DISPATCHES Vol 62 No 11 | NAMIBIARWANDAGERMANYFRANCE 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 ... READ FOR FREE
Vol 58 No 11 | GERMANYAFRICA 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 | KENYAGERMANY 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 | ZIMBABWEGERMANY 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 | ANGOLAGERMANY 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.
