Vol 47 No 8 | SOMALIAUNITED STATES Foreign funds 14th April 2006 Disquiet is growing over President George Bush's policy in Somalia amid reports of an executive security order to arm a local 'antiterrorist alliance' in contravention of the United...
Vol 47 No 8 | UNITED STATESAFRICA Shutting up shop 14th April 2006 The decision by US-based risk consultants Kroll to shut down their Africa practice on 3 April appears to have been taken, oddly enough, because the US$1.9 billion company...
Vol 46 No 22 | NIGERUNITED STATES Explosive uranium 4th November 2005 Niger is at the centre of a row over intelligence used to justify the United States' invasion of Iraq and the deepening personal battle between President George W....
Vol 46 No 9 | UNITED STATESAFRICA Back to DC 29th April 2005 Washington's newish, enthusiastic Ambassador to South Africa, Jendayi E. Frazer, is heading back to base to take over as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, we hear....
Vol 45 No 25 | UNITED STATESAFRICA Don't sign anything 17th December 2004 The United States wants to ensure that its citizens (and those of its ally, Israel) are not summonsed by the International Criminal Court (ICC), set up under the...
Vol 45 No 21 | SUDANUNITED STATES Specially designated 22nd October 2004 After declaring the Islamic African Relief Agency and five senior officials 'Specially Designated Global Terrorists' on 13 October, the United States may now ask the United Nations Sanctions...
Vol 45 No 19 | NIGERIAUNITED STATES Swelling the great gas balloon 24th September 2004 In camera testimony to a French judge drags more names through the Nigeriagate scandal Halliburton, the United States' oil services company, was the prime mover behind a US$180 million slush fund linked to Nigeria's $10 billion gas export plant, according to several...
Vol 45 No 19 | NIGERIAUNITED STATES The Tesler tapes 24th September 2004 Operating out of a modest solicitor's office in the north London suburb of Tottenham, Jeffrey Tesler cuts an improbable figure as the multi-millionaire agent arbitrating among heads of...
Vol 45 No 17 | UNITED STATES World Banker 27th August 2004 The United States president appoints the World Bank president. James Wolfensohn (AC Vol 45 No 14) finishes his second five-year term at the Bank on 31 May and...
Vol 45 No 14 | SUDANUNITED STATESUNITED NATIONS Smiles and shadows 9th July 2004 With perhaps 1,000 people now dying every day in Darfur, Khartoum is still defying even the mild demands made last week by Colin Powell and Kofi Annan. ...