the Nigerian election (AC Vol 43 No 25). France is getting increasingly sucked into ...
Vol 43 No 6 | WEST AFRICA Tote that barge 22nd March 2002 Shipping containers around West and Central Africa is twice as expensive as in other parts of the world. A private consortium now hopes to transform regional trade, with a service ...
Vol 43 No 4 | WEST AFRICA New rebels, new danger 22nd February 2002 Guinean-backed war in Liberia may backfire on sponsors and unravel the Sierra Leone peace process Both sides want to play up the recent rebel offensive against President Charles Taylor's regime. The rebels, calling themselves Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy, a...
Vol 43 No 4 | WEST AFRICA Rebels versus rebels 22nd February 2002 The Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD) rebellion seems to have started in April 1999, when rebels attacked Liberia from Guinea. After more fighting in north-w...
Vol 43 No 1 | WEST AFRICA Busy Presidents 11th January 2002 Canvassing for investors, fighting elections, the region's leaders face a testing 2002 Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo's agenda this year will be crowded with primaries and positioning for the 2003 elections. Although there is no doubt that he wants to stand for...
Vol 42 No 1 | WEST AFRICA The centre isn't holding 12th January 2001 Pressure for accountability and devolution of power is at the root of many of the continent's conflicts In the evening of 7 January in Accra, four West African heads of state were toasting the inauguration of the newly elected Ghanaian President, John Agyekum Kufuor. At the same time...
Vol 41 No 22 | WEST AFRICA The calabash bubbles 10th November 2000 Almost everything that could go wrong in West Africa this year has contrived to do so. The region's biggest economies, Côte d'Ivoire and Nigeria, are hobbled by political unr...