Vol 44 No 15 | EUROPEAN UNIONAFRICA A can of subsidised worms 25th July 2003 Europe is offering reforms to its restrictive farm policies, but Africans fear footing the bill Reforms to the European Union's controversial Common Agricultural Policy adopted in Luxembourg on 26 June have met a mixed reception in Africa. While subsidising European farmers is unpopular,...
Vol 44 No 15 | EUROPEAN UNIONAFRICA Who loses? 25th July 2003 While some developing countries, such as competitive wheat and beef exporters like Argentina, would like the Common Agricultural Policy reform to be intensified, many African agricultultural exporters are...
Vol 44 No 13 | AFRICAUNITED NATIONS Breaching the peace 27th June 2003 There is growing acrimony over the management of the United Nations peacekeeping operations in Africa. The test case is Congo-Kinshasa where UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's special envoy...
Vol 44 No 11 | UNITED STATESAFRICA Spinning the continent 30th May 2003 Washington's political managers believe their Africa policy can win votes at home and undermine France at the G-8 summit A standing ovation greeted President George W. Bush as he marched into the State Department auditorium on 28 May to sign a new bill providing US$15 billion for...
Vol 44 No 8 | IRAQAFRICA Odious debt 18th April 2003 Forthcoming negotiations on cancelling much of Iraq's US$120-130 billion debt will have repercussions for Africa's most indebted states. Defenders of the status quo on poor country debt will...
Vol 44 No 6 | IRAQAFRICA Catching the flak 21st March 2003 Africa opposes a war in Iraq which will worsen the region's economic and security problems The United States-led war against Iraq is as unpopular in Africa as it is in Europe, the Middle East and the rest of Asia. African governments, none of...
Vol 44 No 6 | IRAQAFRICA The new American way 21st March 2003 Africa's hopes of fairer trade, debt relief and more help to tackle the AIDS pandemic are being thwarted by deepening divisions between rich countries over the Iraq war....
Vol 44 No 6 | IRAQAFRICA Oil empires 21st March 2003 Some US hawks see African oil as a strategic alternative to Gulf oil. The reality is less dramatic Africa will be a net loser from the war in Iraq. Even if the war ends quickly, the effects of higher oil prices and the redirection of trade,...
Vol 44 No 5 | NIGERIAFRANCEAFRICA Jacques is back 7th March 2003 France's triumphal return to Africa is marred only slightly by the tricky problems it faces there It was an impressive turnout. Forty-two heads of state or government braved the icy cold of Paris and its unlovely Porte Maillot conference centre for the biennial...
Vol 44 No 4 | CHINAAFRICA A long march 21st February 2003 China's decision last week to send 220 peacekeeping troops to the beleaguered Mission de l'Organisation des Nations Unies en République Démocratique du Congo (MONUC) has been welcomed at...