The story goes that as President Hosni Mubarak was receiving Premier Atef Ebeid's resignation he asked who he'd recommend for the job...
Agenda for accountability High expectations have been met by small gains while NePAD's secretariat in Midrand South Africa struggles to match the disparate demands of founding Presidents Thabo Mbeki Olusegun Obansanjo Abdoulaye Wade Abdelaziz Bouteflika and Hosni Mubarak...
Vol 45 No 1 |
- NORTH AFRICA
President Hosni Mubarak is ailing and senior security officials want to restrain his 42-year-old son Gamal an international banker-turned-number two in the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP)...
Egypt leads the charge including through the Arab League headed by ex-Foreign Minister Amr Moussa a confidant of President Hosni Mubarak...
Cairo shouts about defending the unity of an 'Arab country' and the Nile Waters thereby defending the same NIF which tried to murder President Hosni Mubarak...
Heavyweights such as Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher and a predecessor of his Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa (close to President Hosni Mubarak) have waded in as if Egypt's sovereignty were at stake triggering historical echoes which have upset northern and southern Sudanese alike...
So having surprisingly telephoned Israeli Premier Ariel Sharon to congratulate him on his 29 January election win President Hosni Mubarak on 16 February summoned an emergency day-long meeting of the League of Arab States...
Vol 44 No 1 |
- NORTH AFRICA
Failure to undertake economic reform has lost President Hosni Mubarak the respect of many in the business community who once valued his management if not his authoritarianism...
Gadaffi scored easy populist points by threatening to leave the League of Arab States over Palestine policy in a much publicised late October spat that had League Secretary General Amr Moussa Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika shuttling to Tripoli...
President Hosni Mubarak (73) is in his fourth six-year presidential term and keen to hold on...