G8 invites African leaders: so what?
Just came across this:
US President Bush has invited some of his African buddies to meet with G-8 leaders on June 10th: leaders from Algeria, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Uganda will do something very special. They’ll have lunch with the 8 most powerful world leaders. Condoleezza Rice confirmed at a press briefing held this […]
Africa’s economic tragedy revealed
Here’s a great post:
Though Elsa Artadi and Xavier Sala-i-Martin’s contribution to the The Africa Competitiveness Report are worth checking out, The World Economic Forum’s Africa Economic Summit 2004 where it was launched seems pretty underwhelming. However, a lively account of the session What’s Holding Back Africa’s Growth? helps grasp the level of some discussions:
Asked to […]
GSPC leader Abderrezak El Para freed
This is an interesting post:
Algeria’s radical Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) paid 200,000 Euros to the rebel Movement for Justice and Democracy in Chad (MDJT) in order to free Amari Saifi — aka Abderrezak El Para. Proceedings to transfer the GSPC leader from Chad to Algeria have failed. Algeria’s most wanted terrorist had […]
Chains of fools
Larry emailed us this:
First, we learned on Wednesday that Bush had retained counsel with regard to the Plame investigation. Today, CIA Director George Tenet Resigned. What’s the chain of connections here?
* Valerie Plame was a secret operative for the CIA — an officer with “non-official cover”, or a Noc: CIA parlance for spy. She specialized […]
The home stretch in western Kenya
Christine told us about:
Its amazing how being in the home stretch can lift your spirits and more importantly for me, the energy levels in weary legs.
Read the rest here.
Of oilfish and warships: update on the Costal Security Programme
Sam emailed us this:
The latest news from Nigeria paint an interesting picture of things to come in the Gulf of Guinea. Since April, western oil companies have been forced to cut back production in the Delta state because of inter-ethnic as well as guerrilla attacks against oil facilities and foreign oil-workers. But a cease-fire was […]
Whistle-blower says Chad’s oil watchdog powerless
Harold wrote to us about:
In order to monitor the management of oil revenues in Chad, an oversight committee has been set up. Such a committee represented an interesting step towards transparency and accountability in the African oil and gas sector. Because of this, the Chad-Cameroon pipeline project was described as an important case study into […]
Algerian forces hit hard by GSPC
Here’s a great post:
In the most deadly attack on Algerian security forces this year, Islamist rebel group –Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat — GSPC killed 10 soldiers and injured 16.
A military convoy was ambushed on Wednesday by armed rebels on a highway near the port city of Bejaia in the Berber region some 250 […]
Riding an iron dinosaur
John told us about:
At the end of my second day riding westwards from central Kenya I arrived in the large town of Nakuru, situated beside the famous Lake Nakuru that is home to approximately two-thrids of the world’s flamingos.
The entire post can be seen here.
African Clearing House meeting: a new scamble for the continent?
This is an interesting post:
The African ‘clearing house’ meeting took place last week in Luxembourg: as announced in March by EUCOM deputy commander Charles Wald, this meeting of military officers from the US and Europe was organized by the United States to discuss terrorism and oil supplies in Africa. This is an important step towards […]
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