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The article offers news briefs in Africa. It cites the proposed drastic revision of the defence agreement of the country with African governments by French president Nicolas Sarkozy. President of the Defence White Paper Jean-Claude Mallet asserts the confronting threats faced from the group of top-level civic servants. Further, it introduces the assistance of the signed Abu Dhabi base agreement on the downgrading Djibouti.

The article reports on the fiscal and monetary policy situation affecting the foreign exchange rate transactions in Africa. It states that the financial market has been strong and the paper rate transactions has increased. The strategy of purchasing Old Mutual (OM) shares in Harare and selling to Johannesburg benefits South Africa, as it enables them to raise cash used for the payment of electricity.

Reports that Irish Africa campaigner and rock musician Bob Geldof has persuaded British Prime Minister Tony Blair to set up a commission on Africa to coincide with Great Britain's chairing of the Group of Eight industrial countries and its presidency of the European Union in 2005. Presentation of papers to the Commission by renowned economists and political scientists with the aim of compiling as hard-hitting a report as that produced by German chancellor Willy Brandt's Commission on Third World Development in 1980; Objectives of the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals.