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How Turkana’s promises of oil riches became a pipe dream

The oil companies arrived with pledges of roads, schools and clean water. Instead there has been negligible production but lots of environmental damage

More than 15 years have passed since British-based Tullow Oil came to the remote plains of northern Kenya, raising expectations of transformation. Once oil was confirmed, it was...


Gulf States power play scuppers peace bid

A peace conference on Sudan declined to hold the Middle Eastern sponsors of the war to account. Now the conflict is spreading to Chad

If anyone questioned that the Gulf States United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, with their less pecunious partner Egypt, hold a veto on Sudan policy, the conference in...


Cash, platitudes but no peace

About US$750 million in fresh humanitarian aid – €522m ($592m) from the European Union and £120m ($158m) from the United Kingdom – was on the table along with...


Zimbabwe readmission ‘is off’

The UK won’t support Zimbabwe’s readmission to the Commonwealth, we hear, although it could threaten its charm offensive on the continent

Commonwealth Secretary-General Baroness Patricia Scotland’s plan to re-admit Zimbabwe has run into resistance from Britain’s Labour government, diplomatic sources have told Africa Confidential. It was felt that taking...


Austerity hits foreign policy reset

A row over shrinking aid funds will complicate the launch of the promised new Africa strategy

Budgetary cuts, domestic priorities and personnel wrangles have dominated the early months of Britain’s new Labour government – to the detriment of its planned ‘reset’ of foreign policy....


What price an Africa agenda?

If, as expected, Labour secures its first stint in office for 14 years following Britain’s general election on 4 July, one of its foreign policy challenges will be...


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Whitehall's migrant deal with Kigali set to collapse

The Labour Party, currently 12 points ahead in opinion polls, has promised to scrap the Rwanda asylum plan if it wins the general election

The British government's migration deal with Rwanda is now highly likely to collapse without a single asylum-seeker being deported, after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak confirmed that no flights...

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