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Nigeria: PDP contenders fight for power in south-west

Two opposition heavyweights in the south-west of Nigeria are slugging it out for the leadership of the main opposition party, just as the region ... is threatened by clashes between local farmers and nomadic herders from the north.

At the 11th hour

DRC : A final gift from Trump to the Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler?

Dan Gertler has a one-year respite – until 31 January 2022 to be precise – to continue doing business with US companies. ...

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Equity Strategy

Nigeria’s stock market rally is not built to last

Nigerian stock market valuations rest on interest-rate levels which can’t be sustained indefinitely. ...

GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

US/China: Economists expect trade conflict calm, but no quick fixes

African policy-makers and business leaders are worried about challenges to global growth amidst rising case of the coronavirus and problems in ... vaccine distribution.

no more taboos

Algeria – France: ‘Apologising will not get to the heart of the issue’, says historian Benjamin Stora

Ahead of Algeria's 60th anniversary of independence, French President Emmanuel Macron had commissioned historian Benjamin Stora in 2020 to write ... a report on "the progress made in France on the memory of Algeria's and the Algeria War". He has just submitted his findings on 20 January.

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not over yet

Uganda: High Court orders military to release Bobi Wine from house arrest

The Ugandan High Court has ordered security forces to release opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi (Bobi Wine) and his wife, Barbara Itungo, from ... house arrest.

War Crimes

CAR hands former Seleka leader to ICC on charges of war crimes

Against a backdrop of renewed fighting in the CAR, Mahamat Said Abdel Kani, a leader of the rebel Séléka faction, has been handed over by Central ... African authorities to the International Criminal Court. He is accused of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity between 2013 and 2014.

Monday, 25 January 2021

Food, glorious food

Eaters rejoice as more chefs in African diaspora win Michelin stars

African chefs have been sidelined for a long time. But a new, inventive and talented generation from the continent is making a bigger name for ... itself in the prestigious French culinary guide.

Anwar Sadat

ten years on

Egypt: ‘Not much has changed since 2011’ – Mohamed Anwar Sadat

The Reform and Development Party, headed by Anwar Sadat – named after his uncle and former president Sadat – was legalised just after the ... revolution in 2011. At the time, the growth of new parties provided hope for a multi-party future.

vaccination championships

Covid vaccines: Russia, China, India…Who is supplying Africa?

Covid vaccination campaigns have kicked off across the globe. But while many developed countries are busy inoculating their populations, the ... continent is grappling with growing bilateral agreements with foreign laboratories and mobilising its health professionals.

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no jab, no joy

Covid-19 vaccines in Africa: Mo Ibrahim and others lament sorry state of access

Sudanese billionaire businessman and philanthropist Mo Ibrahim voiced “shock and sadness” at the spectacle of the Global South being excluded ... from the mass Covid-19 vaccination drive taking place in richer countries.

the beauty in the struggle

South Africa: Jonas Gwangwa – The political musician

Music is not a zero-sum game with only one ‘best’. But if you seek to name one musician whose life embodies the South African people’s ... struggle for a national culture, it must be trombonist, composer and cultural activist Jonas Mosa Gwangwa, who was born on 19 October 1937 in Orlando East, Johannesburg, and died on 23 January 2021 in Johannesburg aged 83.

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learning the truth

Egypt’s revolution: The day I finally heard the cries of anger

Can we believe in change? Can we dare to dream of it? Are we ready to fight for it? “Yes, but Egypt is not yet ready for democracy”, is what ... many of the elders around me would say. “In countries like France and the US, people are educated and are aware of the choices they make. Our poor citizens are ignorant and can’t decide on their own” said another another man.

Zimbabwe Cash Crunch

wheelbarrow economics

Zimbabwe: Can the central bank hold rate as inflation soars?

It is economic déjà vu for Zimbabwe as the central bank battles spiralling inflation. The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe is attempting to introduce ... ever-higher denomination notes; but inflation still approaches 400%.

egypt sisi

One-Way Ticket

Sisi’s Egypt: Mega-projects, scared citizens, no succession plan

When Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi spoke to cadets at the country’s Military Academy in Cairo in December, he did so from behind ... a bullet-proof glass pane.

Saturday, 23 January 2021

sudan

long march towards freedom

Sudan: The hijacking of the people’s revolution continues on

The signing of the Juba Peace Agreement and the removal of Sudan from the US black-list of State Sponsors of Terrorism (STT) achieved the main ... objective of General Abdel Fattah Burhan and other members from the former regime under Omar al-Bashir regime: to reestablish international credibility. With that in hand, Khartoum would finally be “free”.

UN Human Rights Council session in Geneva

goodbye is the hardest word

Libya: After five years at the helm, PM Sarraj having trouble letting go

Libya's prime minister had pledged to step down, but an about face has seen him angling to stay on in a new role, say officials. ...

Friday, 22 January 2021

trade jobs

How AfCFTA will decrease conflict by increasing youth employment

Africa’s quest to foster pan-Africanism and integration through the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) could be futile unless deliberate ... steps are made to guarantee peace and security on the continent.

Science, not magic

Nigerian author Tade Thompson takes the science fiction world by storm

Tade Thompson’s literary creations have been racking up awards right and left. ...

Aftermath of the uprising

Egypt: 10 years on, is its revolution an unfulfilled dream of the Arab Spring?

Ten years on from the mass protests that shook Egypt, activists and protesters say nothing has improved, as President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi's ... militarised regime is dominating the public sphere. Citizens warn that police brutality, corruption and poverty are rampant.

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