Vol 48 No 20 | NIGERIAUNITED NATIONS A Katsina man in New York 5th October 2007 Nigeria's President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's maiden voyage to New York to speak at the United Nations General Assembly was choreographed by an improbable band of bankers, publishers, ...
Vol 47 No 22 | WORLD BANKINTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUNDUNITED NATIONS Upbeat Statisticians 3rd November 2006 The world economy may be slowing, interest rates rising, commodity prices falling and political risks increasing but the International Monetary Fund's World Economic Outlook for 20...
Vol 46 No 19 | UNITED NATIONS The good, the bad and the ugly rumours 23rd September 2005 An anti-genocide agreement, fine words on development and failure on human rights and disarmament mark the world's biggest summit As delegations from 191 governments choked New York's narrow streets, diplomats and United Nations' bureaucrats tried to craft an accord that tackled critical security and developm...
Vol 46 No 19 | UNITED NATIONS Insecurity council 23rd September 2005 Africa's ambitions to get two permanent seats on the United Nations Security Council are suspended until the end of the year when the troubled issue of its expansion and reform wil...
Vol 46 No 11 | SUDANUNITED NATIONS Watch this space 27th May 2005 We hear Jan Pronk, the United Nations Secretary General's Special Representative for Sudan since June, seeks another job. The Netherlands' former International Development Minister...
Vol 45 No 18 | SUDANUNITED NATIONS Forty days 10th September 2004 The United Nations Security Council looks set to fail another critical test: whether it has the will to protect civilians in Darfur from being slaughtered by their own government (...
Vol 45 No 18 | UNITED NATIONSWORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION Rude health 10th September 2004 The election of Angola's Dr. Luís Gomes Sambo as Africa Director of the United Nations' World Health Organisation, with 32 votes to seven for Burundi's Déogratias Bar...
Vol 45 No 15 | UNITED NATIONS Investigation 21st July 2004 News that a complaint of sexual harassment against the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Ruud Lubbers, has been dismissed has emerged as oddly as the story of the complain...
Vol 45 No 14 | SUDANUNITED STATESUNITED NATIONS Smiles and shadows 9th July 2004 With perhaps 1,000 people now dying every day in Darfur, Khartoum is still defying even the mild demands made last week by Colin Powell and Kofi Annan. The United States Secretary...
Vol 45 No 13 | CÔTE D'IVOIREUNITED NATIONS Tinkering with trouble 25th June 2004 The international community seems powerless to prevent the steady worsening of the crisis (AC Vol 45 No 11). A United Nations Security Council mission arrived on 22 June and the UN...