Vol 42 No 19 | UNITED STATESAFRICA Where Usama fits in 28th September 2001 Sudan and Saudi Arabia hold the key to the movement blamed for the raid on America The Islamist international movement, which has suddenly drawn half the world into a major confrontation, has roots in Africa. It was founded in its modern, radical, manifestation a...
Vol 42 No 18 | AFRICAVATICAN Milingogate 14th September 2001 Zambian Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo has been at odds with the Vatican since 1982, when he was removed from his archdiocese of Lusaka and given unspecified duties in Rome (AC Vol 41...
Vol 42 No 17 | UNITED KINGDOMAFRICA Birds of a feather 31st August 2001 The leadership struggle in Britain's Conservative Party has an African dimension. After one of right-winger Iain Duncan Smith's backers was expelled last week from the party for al...
Vol 42 No 15 | FRANCEAFRICA Hunting lobby 27th July 2001 A new generation breaks through in Paris but the money no longer flows freely The last relics of colonialism are at last being swept out of Paris. For decades, French-speaking Africa was regarded as the chasse gardée, the private hunting-ground; now t...
Vol 42 No 14 | FRANCEAFRICA Les jeux sont faits 13th July 2001 Francophone dignitaries are gathered in Ottawa, Canada, and its Québecois sister-city, Hull, for the 2001 Jeux de la Francophonie, starting, appropriately enough, on 14 July...
Vol 42 No 12 | UNITED KINGDOMAFRICA The Blair mission 15th June 2001 After a second landslide, Britain's PM promises more time for Africa this term Five days after the Labour Party's landslide victory in the 7 June parliamentary elections, South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki arrived in London and was the first visiting head o...
Vol 42 No 10 | FRANCEAFRICA The new foreign legion 18th May 2001 Paris' African veterans are winning support for new plans to intervene in the continent's wars Africa needs peacekeepers more than ever just now. France has abandoned its post-colonial policies in West Africa, and has launched a new kind of military-backed diplomacy. The res...
Vol 42 No 10 | UNITED STATESAFRICA In the lobbies 18th May 2001 Advice and influence oil the path for African governments with US problems Business is looking up for the Washington lobby firms that want to work for African governments. New contracts worth several million dollars, plus many more in negotiation, followe...
Vol 42 No 10 | UNITED STATESAFRICA Queuing for influence 18th May 2001 Who's lobbying for whom - and what's it worth - in Angola, Cameroon, Congo-Brazzaville, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Liberia, Mozambique, Nigeria, Swaziland a...
Vol 42 No 9 | FRANCEAFRICA Recamping out 4th May 2001 Rwanda and Uganda must pay for their military involvement in Congo-Kinshasa by exclusion from the French-led peacekeeping programme, the Renforcement des Capacités Africaine...