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Vol 4 No 12
October 2011

Insider trading

Australian financial authorities are investigating the trading activities of resource company executives in two lucrative takeover deals

Vol 4 No 12
October 2011

China Sonangol is open for business

Transparency has not been a major feature of China Sonangol’s and China International Fund’s activities in Africa, but one of the investment vehicles is now embarking on a human-resources drive to bring in professional staff to run the company less l...

Vol 4 No 10
August 2011

Uganda to miss digital deadline

As Huawei Technologies hits trouble in Uganda, Chinese communications projects encounter legal problems from East Africa down to Southern Africa

Vol 4 No 10
August 2011

Build a better arms regime

Countries are calling for a new arms treaty which incorporates human-rights provisions, but China is wary

Vol 4 No 10
August 2011

Arms trade treaty timetable

December 2006: Argentina, Australia, Britain, Costa Rica, Finland, Japan and Kenya author Resolution 61/89, ‘Toward an arms trade treaty: establishing common international standards for the import, export and transfer of conventional arms’. The Unite...

Vol 4 No 10
August 2011

Towering trade

As Africa’s trade with China continues to top its trade with the United States and former colonial powers, African bankers are calling for a united African front. Standard Bank’s Jeremy Stevens predicts that China-Africa trade will more than doubl...

Vol 4 No 10
August 2011

Ready, able and unlikely

Officials at Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) are playing down reports that the government is mulling a naval escort for its ships facing the threat of piracy in the Gulf of Aden. ‘That was just a discussion,’ an official in the Department...

Vol 4 No 9
July 2011

You can pick your friends

The India-Japan joint Africa summit highlights an evolving network of new partnerships seeking to strengthen development, trade and political ties with African countries. Countries have tended to cooperate with others that share a similar ideological pers...

Vol 4 No 7
May 2011

From Dakar to Durban

Tokyo has a global policy agenda and it sees Africa, with more than 50 countries and UN votes, as a valuable ally

Vol 4 No 7
May 2011

Give without counting

The Chinese government is slowly changing its aid reporting statistics so that its programmes can be compared to those of other donors

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