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Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga, the presidential candidate of the National Super Alliance coalition, and his running mate Kalonzo Musyoka attend their campaign rally at the Kamukunji grounds in Nairobi

Decision time

Kenya’s 2022 election: Kalonzo Musyoka limps to the ballot box

Kenya’s former vice-president Kalonzo Musyoka is at crossroads of his political career as the August presidential election fast approaches. ...

1st-time novelist wins big

Osvalde Lewat wins the Pan-African Literature Prize with ‘Les Aquatiques’

In her first novel, the documentary filmmaker and photographer Osvalde Lewat attacks social conventions. The Pan-African Literature prize - newly ... created by the DRC’s President and the African Union’s Chairperson Félix Tshisekedi, and accompanied by $30,000 – will be awarded to her in February in Addis Ababa at the next African Union heads of state summit. I had a chance to meet her shortly before she will receive this award.

tackling insecurity

Nigeria: ‘We’re in a post-ideology age – people just want what works,’ says Ekiti governor Fayemi

The governor of Nigeria’s Ekiti State and chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum talks to The Africa Report about the country’s security ... challenges, building democracy and the importance of devolution.

Chokehold

South Africa’s ports need private investment to break inefficiency logjam

Improving South Africa’s ports, which rank among the most inefficient in the world, will need greater private-sector investment, executives ... and investors say.

Sarah, 20, reacts while watching a Guinea counter-attack against Algeria on screen during the Africa Cup of Nations 2019 (Afcon), in Algiers

level up

AFCON: Cameroon, Gambia surprise, Morocco vs Egypt in quarter-finals

The round of 16 of the 2021 African Cup of Nations saw the favourites Nigeria and Côte d'Ivoire fail to qualify, while Cameroon, Morocco and ... Senegal all qualified with difficulty. Gambia and Equatorial Guinea, for their part, eliminated Guinea and Mali.

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child labour

DRC: Ethically produced batteries need industry-wide collaboration

Six years ago, Amnesty International shocked the world by exposing human rights abuses and child labour in the DRC. The report, titled ‘This ... is what we die for’ painted a grim picture of abuse, tragedy and hardship in the DRC’s artisanal cobalt mines.

in crowd

DRC: Who’s who in Patrick Muyaya’s network of influential advisors

Throughout his political career, the DRC’s communication minister Patrick Muyaya has built up a solid network, which he continues to rely on ... in his new role.

Kenya’s 2022 election: Kalonzo Musyoka limps to the ballot box

tackling insecurity

Nigeria: ‘We’re in a post-ideology age – people just want what works,’ says Ekiti governor Fayemi

Chokehold

South Africa’s ports need private investment to break inefficiency logjam

Decision time

Kenya’s 2022 election: Kalonzo Musyoka limps to the ballot box

tackling insecurity

Nigeria: ‘We’re in a post-ideology age – people just want what works,’ says Ekiti governor Fayemi

Chokehold

South Africa’s ports need private investment to break inefficiency logjam

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levelling up

China-Africa: Beijing’s new diplomacy on the continent

The China-Africa summit in Dakar, which was held at the end of November 2021, marked the 20th anniversary of a partnership that both Beijing ... and the continent consider solid and indispensable, as the Covid-19 crisis has once again demonstrated.

shareprice shanghai

Beijing and Tencent are putting Naspers under increasing pressure

The South African group Naspers has completely transformed itself after investing early in the Chinese giant Tencent. However, in recent years, ... the latter's success has created problems. The Chinese authorities, by attacking digital players, have complicated matters.

King Mohammed VI of Morocco and Ivorian president Alassane Ouattara talk on the "Mirage" boat prior to arriving at the One Planet Summit

African pivot

Money talks in Morocco’s pivot to Africa

Morocco has reshaped its world view since the financial crisis. With increasing emphasis on anglophone economies, Rabat is looking to be a trans-continental ... player.

Flight of the white coats

Why Africa is losing its doctors

Young African doctors often go abroad to complete their studies and then stay there. This has resulted in a massive brain drain during this time ... of Covid-19. Morocco, Tunisia, Rwanda and Senegal have put countermeasures in place.

Man in charge

Burkina Faso: Who is Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, the man at the head of the junta?

On 24 January, a group of soldiers seized power by overthrowing President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré. The self-proclaimed Mouvement Patriotique ... pour la Sauvegarde et la Restauration (MPSR) has announced that 41-year-old lieutenant-colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, who has an 'exemplary' record, will be taking over as the country’s leader. A profile of the coup leader.

Spoiler splits

Zimbabwe: Are President Mnangagwa’s spoiler parties imploding?

Ahead of the 26 March by-elections, which is set to help the ruling party, Zimbabwe's opposition parties are divided. ...

citizen status

Uganda: How the Nubians went from mercenaries to citizens

It’s been well over a century since the Nubian people arrived in Uganda from what was then Sudan, as the armed enforcers of the British colonial ... government.

Africa in 2022

Nigeria 2023: Who will succeed President Buhari?

Welcome to the Muhammadu Buhari Succession Show! In it, an ageing patriarch sits atop a hard-fought electoral empire built up slowly over the ... course of many bruising campaigns. Which of his children will inherit?

Business as Usual?

Burkina Faso: Gold miners hope they can live with new regime

Initial reaction from gold miners in Burkina Faso suggests that this week’s coup may not harm their operations. ...

Protest over fuel and power price rises in Gwagwalada

forward march

Will Nigerian unions heed calls to suspend the fuel subsidy strike?

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) are to follow through with plans for a nationwide strike on Thursday 27 ... January, despite the Federal Government planning to reverse plans to cut fuel subsidy

Torn choices

Sahara: The Polisario Front, guided by Algeria, is losing its way

Although the Polisario has been taking up arms against Morocco since November 2020, its leaders are finding it difficult to agree on an official ... position vis-à-vis the UN.

Spy operation

Algeria: M’henna Djebbar, the government’s ‘anti-subversion man’

The new body headed by the Algerian general M'henna Djebbar is dedicated to surveilling opposition political movements. ...

Africa Cup of Nations - Group E - Ivory Coast v Algeria

midfield metronome

AFCON: Ibrahim Sangaré tipped to push Côte d’Ivoire to victory

With Ghana, Algeria and Nigeria all out of the tournament, and Senegal having stuttered unconvincingly in the group phase, Côte D’Ivoire seemed ... to be the most balanced of the bigger teams initially tipped to succeed. Much of that has to do with the midfield mix offered by Franck Kessie, Jean Michael Seri and – the least experienced of the trio – Ibrahim Sangaré.

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