Vol 46 No 16 | GUINEA BISSAU On edge 5th August 2005 Recounts in three regions are possible after losing candidate Malam Bacai Sanhá disputed provisional election results giving former military ruler João Bernardo 'Nino' Vieira victory in the 24...
Vol 46 No 15 | NIGERIA The net widens 22nd July 2005 Having uncovered illegal commissions of $170 million on the gas export plant, investigators have uncovered many more payment routes Investigators searching for hundreds of millions of dollars of corrupt payments linked to Nigeria's gas export plant have uncovered new channels for the payments through Kenya's Transnational Bank...
Vol 46 No 15 | NIGERIA Notes on a scandal 22nd July 2005 Wojciech Chodan, an executive with Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Root (KBR), has emerged as the Samuel Pepys of the Nigeria gas scandal. At many key meetings, Chodan...
Vol 46 No 15 | SENEGAL Sopi and Seck 22nd July 2005 Wade's winning slogan was 'Sopi' (change); now he faces the same demand from his old rival Accusations that former Prime Minister Idrissa Seck is 'threatening state security' are heating up politics in the lead up to next May's parliamentary elections. Seen as a potential...
Vol 46 No 14 | NIGERIA Talking it over 8th July 2005 Against expectation, the national conference is becoming a force for change Basking in the glory of securing a two-thirds cut in Nigeria's US$34 billion foreign debt and the more ambiguous achievement of being British Prime Minister Tony Blair's new...
Vol 46 No 14 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Peace postponed 8th July 2005 As the disarmament and election timetables slip, the country is crumbling Another crisis, another timetable for peace. Disarmament must now get underway by the end of this month. The mediators are reluctant to admit that elections cannot be held...
Vol 46 No 13 | SIERRA LEONE A matter of graft 24th June 2005 The World Bank has postponed indefinitely a donors' meeting on Sierra Leone, which had initially been scheduled for 6 June, as concern grows about high-level corruption in President...
Vol 46 No 13 | GUINEA BISSAU Yala the spoiler 24th June 2005 In the second round of the presidential elections due on 17 or 24 July, Malam Bacai Sanha of the ruling Partido Africano da Independência de Guiné e Cabo...
Vol 46 No 12 | GHANA Hotel Hullaballoo 10th June 2005 A lady, a hotel, a president and an old-fashioned political scandal Gizelle Yazji, a Florida-based Iraqi financial consultant, claims that she negotiated the purchase of a US$3.5 million hotel in Accra's upmarket Airport district on behalf of President John...
Vol 46 No 12 | NIGERIASÃO TOMÉ & PRÍNCIPE Blood over oil 10th June 2005 Political mayhem follows the latest oil block awards in the Joint Development Zone Ministerial resignations and dismissals in São Tomé and indignant denials of corruption in Nigeria follow the 31 May award of five blocks in the two countries' Joint Development...