Vol 42 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
Though a continent widely seen as the world's most marginalised Africa can still draw the attention of world leaders such as the United States' outgoing President Bill Clinton and Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair...
That was the position that President Bill Clinton inherited (and tried to change) in 1992 from George W...
This year Congress voted US$300 million for President Bill Clinton's anti-AIDS programme in Africa which contrasted sharply with its reluctance to endorse finance for the UN...
Now though Eximbank is the main Western insurer of loans to Nigeria - the change coincided with President Bill Clinton's visit there in August under pressure from US oil companies to win business in Nigeria's fast expanding oil and gas sector...
President Bill Clinton is a personal enthusiast of debt relief but approval for US contribution to the Trust Fund is currently held up in Congress...
On one hand he was strong-armed into the 28 August signing by mediator-in-chief Nelson Mandela whose diplomatic pulling power had brought 20 heads of state including United States President Bill Clinton to Arusha to the ceremony...
' So declared US President Bill Clinton on 18 May before signing the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA)...
Vol 41 No 10 |
- UNITED STATES
None of the African governments most favoured by President Bill Clinton's government - South Africa Nigeria Uganda and Rwanda - has Washington lobbyists on retainers...
Near the top of the list for President Bill Clinton's trip to Nigeria in June are the Abuja government's plans for a huge expansion of the oil industry which could make the country the world's second biggest oil exporter after Saudi Arabia in ten year's time...
The mediators now are Ahmed Ouyahia representing the OAU Chairperson Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika plus Anthony Lake Special Envoy of United States President Bill Clinton...
The National Summit on Africa in Washington on 16-20 February attracted several star speakers such as United States President Bill Clinton and Organisation of African Unity Secretary General Salim Ahmed Salim and some 2 300 delegates...