Vol 58 No 16 | NIGERIAUNITED KINGDOM Trading places and faces 4th August 2017 A web of commodity, oil and property companies face growing scrutiny as Nigerian and British investigators collaborate As Britain's long-running investigations into Nigerian former Oil Minister Diezani Allison-Madueke move towards a finale in October, they have now snagged a clutch of ambitious Nig...
Vol 58 No 13 | UNITED KINGDOMAFRICA UK vote stalls trade talks 23rd June 2017 The British government's failure to get a mandate for a 'hard Brexit' leaves its plans for increased African trade on the back burner The United Kingdom's shock election result on 8 June, which deprived Prime Minister Theresa May of her governing majority, is likely to alter radically her Conservative government'...
Vol 58 No 9 | UNITED KINGDOMAFRICA Less Blair for Africa 28th April 2017 Never known for keeping a low profile, British former Prime Minister Tony Blair has been in the news again with the launch of his Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI). The ...
Vol 58 No 8 | UNITED KINGDOMAFRICA Desperation and inspiration 14th April 2017 With the United Kingdom's divorce from the European Union now under way, government and business have launched a charm offensive in a bid to strengthen trade partnerships with othe...
Vol 58 No 7 | NIGERIAUNITED KINGDOM The great oil chase 31st March 2017 A joint British-Nigerian probe into how tens of billions of dollars of oil money went missing promises to be the most thorough yet Oil industry experts calculate that Nigeria may have lost US$100 billion from 2010 to 2015 from outright theft and excessively disadvantageous production and trading deals. Audits ...
Vol 58 No 4 | LIBERIAUNITED KINGDOM Taylor calls politicians from prison 10th February 2017 The convicted mass murderer is making phone calls to supporters and enemies in Liberia from his maximum security prison in Britain Africa Confidential has obtained a recording of a phone call of Charles Taylor giving political advice to his supporters in Liberia. The call appeared to use a landline inside Fran...
Vol 52 No 18 | LIBYAMOZAMBIQUESUDANUNITED KINGDOM Lobbying on 9th September 2011 Just as Mozambique’s Resistência Nacional Moçambicana threatens to return to violence, the man who championed it at the height of its atrocities has surfaced in papers found in the...
Vol 46 No 18 | UNITED KINGDOMAFRICA Terror imperative 9th September 2005 Britain will soon have defence attachés (DAs) in Algeria and Sudan but will lose its DA in Angola and probably other African countries to pay for them. A sergeant is prepari...
Vol 45 No 20 | UNITED KINGDOMAFRICA Gullible's travels 8th October 2004 'African Voices' is the trendy title of the Commission for Africa (CFA) meeting in Addis Ababa on 7-8 October. Chaired by UK Premier Tony Blair, who launched the CFA in February, t...
Vol 45 No 10 | CONGO-KINSHASAUNITED KINGDOM Diamond defamation 14th May 2004 Oryx Natural Resources has finally lost the legal battle to clear its name and dropped its libel action against the London daily The Independent, which accused the company of money...