Divided we fall Benin: President Patrice Talon’s re-election bid faces little threat from a divided opposition Rather than uniting ahead of the April presidential elections, Benin's opposition is splitting and weakening. ...
keeping the nest open Advice to Africans: Don’t send your children to study in the West If you are an African of means, of moderate wealth, please stop accepting the fancy but illusive idea that educating your children in the West, ... namely Europe and North America, is a good idea, enhances for your sense of achievement, of self-worth and/or is good for the inter-generational transfer of the fruits of your labour. Experience strongly suggests otherwise.
Stepping up ‘This is not your grandfather’s IMF’, says Africa department director Abebe Selassie The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has proven an unlikely countervailing force to the disrepair of international institutions exposed by the ... pandemic and worsened by nationalism and populism.
To leave or not to leave CAR: Peacekeepers regain control of Bangassou from armed rebels Two weeks after taking control, the CPC rebels - who have been conducting an offensive against President Faustin-Archange Touadéra’s regime ... since December - left the city of Bangassou, 750 km east of the capital Bangui, after receiving an ultimatum from the UN.
Mission Critical Africa: Expanding power access is crucial to resisting pandemics Funding for developing solar power solutions in Africa must move up the global agenda if the continent is to be able to withstand current and ... future pandemics, Zola Electric CEO Bill Lenihan tells The Africa Report.
democratic transitions Niger: Democratic progress hindered by increasing insurgency Despite the twin problems – poverty and insecurity – that have faced Niger in the past few decades, President Mahamadou Issoufou successfully ... completed his two-term tenure.
Vaccine Rollout Covid-19: ‘All African countries have the capacity to carry out mass vaccinations’ – Nkengasong Director of the Africa CDC, the Cameroonian virologist John Nkengasong is the main coordinator of the fight against Covid-19 on the continent ... and the African Union’s representative on this matter. He insists on the need to stop being dependent on other countries in matters of public health. That starts with the push to procure vaccines.
A Trial of Endurance Steinmetz, Covid-19 and diapers: Frenchman Frédéric Cilin breaks down his role in BSGR French businessman Frédéric Cilins, Beny Steinmetz’s co-defendant before the Geneva Criminal Court, was the star of the third day of hearings. ... For ten hours, he spoke about his business with Lansana Conté’s Guinea to his dealings with the FBI.
Hard Currency Angola’s oil refinery can strengthen public finances, says Gemcorp Angola’s under-construction oil refinery at Cabinda can help strengthen the country’s public finances by reducing pressure on foreign-currency ... reserves, Gemcorp CEO Atanas Bostandjiev tells The Africa Report.
new opposition Uganda elections: Museveni wins, Bobi Wine the rising power in parliament No one is surprised that Uganda’s long-term President Yoweri Museveni has won a sixth term in office. But the real change has been a changing ... of the guard in the opposition, with long-term opponent Kizza Besigye supplanted as the key political foe to Museveni by Bobi Wine. Both in parliament, and as target for Museveni's security services.