Vol 54 No 4 | EUROPEAN UNION The new poor give less 15th February 2013 As EU members cut public spending, funds to Africa shrink and promised aid percentages are under pressure The European Union’s austerity measures are taking an increasing toll on concessional development finance and grants to African and other developing countries. At their summit on 8...
Vol 53 No 6 | SOUTH AFRICAEUROPEAN UNION Euro-Right backs Boers 16th March 2012 Afrikaners complaining of a ‘Boer genocide’ are joining forces with far-right members of the European Parliament to protest the murder of white farmers in South Africa. In 2010, th...
Vol 52 No 5 | CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLICNIGEREUROPEAN UNION The EU pays but keeps silent 4th March 2011 Opposition candidates declared the first round of the presidential election on 23 January tainted (‘vicié’), putting President François Bozizé’s 64.7% share of the vote in doub...
Vol 52 No 4 | EUROPEAN UNIONAFRICA Cooking up those raw materials 18th February 2011 European companies want cheaper raw materials and propose ways of getting them from Africa European policy-makers are anxious to safeguard the supply of raw materials to their industries and the European Union has just presented guidelines for a ‘raw materials diplomacy’...
Vol 51 No 23 | EUROPEAN UNIONAFRICA Approaching the summit 19th November 2010 The first big question for the European Union-Africa summit in Tripoli on 29-30 November is who will be there. By convention, the Libyan hosts choose their guests. The EU had hoped...
Vol 51 No 22 | EUROPEAN UNIONACP Trade talk troubles 5th November 2010 The EU’s obstinacy over trade concessions to Africa is encouraging frustrated governments to turn increasingly to Asia The partners are not equal in the negotiations for Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) on ‘free trade’ between the European Union and the 79 African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP)...
Vol 51 No 22 | EUROPEAN UNIONACP Pushing Europe towards African farms 5th November 2010 Strong criticism has been levelled at European Union and Western companies for failing to match the pace of Asian investment in African agriculture. A new report published in Londo...
Vol 51 No 22 | EUROPEAN UNIONACP Complex architecture but no deal 5th November 2010 Africa is larger, politically more varied and much poorer than the island states that constitute its colleagues in the African-Caribbean-Pacific (ACP) group. Like them, its relatio...
Vol 51 No 20 | SOUTH AFRICAEUROPEAN UNION Buttering up Zuma 8th October 2010 In trying to sort out its relations with Africa, Brussels takes care to befriend its main trading partner on the continent South Africa is the European Union's leading trade partner in Africa and the 27 EU countries form its most important trading bloc. Both parties are well aware of the changing balan...
Vol 51 No 3 | SOMALIAUGANDAEUROPEAN UNION Training the trainers 5th February 2010 Uganda and the European Union are combining to train security forces for Somalia’s shaky Transitional Federal Government.