Vol 62 No 5 | GHANAKENYAUNITED KINGDOMEAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY In on the act 4th March 2021 Kenya's trade agreement with the United Kingdom finalised in November was sold as a diplomatic triumph in Nairobi but met with consternation in East Africa's other capitals. The Ea...
Vol 62 No 4 | UNITED KINGDOMAFRICA Far from obvious 18th February 2021 A year after promising to be Africa's 'partner of choice', the UK is offering little beyond more of the same In ordinary times, January's UK-Africa investment summit – the second such event ever and the first international investment event Britain has hosted since leaving the Europe...
Vol 62 No 3 | UGANDAUNITED KINGDOM African concerns 4th February 2021 Britain's Minister for Africa, James Duddridge MP, has come in for criticism from the Labour opposition in Parliament for not expressing more concern about the conduct of the Ugand...
Vol 61 No 13 | UNITED KINGDOMAFRICA Retreating from the stage 25th June 2020 Merging the Department for International Development with the Foreign Office is more about opinion polls than policy substance Prime Minister Boris Johnson's announcement that the Department for International Development (DFID) will be subsumed into the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in September pr...
Vol 60 No 9 | UNITED KINGDOMAFRICA Move over darling 3rd May 2019 The UK's Conservative government is taking a leaf out of France's book by promoting the English language in sub-Saharan Africa, including those countries normally considered exclus...
Vol 58 No 20 | NIGERIAUNITED KINGDOM Game of mansions 22nd September 2017 The fondness of the Nigerian oil elite for palatial homes in London’s exclusive St. John's Wood emerges from our latest investigation Igho Sanomi, the Nigerian oil trader who became a billionaire from contracts obtained while Diezani Allison-Madueke was oil minister, bought a £28.5 million (US$39 mn.) British Vir...
Vol 58 No 16 | NIGERIAUNITED KINGDOM Trading places and faces 4th August 2017 A web of commodity, oil and property companies face growing scrutiny as Nigerian and British investigators collaborate As Britain's long-running investigations into Nigerian former Oil Minister Diezani Allison-Madueke move towards a finale in October, they have now snagged a clutch of ambitious Nig...
Vol 58 No 13 | UNITED KINGDOMAFRICA UK vote stalls trade talks 23rd June 2017 The British government's failure to get a mandate for a 'hard Brexit' leaves its plans for increased African trade on the back burner The United Kingdom's shock election result on 8 June, which deprived Prime Minister Theresa May of her governing majority, is likely to alter radically her Conservative government'...
Vol 58 No 9 | UNITED KINGDOMAFRICA Less Blair for Africa 28th April 2017 Never known for keeping a low profile, British former Prime Minister Tony Blair has been in the news again with the launch of his Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI). The ...
Vol 58 No 8 | UNITED KINGDOMAFRICA Desperation and inspiration 14th April 2017 With the United Kingdom's divorce from the European Union now under way, government and business have launched a charm offensive in a bid to strengthen trade partnerships with othe...