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South Africa: Malema orchestrates anti-French resentment outside the Sahel

Anti-French demonstrations are growing beyond former French colonies... Hundreds of South African protesters on wednesday 25 May demanded the ... departure of a "post-colonial imperialist" France from the African continent.

Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud takes office in Mogadishu

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Somalia: President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud may use port deals to reset relations with Ethiopia

Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, the former president of Somalia (2012 – 2017), is back in the saddle after a prolonged electoral process that has left ... the country fractured. Can he pull his country together, and reset relations with Ethiopia?

Bittersweet

Ghana: The coming cocoa production slump

Ghana produced a record 1.4m tonnes of cocoa beans in the 2020/21 season. This year has been much tougher. “Last season we ended the year with ... our highest production, but this year, seeing galamsey [illegal mining] taking a lot of our cocoa lands and the extensive harmattan, our production will be affected,” says Fiifi Boafo, public affairs manager of Ghana’s state-run Cocobod, which manages the sector.

Nadir Larbaoui, Morocco's permanent representative to the UN, and Omar Hilale, Algeria's ambassador to the UN. ©DR; Albin Lohr-Jones/SIPA

tit for tat

Algeria-Morocco: Larbaoui versus Hilale, a duel with regionalist overtones

The latest assertion from Morocco’s permanent representative to the UN against Algeria’s UN ambassador shows that Rabat is now determined ... to use the Kabyle card as a tool of counter-attack in the Western Sahara dossier.

South Africa's former President Zuma faces a state corruption inquiry, in Johannesburg

COST OF CAPTURE

South Africa: 10 facts to know about the Zondo Commission reports

South Africa’s R800bn ($50.9bn)-a-year public sector spend on goods and services is the conduit between corrupt tender practices and political ... party funding, according to the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into State Capture (Zondo Commission) reports.

Nelson Chamisa's new Citizens’ Coalition for Change (CCC) won the March legislative and municipal by-elections by a landslide. Reuters -Philimon Bulawayo

Home rule

Zimbabwe: Battle for control of Harare City Council rages on

The central government continues to run roughshod over Harare two months after the opposition nominally regained control over Zimbabwe's capital ... city.

Egyptian king

Egypt’s Mohamed Salah, footballer with a big heart

World-famous for his performances with his club Liverpool, the future Champions League finalist is also a man who regularly offers a helping ... hand to his compatriots. All while carefully avoiding attempts at political recuperation.

Somalia: President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud may use port deals to reset relations with Ethiopia

Bittersweet

Ghana: The coming cocoa production slump

tit for tat

Algeria-Morocco: Larbaoui versus Hilale, a duel with regionalist overtones

reset course

Somalia: President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud may use port deals to reset relations with Ethiopia

Bittersweet

Ghana: The coming cocoa production slump

tit for tat

Algeria-Morocco: Larbaoui versus Hilale, a duel with regionalist overtones

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Film 'Tirailleurs'

Senegal: ‘We don’t have the same memory, but we have the same history’ says Omar Sy

For the first time, the fate of the Senegalese riflemen who served in WWI is the subject of a mainstream film. One of France’s favourite actors, ... international star Omay Sy produced and stars in ‘Tirailleurs’ (Shooters).

Ernest Addison, Governor of the Bank of Ghana talks during the bank’s Monetary Policy Committee new conference in Accra

Baffled

Ghana needs more than interest-rate increases to curb inflation

Ghana needs to reduce taxes on some imports and take long-term supply-side measures as interest rates alone are no longer capable of controlling ... inflation, James Dzansi, an economist at the International Growth Centre in Accra, tells The Africa Report.

strategic platform

Ghana: Kwahu Summit announced to boost intra-Africa trade

Ghana hosts the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) secretariat. Now, the government wants to gather the continent’s business and political ... leaders for an annual convention to drive Africa’s single continental market agenda: the Kwahu Summit, 28 & 29 October 2022.

Young and old

Côte d’Ivoire: 88-yr old Henri Konan Bédié confronts young & discontented PDCI activists

The PDCI, Côte d'Ivoire’s oldest party, is still led by 88-year-old Henri Konan Bédié. Part of the younger generation want him gone before ... the next elections.

moving parties

Nigeria: Peter Obi quits PDP; boosts Atiku’s chances

Former governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, has resigned from the opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) and is believed to have also ... dropped out of the 2023 presidential race. Will he join a new party?

bottoms up

Kenya’s drinkers will pay stiff price for new alcohol tax – EABL CEO Karuku

East African Breweries (EABL) is lobbying Kenya’s parliament to reject a proposed increase in excise duty on beer and spirits. ...

one political party

Burundi: The CNDD-FDD, a steamroller leaving little space for the opposition

Despite some measures of appeasement, particularly among exiles, Burundian political life remains firmly locked by the ruling party. But the ... 2018 constitutional revision could change the power balance.

emergency situation

Will AfDB’s $1.5bn plan be enough to tackle food crisis?

Prices of food, especially wheat and bread as well as key agricultural inputs, such as fertiliser, have been pushed to new heights in Africa ... due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The situation is getting worse, but the African Development Bank (AfDB) says Africa will not face a food crisis

Ratings Rising

S&P revises South Africa’s outlook from stable to positive

S&P Global Ratings has revised South Africa’s outlook from stable to positive, citing favourable trade, contained fiscal expenditure, and structural ... reforms.

Kalonzo Musyoka (twitter: @TheWiperParty)

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Kenya: Will Musyoka return to Raila or take up Ruto’s offer?

Just a week after Kalonzo Musyoka announced his exit from Raila Odinga's Azimio la Umoja One Kenya coalition, Deputy President William Ruto has ... seized the moment to offer him a place within his Kenya Kwanza Alliance, even as allies urge the Wiper party leader to return to his original camp.

Bitter feud

Uganda: Coffee controversy deals Museveni a rare defeat in parliament

In power for 36 years, Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has long held near total control over the country. But he recently suffered a rare ... defeat in parliament after legislators ignored his wishes and opted to terminate a lucrative coffee processing and export agreement that the government had handed to an Italian investor. Voting for the termination were many members of Museveni's ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM).

Relief projects

World Bank pledges $30bn for fragile countries, especially ones in Africa

The World Bank plans to cushion the effects of rising food prices by funding initiatives in the agriculture, nutrition, social protection, water ... and irrigation sectors.

Electric power lines are pictured outside Egbin power plant in Ikorodu on the outskirts of Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos

on the grid

Nigeria’s First Presidential Power Initiative to boost capacity to 25,000MW by 2025

With the global shift to clean and renewable energy, oil-producing Nigeria is in the eye of the storm as oil giants begin to exit its shores. ...

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