Vol 2 (AAC) No 10 |
- SENEGAL
A secret deal involving the sale of public land is financing
an ugly statue and tourist centre, built under contract by a North
Korean company
The latest grand projet from President Abdoulaye
Wade - the US$30 million Monument de la Renaissance Africaine
- has quickly become an extreme parody of bad government in the
eyes of...
In mid-August, Nigeria's Federal High Court overturned President
Umaru Yar'Adua's revoking, in January, of Seoul-based Korea
National Oil Company's rights to 60% of Oil Prospecting Licences
321 and 323 in a...
A militant leader lies dead after his sect fought the faltering government
Within days of a truce being declared between militants in the Niger Delta and the government, serious fighting broke out in Nigeria's poverty-ridden north (AC Vol 50 No...
The late Ustaz Mohammed Yusuf's Boko Haram group had about 2,000 members, some of whom had first attacked police stations in 2003. The group's rhetoric grew increasingly violent,...
A tangled web of financial holdings stretching from South Africa
to Ghana and Lebanon could delay plans for a US$20
billion merger of India's Bharti Airtel and South Africa's Mobile
Telephone...
Malaysian timber conglomerate Samling, which faces accusations
of illegal logging, is at the centre of a storm over the bidding
by foreign companies for 25-year contracts in Liberia's timber
sector. The...
The N50 bn. amnesty deal offers a respite but will not change the corruption and environmental despoliation that fire the conflict in the Niger Delta
The Niger Delta militants take an unorthodox approach to public relations. In the morning of 12 July they launched 'Operation Moses', detonating a bomb which devastated part of...
Few outsiders are prepared to support the doughty opponents of Yahya Jammeh's corrupt and brutal regime
Since Lieutenant Yahya Jammeh led a succesful coup just 15 years ago on 22 July 1994, he has managed his small country against strong domestic complaints, but without...
Ex-President Charles Taylor's trial at the Special Court for Sierra Leone on 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity will reverberate across Africa, especially those countries such as Congo-Kinshasa, Uganda and Sudan, whose politicians and rebel leaders face indictment by the International Criminal Court for war crimes. The relaying of television images showing Charles Taylor in the dock answering charges of crimes against humanity is concentrating minds, notably that of the African Union Chairman, Libya's Moammar el Gadaffi who trained and armed Taylor's soldiers.
At last, Charles Taylor gets his day in court. He took the stand before the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) for the first time on 14 July...
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf looks set to seek a second six-year term in the 2011 elections. This is despite a recommendation from Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)...