Vol 45 No 14 | GHANAAROUND AFRICA 419, and counting 9th July 2004 Advanced Fee Frauds or '419s', have become as common in Ghana as in Nigeria, where they were invented. Ghanaian banks have published warnings in the press that their signatures or ...
Vol 45 No 13 | SUDANAROUND AFRICA Genocide watch 25th June 2004 As United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan is taking the heat for UN inaction on the Darfur genocide, Washington is under mounting pressure to act. Worried about 'another Rwand...
Vol 45 No 13 | WESTERN SAHARAAROUND AFRICA Iraq first 25th June 2004 After seven frustrating years, former United States Secretary of State James Baker III has resigned as the United Nations Secretary General's Special Envoy to Western Sahara. He is...
Vol 44 No 22 | AROUND AFRICAEUROPEAN UNION Money, perhaps 7th November 2003 The European Commission proposes to spend 250 million euros to back peacekeeping operations in Africa and European Union ministers will soon decide whether to go ahead. This was fo...
Vol 43 No 11 | FRANCEAROUND AFRICA Rightist regime 31st May 2002 Africa will be a low priority for the new team at the Elysée and Quai d'Orsay Africa will lose even more of its special status under France's new conservative government, appointed by President Jacques Chirac after his 82 per cent re-election victory over Je...