Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Factual Overview -- I. Sub-Saharan Africa ( Andreas Mehler, Henning Melber & Klaas -- van Walraven ) -- II. African-European relations ( Sven Grimm ) -- III. West Africa ( Klaas van Walraven ) -- Benin ( Cédric Mayrargue ) -- Burkina Faso ( René Otayek ) -- Cape Verde ( Carlos Lopes ) -- Côte d'Ivoire ( Bruno Losch ) -- Gambia ( Ebrima Sall ) -- Ghana ( Paul Nugent ) -- Guinea ( Mike McGovern ) -- Guinea-Bissau ( Carlos Lopes Martim Faria e Maya ) -- Liberia ( Stephen Ellis ) -- Mali ( Walter E.A. van Beek & Moussa Fofana ) -- Mauritania ( Nicolien Zuijdgeest ) -- Niger ( Klaas van Walraven ) -- Nigeria ( Heinrich Bergstresser ) -- Senegal ( Gerti Hesseling ) -- Sierra Leone ( Krijn Peters ) -- Togo ( Dirk Kohnert ) -- IV. Central Africa ( Andreas Mehler ) -- Cameroon ( Piet Konings ) -- Central African Republic ( Andreas Mehler ) -- Chad ( Mirjam de Bruijn & Han van Dijk ) -- Congo ( Rémy Bazenguissa-Ganga ) -- DR Congo ( Denis Tull ) -- Equatorial Guinea ( Cord Jakobeit ) -- Gabon ( Douglas Yates ) -- São Tomé et Príncipe ( Gerhard Seibert ) -- V. Eastern Africa ( Rolf Hofmeier ) -- Burundi ( Filip Reyntjens ) -- Comoros ( Rolf Hofmeier ) -- Djibouti ( Roland Marchal ) -- Eritrea ( Redie Bereketeab ) -- Ethiopia ( Jon Abbink ) -- Kenya ( Marcel Rutten ) -- Rwanda ( Jonas Ewald ) -- Seychelles ( Rolf Hofmeier ) -- Somalia ( Roland Marchal ) -- Sudan ( Albrecht Hofheinz ) -- Tanzania ( Kurt Hirschler & Rolf Hofmeier ) -- Uganda ( Susan Steiner ) -- VI. Southern Africa ( Henning Melber ) -- Angola ( Steve Kibble ) -- Botswana ( Matthias Basedau ) -- Lesotho ( Roger Southall ) -- Madagascar ( Richard Marcus ) -- Malawi ( Jan-Kees van Donge ) -- Mauritius ( Klaus-Peter Treydte ) -- Mozambique ( Joseph Hanlon ) -- Namibia ( Henning Melber ) -- South Africa ( Ineke van Kessel ) -- Swaziland ( John Daniel ) -- Zambia ( Gero Erdmann ) -- Zimbabwe ( Amin Kamete ) -- List of Authors.

The Africa Yearbook covers major domestic political developments, the foreign policy and socio-economic trends in sub-Sahara Africa - all related to developments in one calendar year. The Yearbook contains articles on all sub-Saharan states, each of the four sub-regions (West, Central, Eastern, Southern Africa) focusing on major cross-border developments and sub-regional organizations as well as one article on continental developments and one on European-African relations. While the articles have thorough academic quality, the Yearbook is mainly oriented to the requirements of a large range of target groups: students, politicians, diplomats, administrators, journalists, teachers, practitioners in the field of development aid as well as business people.

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