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  • :At one stage Young opened a bank account in Aberdeen in the name of Mycroft Holmes (brother of the fictional ...t Scottish Tory conference. Their agency - whose clients include the South African consul in Edinburgh - has reached a shortlist of four for a lucrative Scott
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  • ...ses in Mayfair, central London. It was set up in 1983 with a pounds 75,000 bank loan, underwritten by the Department of Employment. ...eland): [[Noel Little]], [[Samuel Quinn]], and [[James King]], and a South African diplomat, [[Daniel Storm]], to whom they were delivering parts for a Blowpi
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  • ...ing work throughout Southern Africa and purchased equipment from the South African Defence Force. At least pounds 75,000 of Prince Bernhard's donation was use ...ms really began. The team established cordial relations with various South African agencies based on mutual self-help, which immediately made them suspect to
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  • ...] for this purpose. It was later claimed the project was a front for South African attempts to undermine neighbouring states.<ref>The SAS: Savage Wars of Peac ...e up a post as director of the South African Nature Foundation - the South African branch of WWF. Dr Hanks, a British citizen, had worked for 10 years in Sout
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  • ...le it had a controlling interest in the highly successful Asian investment bank [[Jardine Fleming]]. It also had 7,800 employees and operations in 44 count Another sense in which the bank was an 'enigma' is that it had strong associations with the British militar
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  • ...SL's role in Mozambique involved training government troops to fight South African-backed [[RENAMO]] guerrillas.<ref>The SAS: Savage Wars of Peace:1947 to the They have also worked extensively with the [[United Nations]] and the [[World Bank]].
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  • ...a member of the Board and Chairman of the Governance Committee of [[ICICI Bank]] (UK), Board of the Africa Virtual University; Governing Council of the [[ ...de Working Group whose aim is to identify the primary constraints to intra African trade, to focus on the causes and recommend actions to eliminate the barrie
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  • ...p.382</ref> According to an account later given by an agent of The South African [[Bureau Of State Security]] (BOSS): "Most of the people associated with it ...n 1981 he was appointed Manager, Loan Syndications at [[Standard Chartered Bank]], responsible for arranging major international loans. <ref>geraldhoward.o
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  • * Consultant, Kleinwort Benson Bank * President, African Caribbean Westminster Business Initiative
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  • ...Green College]]; formerly Director and Principal, [[School of Oriental and African Studies]] and Deputy Vice Chancellor, [[University of London]]; and previou ...21st Century School]], Oxford, 2006-present; Vice President of [[The World Bank]] 2003-2006)
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  • ...cility Council]] Board of Governors and has been the coordinator for the [[African Water Resources Network]] for the past eight years.<ref>World Water Council
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  • ...t Out of Africa'' (Harvard University Press, March 2008), claims that poor African farmers are denied access to productive technologies, particularly GM seeds ...even other forms of biotechnology. Yet such methods have performed well in African contexts.<ref>Ian Scoones and Dominic Glover, [http://www.gmwatch.org/index
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  • ...ld complement the already existing international institutions, the [[World Bank]] and the [[International Monetary Fund]]. The ITO would have been responsi ...just in its operations than other organizations, such as the IMF and World Bank, in which voting power is allocated according to the financial contribution
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  • *Chairman of the EU Board of the East African Community Development Association *Business systems analyst, NatWest Bank Overseas Department (1989-1991).
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  • ...arliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) *BA (Hons.) (1983). Studied at the Polytechnic of the South Bank, London, the Department of Political Science, Stuttgart University and the
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  • ...arliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) ...arliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU)
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  • ...inrich Boell Foundation]], the [[Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies]], the [[China Institute for International Strategic Studies]], [[N ...Organizations]], Sir [[James Wolfensohn]], former president of the [[World Bank]], and billionaire [[Charles Bronfman]] who co-founded [[Taglit-Birthright]
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  • ...slation and policy has been directed by the business world. “[[The World Bank]], which provides billions of dollars in public money to fossil fuel compan ...person delegation to Senegal to round up support for the CDM from over 20 African nations. In return for their support the delegation promised foreign invest
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  • ...d in 1951 to join BEA at Renfrew before taking up a variety of posts (West African Airways, Britavia etc). After much discussion with two colleagues in Glasgo ...ss career. Apart from high-profile directorships with the likes of [[Royal Bank of Scotland]] and [[Martin Currie Pacific Trust]], he was given the [[Scott
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  • ...both aristocratic lineages maintained a connection (via the Bank and Royal Bank of Scotland) is more significant.<ref>Thomas, H., Ed. (1959) ''The Establis ...powerful group of London shipping and banking interests centred around the Bank of England and Baring Brothers merchant bankers, Parliament passed a Statem
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