Vol 45 No 19 | NIGERIAUNITED STATES The Tesler tapes 24th September 2004 Operating out of a modest solicitor's office in the north London suburb of Tottenham, Jeffrey Tesler cuts an improbable figure as the multi-millionaire agent arbitrating among head...
Vol 45 No 17 | UNITED STATES World Banker 27th August 2004 The United States president appoints the World Bank president. James Wolfensohn (AC Vol 45 No 14) finishes his second five-year term at the Bank on 31 May and has carefully not sai...
Vol 45 No 14 | SUDANUNITED STATESUNITED NATIONS Smiles and shadows 9th July 2004 With perhaps 1,000 people now dying every day in Darfur, Khartoum is still defying even the mild demands made last week by Colin Powell and Kofi Annan. The United States Secretary...
Vol 45 No 5 | NIGERIAUNITED STATES Blowback 5th March 2004 Investigations in France, Nigeria and the United States into claims that the US company Halliburton was party to a US$180 million slush fund to bribe Nigerian officials are growing...
Vol 45 No 4 | ALGERIAUNITED STATES Desert shadows 20th February 2004 Reports of an ambush at the end of January somewhere between 'north of Tamanrasset' in southern Algeria and northern Mali point to the complex and lethal war games under way across...
Vol 44 No 19 | UNITED STATESAFRICA Walter's woes II 26th September 2003 US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Walter Kansteiner III is leaving his post in November, we hear, to spend more time with his young family (AC Vol 43 No 22). His ...
Vol 44 No 14 | MALAWIUNITED STATES Kidnapped I 11th July 2003 Churches, the governing United Democratic Front, the United States' Save the Children Fund and the Muslim Association of Malawi were early casualties of Malawi's 'war on terrorism'...
Vol 44 No 14 | BOTSWANAUNITED STATES Kidnapped II 11th July 2003 Just in time for President George W. Bush's visit to Gaberone on 10 July, a row has blow up over allegations that five suspected supporters of Al Qaida were kidnapped in Malawi by ...
Vol 44 No 11 | UNITED STATESAFRICA Spinning the continent 30th May 2003 Washington's political managers believe their Africa policy can win votes at home and undermine France at the G-8 summit A standing ovation greeted President George W. Bush as he marched into the State Department auditorium on 28 May to sign a new bill providing US$15 billion for HIV/AIDS, to be spen...
Vol 44 No 11 | LIBYAUNITED STATES Getting to know the Colonel again 30th May 2003 One-time Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Chester Crocker and two American oil companies are urging President George W. Bush to start a cautious rapprochement with ...