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Dirty deals

A Belgian arms trader, Jacques-Germain Monsieur, is the new star in the French judicial inquiry into France's former state oil company, Elf Aquitaine (now privatised and part of...


Peace budget

Britain's Labour government, whose proclaimed ethical foreign policy has been under fire since the Sandline affair in Sierra Leone (AC Vol 39 No 5), wants to show it...


Winners and losers in Angolagate

Politicians, soldiers and corporations are reeling in Luanda and Paris but some wily operators are capitalising on the scandal

The political cost of the arms-for-oil scandal is growing fast in Luanda and Paris. It reaches right across the power elite in two countries. In Angola, it has...


How high the summit

The English-speakers stayed away and the meeting was cosy but bland

President Jacques Chirac is growing ambivalent about Africa. A critical observer of Franco-African affairs, the Chairman of the non-governmental organisation Survie, François-Xavier Verschave, has called the Angolagate affair...


Not franc

The assassination of Congo-Kinshasa's President Laurent-Désiré Kabila played havoc with the running order at Cameroon's Franco-African summit, the 21st since 1973. Underlying the scheduled theme, 'L'Afrique - l'heure...


How high the moon?

The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity, better known as the Unification Church and even better known as 'the Moonies', continues to court African leaders....


Africa - where's that?

Expect a more commercial and less sentimental foreign policy under George W. Bush

The bizarre twists in the saga of the United States' presidential election have kept millions of Africans entertained, especially those at the receiving end of Western lectures about...


Presidential pranks

France is rocked by scandals involving some former key Africa policy-makers. Ex-Minister of Cooperation for Development, Michel Roussin, was let out after five nights in gaol on 6...


Preferment

The sacking and subsequent police questioning of Michael Lunt, an Egypt desk officer at Britain's Department of Trade and Industry, raises new concerns about the accountabilty of British...


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