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  • Vol 2 No 11
  •  September 2009

Nuclear-fuelled relations

New Delhi made one of its most important energy and resource deals in Africa on 31 August, signing an accord with the Namibian government to allow for trade in uranium to supply India's energy-starved electricity sector. Memorandums of understanding signe...

  • Vol 2 No 11
  •  September 2009

The great South Korean commercial offensive

The latest result of the close ties between Kinshasa and Seoul was revealed on 8 September by Générose Lushiku, Congo-Kinshasa's Minister of Urbanism and Habitat, who announced that South Korea's Berea International had won a US$225 million contract to bu...

  • Vol 2 No 11
  •  September 2009

An oil barter rescue

Oil industry officials in Accra are linking Finance Minister Kwabena Duffuor's 18 September statement that Ghana had applied for a US$2 billion concessional loan from China to Beijing's bid for a stake in Ghana's oil and gas industry. On 27 August, Chin...

  • Vol 2 No 10
  •  August 2009

Beijing debates world's biggest aid fund

Chinese officials are discussing ways to use some of their country's $2.1 trillion in foreign reserves to finance what could be the world's biggest development aid programme, as Western economies are still staggering under the weight of recession. Th...

  • Vol 2 No 10
  •  August 2009

KNOC, KNOC, who is there?

In mid-August, Nigeria's Federal High Court overturned President Umaru Yar'Adua's revoking, in January, of Seoul-based Korea National Oil Company's rights to 60% of Oil Prospecting Licences 321 and 323 in a ruling that proved unexpectedly damning for t...

  • Vol 2 No 10
  •  August 2009

Gagner-gagner - they claim

Both sides are claiming victory this month in the long-running negotiations on debt relief between the Kinshasa government and the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Kinshasa has won promises of substantive and rapid relief on some US$11 b...

  • Vol 2 No 10
  •  August 2009

The rice and the rot

Opposition politicians in Delhi are pressing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's Congress Party government for a full investigation into allegations of corrupt deals worth 25 billion rupees (US$520 million) in rice exports from India to five African states...

  • Vol 2 No 9
  •  July 2009

Undue diligence in the timber sector

Malaysian timber conglomerate Samling, which faces accusations of illegal logging, is at the centre of a storm over the bidding by foreign companies for 25-year contracts in Liberia's timber sector. The row follows the leaking of a Liberian government-...

  • Vol 2 No 9
  •  July 2009

End of the line for Durbar

A colourful Pakistani businessman, Saifee Durbar, faces extradition to France on fraud charges following the decision of the Central African Republic on 23 June to withdraw his 'honorific' title as Deputy Foreign Minister.

  • Vol 2 No 9
  •  July 2009

Al Qaida may target Chinese in Africa

More signs are emerging that China is being drawn inexorably into Africa's internal politics and is being compelled to take sides in wider geopolitical disputes. This time, the trigger was the violence between the predominantly Muslim Uighurs and Han ...

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