Vol 64 No 2 | NIGERIABRITAIN Obi rules at Chatham House 19th January 2023 Of Nigeria's presidential candidates so far to set out their stall at London's Chatham House think tank, the Labour Party's Peter Obi easily won on points on 16 January. The other ...
DISPATCHES Vol 63 No 22 | AFRICABRITAIN Ukraine costs hit Whitehall aid budget 1st November 2022 Former Aid Minister Andrew Mitchell to head the Development and Africa departments in London The revelations that £4 billion (US$4.6bn) of Britain's £11bn development budget this year is likely to be spent within the country to house Ukrainian refugees, undersc... READ FOR FREE
Vol 63 No 21 | SOUTH AFRICABRITAIN Truss and Ramaphosa try a crisis reset 7th October 2022 Dogged by chaos and infighting at home, politicians in Whitehall and Pretoria could both gain from the state visit to London in November The British and South African governments are both struggling to resolve serial political and economic crises. Against this backdrop, planning a state visit for President Cyril Ram...
Vol 63 No 20 | AFRICABRITAIN Whitehall talks up its business aims 6th October 2022 Liz Truss's government says its strategy will mean more trade and investment in Africa, but critics say there are fewer resources for the region When she was Foreign Secretary a few months ago, Britain's new Prime Minister Liz Truss said her development strategy would pare back aid and promote business as a means to influen...
Vol 63 No 19 | AFRICABRITAIN Calls for a reset get louder with the death of the Queen 12th September 2022 Nearly simultaneous change at both Buckingham Palace and Downing Street offers a chance for a policy rethink on Africa With the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, an umbilical link with the generation of independence leaders has been broken. She knew them all, and almost every Commonwealth African lead...
Vol 63 No 18 | AFRICABRITAIN What will Truss mean for Africa? 4th August 2022 Although she heads the most diverse cabinet in Britain's history, new prime minister Liz Truss has shown little interest in engaging with African states When it emerged on 5 September that Britain's new Prime Minister Liz Truss was likely to appoint politicians of African descent to four of the most senior positions in her cabinet ... READ FOR FREE
Vol 63 No 18 | SOUTH AFRICABRITAIN Win for Hain's Bain campaign 31st August 2022 The Guptas and their allies enlisted big-name multinational firms in state capture and some are losing global business over their role Britain's three-year ban on public sector contracts with Bain & Co, the world's biggest management consultancy, for its 'grave professional misconduct' in South Africa may be p...
DISPATCHES Vol 63 No 14 | COMMONWEALTHBRITAIN Scotland wins leadership battle despite Whitehall opposition 30th June 2022 Battle for control of the organisation raises questions about its future and relevance in changing geopolitics Baroness Patricia Scotland won re-election as the Secretary General of the Commonwealth in a tight contest and bad-tempered finale to its summit in Kigali between 20 and 26 June, t... READ FOR FREE
Vol 63 No 14 | CONGO-KINSHASABRITAIN ENRC tests Serious Fraud Office 7th July 2022 A slew of court cases by Kazakh-owned Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation, aimed at stymying a bribery investigation, may be running out of steam. Now the critical question is w...
Vol 63 No 13 | AFRICABRITAIN Gaps in Glencore's guilty plea 23rd June 2022 By pleading guilty in Britain and the United States to grand corruption and paying out some US$1.5 billion in penalties, commodity giant Glencore has been trying to draw a line und...
