Africa

Stephen Lewis: United Nations' Special Envoy, HIV-AIDS in Africa, 2001-06; Deputy Director, UN Children's Fund, 1995-1999; Canada's Permanent Representative, UN, 1984-98; was Coordinator, Graça Machel study on children...

President Nicolas Sarkozy is billed as France's first post-colonial head of state but his first state visit to Africa did not presage a rupture with the Françafrique system....

Africa produces far less than the Middle East: around 2.6 million barrels a day from Nigeria and close to 2 mn. b/d from Angola by the end of...

British engagement in Africa and aid levels will continue to rise under Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who took over from Tony Blair on 27 June, government sources told...

New Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner has won his battle to keep development policy in his Ministry, rather than in the new Immigration Ministry under the right-wing Brice Hortefeux,...

For the last decade, Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labour government has presided over the modernisation of British Africa policy, from one suited to the era of the Cold...

Little is known about new Prime Minister Gordon Brown's intentions on foreign policy or his choice of lieutenants, even though he has been the economic supremo in the...

The revelation by African Development Bank President Donald Kaberuka that the China Exim Bank, the country's official export credit agency, has agreed to finance projects worth some US$20...

Ostensibly, Western finance officials welcomed Asia's developing ties with Africa at the African Development Bank meeting in Shanghai. Norway's Secretary of State for International Development, Anne F. Stenhammer,...

African governments are preparing for a tougher relationship with Paris on trade and immigration policy following the victory of Nicolas Sarkozy in presidential elections on 6 May. Perhaps...