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Queen Elizabeth II

Date of Birth: 21 April 1926
Place of Birth: Mayfair, London, United Kingdom
Died: 8 September 2022


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Cyril in Empireland

King Charles wants to shore up the 54-nation Commonwealth after the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth II whose long reign and charisma kept together the voluntary association of former British and a few other ex-European colonies...


Whitehall talks up its business aims

Linking the cuts to the death of Queen Elizabeth II and developments in the Commonwealth Stewart warned that Britain 'will lose its position in Africa very rapidly'...


Ruto plays the economy blame-game

Four days after his victory lap and inauguration on 12 September President William Samoei Ruto flew to London for Queen Elizabeth II's state funeral and on to New York for the UN General Assembly...

CABINET ON HOLD AS RUTO TAKES TOUR President William Ruto had been expected to reveal his senior government team this week but his attendance at the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II followed by his first trip as president to the UN General Assembly in New York have put those plans on hold...


A storm in a port

The scheme agreed by ex-President Ernest Bai Koroma in November 2017 aims to expand Freetown's Queen Elizabeth II Quay with construction and finance from China under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)...

Further complicating the matter the French logistics company Bolloré already enjoys exclusive rights to manage the Queen Elizabeth II Quay including 'performing operations…for any vessels carrying more than five containers and roll out-on roll-off vessels entering or leaving the port ' according to a concession agreement it has with the government...

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Omens and portents

She turned down other investment engagements and an invitation to speak at Chatham House itself but attended a private function at Buckingham Palace home to Queen Elizabeth II...

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Zuma's many foes mobilise

In London think tanks convened to consider where South Africa was headed as the British High Commissioner Dame Judith Macgregor arrived to receive her New Year's Honour from Queen Elizabeth II...


Hassan Sheikh at the wheel

At the media conference Cameron took only one question each from the BBC and Sky News: the first on the UK Independence Party’s showing in the British local elections and the second on Queen Elizabeth II not visiting Sri Lanka for November’s Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting...


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