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Vol 62 No 14 |
- AFRICA
- BRITAIN
Pressing Boris Johnson's government into holding a vote is one thing but defeating it would require the biggest Conservative party rebellion since the December 2019 general election...
Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government is proposing to link increases in aid spending to two conditions: a fall in public debt and UK public accounts being in surplus for a sustained period...
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Vol 62 No 11 |
- AFRICA
- BRITAIN
- G7
When the heads of state and government of the Group of 7 biggest economies meet in Cornwall on 11-13 June their host Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he wants to focus the summit on global trade strengthening the international system against pandemics and tackling climate change (AC Vol 62 No 2 A scramble for vaccines)...
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What Britain and Kenya were able to agree on was a candidate for the prosecutor's job who had won the trust of both Britain's prime minister Boris Johnson and Kenyatta...
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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 European Union's single market on 31 December – would have been the ideal place for Prime Minister Boris Johnson to wax lyrical about the 'sunlit uplands' of new trade and investment partnerships that the newly 'liberated' UK would enjoy...
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French President Macron and United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson were among the first to pledge to offer surplus vaccine supplies at the end of last week with Johnson also urging G7 leaders to support a treaty on pandemic preparedness through the World Health Organization at a virtual summit on Friday (19 February)...
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Duddridge got his old job back in Boris Johnson's government in February 2020...
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A year ago at its inaugural Africa Investment conference the United Kingdom's prime minister Boris Johnson hosted 16 African heads of state resulting in commercial deals across the continent worth £15 billion (US$20...
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The signs are however that Boris Johnson's government is not that ambitious...
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Vol 61 No 16 |
- AFRICA
- COVID-19
Already the spectre of vaccine nationalism is raising its head with both United States President Donald Trump and United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson hailing their advance purchases of millions more vaccine vials than they have people (AC Vol 61 No 8 The war for the cure)...
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 prompted equal measures of dismay from the development policy community and pleasure from most of his Conservative Party...
Choice: Lungu or Zelensky The Department for International Development has had plenty of time to prepare psychologically for the merger with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) a senior DFID staffer told Africa Confidential but Prime Minister Boris Johnson's statement still took them by surprise...
