Vol 3 (AAC) No 2 | NIGERIASOUTH KOREA A useful deal in the Delta 15th December 2009 South Korea's state-run Land and Housing Corporation is offering investments and technical cooperation in the oil-rich Niger Delta, a move that might help the ambitions of Seoul's energy companies and appeal...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 2 | SOUTH KOREA Song Sang-hyun 15th December 2009 President, International Criminal Court As eyes turn to Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo's handling of cases against Sudanese President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir, Congolese warlord Jean-Pierre Bemba and the authors of Kenya's 2007 post-election violence, a South...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 1 | SOUTH KOREA Seoul brothers 26th November 2009 On 23-25 November, Seoul continued with the summitry programme it started in 2006, which gives African countries and their resources a privileged place in its hierarchy of foreign...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 12 | TANZANIASOUTH KOREA The next great land sale 19th October 2009 Seoul is trying to buy into Tanzania's farm sector shortly after Daewoo precipitated a political confrontation over the same issue in Madagascar South Korea is desperately trying to manage the political fallout as it negotiates the acquisition of 100,000 hectares of farmland with the Tanzanian government. It is trying to avoid a...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 11 | CONGO-KINSHASASOUTH KOREABRIEFING The great South Korean commercial offensive 22nd September 2009 The latest result of the close ties between Kinshasa and Seoul was revealed on 8 September by Générose Lushiku, Congo-Kinshasa's Minister of Urbanism and Habitat, who announced that...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 10 | NIGERIASOUTH KOREABRIEFING KNOC, KNOC, who is there? 27th August 2009 In mid-August, Nigeria's Federal High Court overturned President Umaru Yar'Adua's revoking, in January, of Seoul-based Korea National Oil Company's rights to 60% of Oil Prospecting Licences 321 and 323 in a...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 6 | NIGERIACHINAINDIASOUTH KOREA From win-win to lose-lose 16th April 2009 Asia's barter deals for Nigerian oil were politically charged and have been economically disastrous Almost all Nigeria's countertrade deals with Asia have been abandoned after investigations by President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's officials into their viability.
Vol 2 (AAC) No 6 | NIGERIACHINAINDIASOUTH KOREA Abuja's Asian connections 16th April 2009 South Korea: Nigeria is South Korea's third largest trading partner and the largest market in Africa for Korean construction companies. In January 2006, Korean companies were working on 60 projects valued...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 5 | MADAGASCARINDIASOUTH KOREA A target of the revolution 27th March 2009 After the Madagascar imbroglio, South Korean and Indian companies are trying new tactics Almost as soon as he seized power on 18 March, putchiste President Andry Rajoelina cancelled a proposed contract to lease over a million hectares of land to South Korea's Daewoo...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 5 | SOUTH KOREAAFRICA Seoul's safety in numbers 27th March 2009 On top of the Madagascar saga, South Korea's loss of oil acreage in Nigeria in February is the biggest of several setbacks for Korean companies in Africa in recent months (AAC...