Vol 43 No 23 | UNITED KINGDOMOIL AND GAS Work with sanctions 22nd November 2002 Business people keen to circumvent sanctions' should indeed, as we predicted, flock to a British government sponsored oil conference called 'Working with sanctions'
Vol 43 No 22 | UNITED KINGDOMOIL AND GAS Sanctions no problem 8th November 2002 Business people keen to circumvent sanctions should flock to a British-government sponsored conference in London on 26-27 November. 'Working with Sanctions' promises 'new market op...
Vol 43 No 3 | UNITED KINGDOMAFRICA Designer diplomacy 8th February 2002 At face value the omens could hardly be worse for Prime Minister Tony Blair's West Africa tour from 6-10 February. First stop Nigeria has been blighted by an arms dump explosion ki...
Vol 42 No 23 | UNITED KINGDOMAFRICA Armed and dangerous 23rd November 2001 Arms supplies to countries such as Zimbabwe and Congo-Kinshasa will be more tightly controlled, says Britain's Minister of State for Trade, Nigel Griffiths. UK-based arms dealers b...
Vol 42 No 17 | UNITED KINGDOMAFRICA Birds of a feather 31st August 2001 The leadership struggle in Britain's Conservative Party has an African dimension. After one of right-winger Iain Duncan Smith's backers was expelled last week from the party for al...
Vol 42 No 12 | UNITED KINGDOMAFRICA The Blair mission 15th June 2001 After a second landslide, Britain's PM promises more time for Africa this term Five days after the Labour Party's landslide victory in the 7 June parliamentary elections, South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki arrived in London and was the first visiting head o...
Vol 42 No 7 | UNITED KINGDOMFRANCE Entente partiale 6th April 2001 The latest episode in the convergence of Africa policy between France and Britain - a Whitehall-sponsored conference of officials, academics and journalists from both countries on ...
Vol 42 No 4 | UNITED KINGDOMAFRICA Peace budget 23rd February 2001 Britain's Labour government, whose proclaimed ethical foreign policy has been under fire since the Sandline affair in Sierra Leone (AC Vol 39 No 5), wants to show it takes Africa s...
Vol 41 No 21 | UNITED KINGDOMAFRICA Preferment 27th October 2000 The sacking and subsequent police questioning of Michael Lunt, an Egypt desk officer at Britain's Department of Trade and Industry, raises new concerns about the accountabilty of B...
Vol 41 No 19 | NIGERIAUNITED KINGDOM Kanu help? 29th September 2000 Nwankwo Kanu of Nigeria, the current African Player of the Year who now plys his trade in Britain after spells in Holland and Italy, is telling British newspapers that he is unhapp...