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HIPC Junction

Depending on donors is no easy task for a government which wants to get re-elected

Ghanaians call it 'going HIPC': signing up to debt relief as prescribed under the World Bank's and International Monetary Fund's Highly Indebted Poor Countries initiative. President John Agyekum...


Chinese puzzle

Breaking a deafening government silence since a controversial Chinese loan agreement was rushed through parliament at the end of its last sitting in April, the embattled Finance and...


419, and counting

Advanced Fee Frauds or '419s', have become as common in Ghana as in Nigeria, where they were invented. Ghanaian banks have published warnings in the press that their...


The net widens

Officials in Abuja are intensifying a probe into commissions of more than US$180 million on a gas export plant following Africa Confidential's report last month that Nigeria's biggest...


Gas leak

International investigations into corruption allegations could prove politically explosive

Allegations that contractors building Nigeria's fast expanding Liquefied Natural Gas complex have paid over US$180 million in illegal commissions have prompted parallel investigations in France, Nigeria and the...


Gasmen

General Ibrahim Babangida, Head of State, August 1985-August 1993. Presided over the formation of the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas joint venture but insisted the state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum...


Gas timetable

17 May 1989: Incorporation of Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Limited. NLNG Board with representatives from the state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Shell Gas BV, ENI International (formerly...


At a crossroads

An awkward defendant helps to uncover a secret commissions system

The investigations into Nigeria's Liquefied Natural Gas project span three continents and are a major test of international resolve to combat corruption. In France, it is the biggest...


Shell-shocked

Shell is both a victim and a prime cause of the social calamity in the Niger Delta

Last year, the Shell Petroleum Development Company, Nigeria, employed consultants to clarify a 'peace and security strategy' for their troubled operations in the Niger Delta oilfields, where Shell...


Too much sopi

Though President Wade is criticised for his frequent changes, Senegal is seen as a bastion of stability

After waiting all his life to be president, Abdoulaye Wade is making up for lost time (AC Vol 43 No 9). Since his triumphant defeat of Abdou Diouf...


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