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  • is france messing up africa?

    Posted: July 14, 2010, 11:17 pm by kenopp
    Elizabeth Dickinson at FP asks. Whatever the answer might be one thing is clear: France still has commercial and geopolitical interests in French-speaking Africa and would love to maintain close ties with the region, even if it means propping up misguided dictators who buy homes in the French Riviera while their own people starve. The [...]

  • a very nigerian affair

    Posted: July 14, 2010, 9:57 am by kenopp
    The BBC reports that the Nigerian state owned oil company (NNPC) is insolvent, with a US $ 5 billion debt. Most of the money ($ 3b) is owed to the Federation Account a lootable cash cow that distributes money to different levels of government within the Nigerian state. The country is divided into 36 states [...]
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The end of the fish cakes

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