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  • 23rd November 2010

Confidential Agenda (Week ending 28 November)

Patrick Smith

Nigeria: Ex-Vice-President Abubakar is northern contender for ruling party presidential nominationIt will be a straight north versus south contest for the ruling party's presidential nomination in next year's elections in Nigeria. This follows the emergen...

  • 15th November 2010

Confidential Agenda (Week ending 21 November)

Patrick Smith

AFRICA: Concerns on trade after the spats in SeoulWorries about trade restrictions and protectionism peppers assessments from African diplomats of the G-20 summit in Seoul. Although Africa was sitting on the sidelines for most of the debate over currency ...

  • 12th November 2010

G-20, dusted and done

Charles Moré

p { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; }a:link { } It was an omen too trite to be invented. Thursday evening, as the remaining contingent of G-20 leaders descended on Seoul for the 11-12 November summit, they brought with them a dust cloud that moved in on west win...

  • 11th November 2010

CONFIDENTIAL AGENDA (Week ending 14 November)

Stars Foundation

Côte d'Ivoire/Tanzania/Guinea: one election win and two close contestsTwo of the election cliffhangers continue this week in Côte d'Ivoire, where the second round of the presidential elections is due to be held on 21 November, and in Guinea where results ...

  • 10th November 2010

From Our Man in Seoul

Charles Moré

Security is tight but low-key around the COEX convention centre in Seoul, South Korea, where the G20 conference is being held Thursday and Friday, 11-12 November. Bingu wa Mutharika was the first world leader to arrive at the summit; the Malawian presiden...

  • 3rd November 2010

CONFIDENTIAL AGENDA – (Week ending 7 November)

Patrick Smith

Cote d'Ivoire and Tanzania: The long, long wait for resultsThe latest round of elections in Africa is putting pressure on governments and civil servants to improve election organisation to address growing criticism from electorates. Two of the mooted pol...

  • 27th October 2010

CONFIDENTIAL AGENDA (Week ending 31 October)

Patrick Smith

Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire and Tanzania: Africa's 'Super Sunday' of electionsThe announcement late on 26 October that the second round of Guinea's presidential elections will be held on 31 October means that three national elections will be held in Africa on t...

  • 19th October 2010

THE CONFIDENTIAL AGENDA

Patrick Smith

Africa Confidential looks at the week aheadAfrica gets dragged into the global money battlesStrong multilateral action on the worsening international currency crisis will top the list of demands from the African caucus at next month's meeting of the Grou...

  • 27th September 2010

President Mills's Asian sojourn and diplomatic choice

Patrick Smith

New York, 21 September Dear Confidentialers,The decision of Ghana's President John Evans Atta Mills to tour China and Japan instead of attending this week's development summit at the United Nations headquarters in New York points to some of the economic r...

  • 17th August 2010

Suddenly, Nigeria's election bursts into life

Patrick Smith

AbujaDear Confidentialers,After months of musings and murmurings, Nigeria's elections and the politics around them are taking shape. Giant posters extolling the virtues of candidates – declared and undeclared – are cropping up across the country. Nigeria'...

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