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...
Vol 41 No 4 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
The De Beers-Anglo American combine was first accused of price-fixing during World War II and President Bill Clinton's anti-trust investigators pounced on the General Electric case...
Vol 41 No 1 |
- ECONOMY
- AFRICA
Now both Britain and United States President Bill Clinton say they want to write off all their loans to the 41 countries eligible for HIPC status - only six of which have qualified so far...
Vol 41 No 1 |
- NORTH AFRICA
US oil companies such as the Exxon-Mobil alliance will put pressure on President Bill Clinton's government to ease its hard line...
Vol 41 No 1 |
- CENTRAL AFRICA
Both President Bill Clinton's envoy to Congo Howard Wolpe and UN envoy Kamel Morjane have tried to persuade Kabila to go to New York but he hasn't yielded on that or his onerous conditions for accepting the deployment of UN observers...
Vol 41 No 1 |
- EAST AFRICA
Yet probably she would have consulted the then Secretary of State Warren Christopher or President Bill Clinton...
President Bill Clinton's government wants to crack down on the private-banking departments of some major US banks through which it is alleged corrupt foreign officials have laundered stolen money...
Vol 40 No 24 |
- UNITED NATIONS
Sierra Leone was not even on the agenda when Obasanjo met President Bill Clinton in Washington last month...
Vol 40 No 21 |
- SENEGAL
- BRITAIN
' Dakar has been hoping to diversify its foreign trade since 1994 when the CFA franc was devalued by 50 per cent; United States'President Bill Clinton visited in 1998 and Britain is happy to play its part...
So United States President Bill Clinton's announcement on 29 September that Washington was prepared to forgive all bilateral debt owed to the USA by HIPC-eligible countries marked another turning point even allowing for Clinton's reduced political credibility and the difficulty of getting the US Congress to agree...