"I do not know if a winner will emerge from the signing of the economic partnership agreements [EPAs] under the current conditions, but I know for sure that Africa cannot be the winner," says Amadou Ba, who heads the international negotiations division at Senegal’s Ministry of Commerce.
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/ 11 November 2004
President Thabo Mbeki has his work cut out as mediator in Côte d’Ivoire. Mbeki was dragooned into this job by the African Union after the West African regional mechanism failed to bring about peace in the country. Relations between France and Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo have spiralled into the violence that now necessitates the evacuation of France’s 14 000 nationals.