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Vol 64 No 10 |

ETHIOPIA
KENYA
GERMANY

Chancellor Scholz seeks cooperation with Africa on tech and green energy

9th May 2023

Europe's biggest economy is getting more serious about Africa ahead of its hosting of a finance summit with France

During his three-country tour of East Africa on 4 May, Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz became the latest European leader to give its support for a permanent African Union's seat a...

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Vol 64 No 4 |

GERMANY
AFRICA

Berlin tries to broker cash for migrants deals

15th February 2023

Europe's biggest economy and source of development finance mulls payments to deter migration

Germany is set to be the next European Union country to attempt to broker 'cash for migrants' deals, primarily with North African states Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria and Egypt. This e...

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Vol 63 No 11 |

GERMANY
AFRICA

Berlin seeks energy and security accords in Africa

24th May 2022

Russia, gas and regional security dominate German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's trip to Senegal, Niger and South Africa

Ahead of hosting the G7 in Bavaria next month, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is seeking wider support for western opposition to Russia's war on Ukraine on a trip to West and South ...

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Vol 63 No 2 |

NAMIBIA
GERMANY

Kapofi sparks outrage over genocide deal

18th January 2022

The SWAPO government's defence of Berlin's compensation offer for its troops' genocide against the Herero and Nama fuels opposition, raising questions about a new hydrogen deal

Anger about the May 2021 genocide 'reconciliation' with Germany – under which Berlin is due to pay Namibia just €1.1 billion (US$1.3bn) over 30 years for its colonial ma...

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Vol 62 No 11 |

NAMIBIA
RWANDA
GERMANY
FRANCE

Berlin offers $1.3billion to Namibia and Paris asks for forgiveness for involvement in genocides

1st June 2021

A week of performative diplomacy over genocides raises far more questions than it answers

Far from drawing a line under Germany's genocide in Namibia between 1904-1908 and France's involvement in the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, the declarations by Berlin and Paris this ...

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Vol 58 No 11 |

GERMANY
AFRICA

Germany's turn to Africa

26th May 2017

Merkel's government is putting Africa high on its agenda of actions to be taken during its G-20 presidency

Few would have expected Africa to be the focus of Chancellor Angela Merkel's leadership of the Group of Twenty, whose presidency rotates annually. Nevertheless, she will host a 'Hi...

Vol 51 No 8 |

KENYA
GERMANY

German exile

16th April 2010

News that Oku Kaunya, a former deputy Commandant in the Administration Police, has gone into exile in Germany will concentrate the minds of the investigators from the International...

Vol 49 No 14 |

ZIMBABWE
GERMANY

Authoritarian notes

4th July 2008

Until Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel leant on them, Munich-based security printers Giesecke & Devrient GmbH had a lucrative contract to supply paper for Zimbabwe's consider...

Vol 48 No 18 |

ANGOLA
GERMANY

No ode to joy

7th September 2007

Plans for Germany to extend an oil-backed US$1 billion credit facility to President José Eduardo dos Santos' government have hit problems.

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