Vol 51 No 20 | SOUTH AFRICAEUROPEAN UNION Buttering up Zuma 8th October 2010 In trying to sort out its relations with Africa, Brussels takes care to befriend its main trading partner on the continent South Africa is the European Union's leading trade partner in Africa and the 27 EU countries form its most important trading bloc. Both parties are well aware of the changing balan...
Vol 51 No 3 | SOMALIAUGANDAEUROPEAN UNION Training the trainers 5th February 2010 Uganda and the European Union are combining to train security forces for Somalia’s shaky Transitional Federal Government.
Vol 50 No 24 | EUROPEAN UNIONAFRICA The East takes on the South 4th December 2009 The new team of Eurocrats has little experience of Africa and may be surprised by what it finds A new European Commission was named on 17 November and most of its members who will deal with African affairs are from countries with no ties to the continent. The Commission Presi...
Vol 50 No 24 | EUROPEAN UNIONAFRICA Mr Chambas goes to Brussels 4th December 2009 After Mohammed ibn Chambas takes over as Secretary General of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group in Brussels on 1 March 2010, he will have to fight hard to reassert the coher...
Vol 50 No 12 | EUROPEAN UNIONACP Banana skin 12th June 2009 A row is growing between the African-Caribbean-Pacific countries and the European Union. On 29 May, ACP trade ministers accused the EU of sacrificing development to commerce. They ...
Vol 50 No 3 | EUROPEAN UNIONACP Ghana's chance 6th February 2009 Ghana's Ambassador in Brussels, Nana Berna Kumi, is leading in an increasingly hard fought battle there for the post of Secretary General of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Gro...
Vol 49 No 7 | SUDANEUROPEAN UNION Hotel Hellacious 28th March 2008 A public relations jamboree in Khartoum on 10-13 March tried to persuade European politicians and businesses that they are missing out on billions of petrodollars because of Wester...
Vol 49 No 4 | CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLICCHADEUROPEAN UNION Delays in deployment 15th February 2008 As fighting in Chad worsens, Lieutenant General Nash promises all EUFOR troops will be on the ground by mid-May The European Force in Chad and Central African Republic (EUFOR Chad/CAR) is due to be deployed between March and May, to protect refugees from Sudan's Darfur region and internally ...
Vol 49 No 2 | BELGIUMEUROPEAN UNION Father and son 16th January 2008 Congolese know about dynasties. Incumbent President Joseph Kabila is the son of his assassinated predecessor, Laurent Désirée Kabila, and the political scene in Kinshasa is peppere...
Vol 48 No 22 | ZIMBABWEEUROPEAN UNION Brown's boycott 2nd November 2007 British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s refusal to attend the European Union summit in Lisbon, Portugal, on 8-9 December alongside Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe play...
