Vol 50 No 24 |
- ALGERIA
- EGYPT
Algeria and Egypt stopped just short of war over qualification for the 2010 football World Cup in South Africa. We hear that President Abdelaziz Bouteflika had considered a...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 1 |
- MOROCCO
- CHINA
China's Ambassador to Morocco
China's chief envoy to Morocco is an experienced
Africa hand, managing the 2006 Forum on China-Africa Cooperation
(FOCAC) held in Beijing. Now Ambassador to Morocco, consistently
placed among China's ten largest...
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Ben Ali wins a crushing victory and another five years in power
President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali saved his allies from a little of the usual embarrassment at his 26 October re-election by polling only 89.62% of the vote,...
Forty years after his El Fatah Revolution, Libyan leader Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi gave his first address to the United Nations General Assembly on 23 September with a meandering, 94-minute speech from which Western leaders made sure they absented themselves. The upset caused by the homecoming celebration for Abdelbaset al Megrahi, convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, showed that Gadaffi's diplomatic rehabilitation was far from complete, despite his regime's abandoning its nuclear weapons programme in 2003 and reopening its oil industry to foreign investors.
Sporting a rust-brown robe and a black cap, Moammar el Gadaffi opened his address to the General Assembly with a greeting to 'our son Obama' on behalf of...
Vol 50 No 19 |
- LIBYA
- BRITAIN
Britain's release of convicted terrorist Abdelbaset al Megrahi has prompted widespread criticism (especially from Washington), but Whitehall officials judged it worth the price of closer security...
Power in Libya is concentrated around Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi's family and a select group of politicians
Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi: the 67-year old Brother Leader of the Revolution is still in complete command. All speculation about his children's influence must be put in the...
More signs are emerging that China is being drawn inexorably
into Africa's internal politics and is being compelled to take
sides in wider geopolitical disputes. This time, the trigger was
the...
Vol 50 No 15 |
- MAURITANIA
General Mohammed Ould Abdel Aziz's victory in the 18 July presidential election confirmed that the former Bataillon de la Sécurité Presidentielle commander turned coup leader will reinvigorate the...
Vol 50 No 12 |
- LIBYA
- BELGIUM
As Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi and his 200-member delegation pitched their tent for a business bonanza in Rome, it emerged that Belgium is to export weapons to...