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freedom still undermined?

Tanzania: ‘Freeman Mbowe’s case has been unfair since day one’ says leading human hights activist

The arrest of Tanzania's Freeman Mbowe - who heads the largest opposition party Chadema - on terrorism charges is one that has no basis says ... Anna Henga, the director general of the Legal and Human Rights centre (LHRC). Speaking to The Africa Report, she explains a string of worrisome incidents that have occurred since Samia Suluhu Hassan took over as president.

Dangerous friendships

Guinea: Details on the fast and furious arrest of Tibou Kamara, Alpha Condé’s confidant

Tibou Kamara, the personal adviser and friend to Guinea's deposed president Alpha Condé, was released on 19 September in the mid-afternoon, ... after his sudden arrest from his home in Conakry the previous night.

HealthTech Scale

African health-tech, biotech can emerge as Covid winners, report says

Africa’s health-tech and biotech industries have the opportunity to use Covid-19 to accelerate their development, according to a new report. ...

SURPRISE RECOVERY

South Africa: Transnet & mining sector join hands to resolve bottlenecks at rail and port

Amid an unexpected surge in demand and price boom for commodities, some miners in South Africa are sitting on stockpiles and struggling to reach ... 2019 export targets because of bottlenecks on rail and capacity problems at the country’s ports.

power of prayer

Nigeria: Can TB Joshua’s wife Evelyn unite a divided church?

It has been more than three months since the death of Nigeria's controversial and beloved Pastor TB Joshua of the Synagogue Church of All Nations ... (SCOAN). However, the church is still reeling from the impact of his death, mainly as a result of the lack of a succession plan, a rebellion and an alleged attempt to steal from the church.

African century

UN’s Permanent Forum of People of African Descent: Role for diaspora on ‘the future that Africa deserves’

As the world prepares for this year’s annual United Nations General Assembly, I am pleased to see the organisation will make good on its promise ... to elect members to the newly established Permanent Forum of People of African Descent.

Another one bites the dust

Mali: How France ‘neutralised’ Abu Walid al-Sahrawi, the Islamic State’s emir

After several weeks of uncertainty, President Emmanuel Macron confirmed that French forces had killed Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi, leader of the ... Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (IS-GS). We take a look back to how the French forces managed to achieve this.

Tanzania: ‘Freeman Mbowe’s case has been unfair since day one’ says leading human hights activist

Dangerous friendships

Guinea: Details on the fast and furious arrest of Tibou Kamara, Alpha Condé’s confidant

HealthTech Scale

African health-tech, biotech can emerge as Covid winners, report says

freedom still undermined?

Tanzania: ‘Freeman Mbowe’s case has been unfair since day one’ says leading human hights activist

Dangerous friendships

Guinea: Details on the fast and furious arrest of Tibou Kamara, Alpha Condé’s confidant

HealthTech Scale

African health-tech, biotech can emerge as Covid winners, report says

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junta transitions

Guinea: Can Doumbouya lead the country in a peaceful transition?

Guinea's Lieutenant-Colonel Mamady Doumbouya is launching consultations as mining companies fret and fears grow of a new military era in the ... region.

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safety or power?

Zimbabwe: Is Mnangagwa using Covid-19 restrictions to consolidate power?

When Constantino Chiwenga, Zimbabwe's vice-president and health minister, suspended by-elections in October 2020 citing Statutory Instrument ... (SI) 225A as a means to curb Covid-19, many believed a new date would be set. Instead, the government has remained silent on the matter, with many wondering if this is truly a measure to control the pandemic, or a strategy by the ruling Zanu PF to stop the MDC Alliance from winning back seats it lost after the recall by its breakaway party, the MDC-T.

A witness to the century/The end of the Bouteflika era

Algeria: A journey through the life of former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika

Algeria’s former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika died on the night of 17 September at the age of 84. We take a look at his life that was dominated ... by politics and power.

more harm than good

Nigeria: Has Biafra’s lockdown spun out of control?

A series of lockdowns in Nigeria's southeast caused by the separatist Indigenous People of Biafra (IBOB) sit-at-home directives are causing unprecedented ... hardship and losses never seen since the time of the civil war. There is even a bigger challenge: the situation seems to be out of control, for both the IPOB and governors across the five states in the region.

A South African Airways (SAA) plane is towed at O.R. Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg

Steep Curve

South African Airways needs culture reset as take-off approaches

South African Airways (SAA), which takes to the skies again on 23 September, will need to develop a culture of stable management under its prospective ... new owners if it is to succeed, analysts say.

Sudanese march against paramilitary Rapid Support Forces

Bashir's boys?

Sudan: Attempted coup stopped by security forces say ruling council, 40 arrested

Sudan’s transitional council has announced that it thwarted an attempted coup at dawn on Tuesday 21 September. They are blaming supporters ... of toppled president Omar al-Bashir.

youtube sensation

Chinese vlogger is challenging stereotypes about Africa

Negative stereotypes about Africa are commonplace in China, but one blogger is trying to change this. ...

state-owned power

South Africa: Eskom CEO discusses the way forward for the company

Eskom, South Africa’s state-owned power utility, is facing a litany of challenges. The Conversation Africa asked Professor Anton Eberhard, ... director of the Power Futures Lab at the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business, to pose questions to the power utility’s CEO, André de Ruyter.

partner pressure

US spells out steps Ethiopia must take ‘immediately’ to avoid sanctions

The Joe Biden administration has put Ethiopia on notice that it needs to see rapid progress on ceasefire negotiations and humanitarian access ... to Tigray if Addis Ababa wants to avoid a raft of painful sanctions.

Zoning In on Funding

Nigeria: Lagos Free Zone plans new bond sale early in 2022, CFO says

Lagos Free Zone Company plans to seek new financing early next year after raising 10.5bn naira ($25m) in a bond sale this month, CFO Ashish Khemka ... tells The Africa Report.

open season

Lessons from Africa: Is there such a thing as a ‘good coup’?

Is there such a thing as a good coup? ...

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The million-dollar question

From ‘Made in Kenya’ to hustle economics: what is the 2022 voter buying?

Kenya’s presidential race has been whittled down to economic matters as top politicians try to outclass each other with unique models. Whose ... framework will carry the day?

Former Nigerian minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode

allegiance issues

Nigeria 2023: Why fierce Buhari critic Femi Fani-Kayode joined presidential camp

Ahead of the 2023 general elections in Nigeria, a former minister of aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, who was President Muhammadu Buhari’s fiercest ... critic, has joined the ruling party, the All Progressives Congress (APC). While the move has divided the APC, it appears to be an attempt by Buhari to counter powerful presidential aspirant Bola Tinubu in the south west.

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