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Lights, Action

Ghana’s industrialisation to benefit from Tema LNG terminal

Sub-Saharan Africa’s first liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal at Tema can turn Ghana into a petroleum hub, Tema LNG managing director ... Edmund Agyeman-Duah tells The Africa Report.

Soldiers loyal to Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar stand in formation during Independence Day celebrations in Benghazi, Libya

nothing lasts forever

Egypt – UAE: Has Libya come between the longtime allies?

Through thick and thin, the United Arab Emirates has been a longtime supporter of Egypt in the fight to defeat political Islam, until now. Libya ... has shown itself to be the one thing that will divide these longtime allies.

An electoral baptism

Morocco: A new dawn for the Amazigh cause

This new year begins with an electoral baptism in Morocco: that of the Front de l'Action Politique Amazighe (FAPA), founded in January 2020. ...

respect your elders

Somalia: Why clan elders are vital in launching talks with Al-Shabaab

The Al-Qaeda-affiliated Al-Shabaab insurgent group and the Somali government have remained locked in a violent stalemate for years. ...

Checkmate? / Political Manoeuvres

Côte d’Ivoire : How much influence can Soro wield despite his distance?

In exile, the former president of the National Assembly maintains his strategy: by taking a tough stance and refusing to give in to Alassane ... Ouattara. But will he be able to maintain his position on the Ivorian political chessboard, despite the distance?

Wednesday, 20 January 2021

New faces of government

Côte d’Ivoire: How is President Ouattara preparing his future government?

President Ouattara is expected to form his next government after the legislative elections scheduled for 6 March. ...

Office of the Future

Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, Nigeria lead Africa office demand rebound, says Haussmann Africa

West Africa is set to lead a recovery in demand for African office space in 2021, Haussmann Africa chief operating officer Maxime Chauvelot tells ... The Africa Report.

music under lockdown

2020: A great year for Nigerian Afrobeats?

The year 2020 will not be forgotten in a hurry. A leap year ushering in the Covid-19 pandemic which has claimed millions of lives globally and ... has left the world’s economy in tatters.

new deal

To exit the Covid-19 era, Africa needs to rebuild the social contract

Prospects that the record-breaking vaccine development and distribution plans will start to counter the political and economic devastation of ... the pandemic have opened this year with a blast of hope and goodwill. It will be short-lived unless there are credible efforts to launch a new social contract.

Grain Wars

Algeria : a battle between Paris and Moscow for the wheat market

Algeria's desire to diversify its wheat supply has led to competition between France and Russia. A strategy that involves risks, explains the ... analyst Sébastien Abis.

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abiy's dilemmas

Is Ethiopia coming together or falling apart?

Abiy and his Amhara supporters are in the ascendancy - but Ethiopia’s future is by no means assured. Nominally in an effort to restore law ... and order, the federal government led by Ethiopia’s peace prize-winning premier is engaged in a brutal conflict with the defiant erstwhile leaders of Tigray region.

photo exhibition

‘Congo in Conversation’: A visual journey by Congolese photojournalists

Currently available online and in print, a “Congo in Conversation”-themed exhibition will be on display in Paris through 27 January. Touching ... on issues such as the environment, epidemics and youth activism, a dozen DRC-born photojournalists show their version of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The Nigerian billionaire Tony Elumelu

oil bet

Nigeria: Tony Elumelu gets deeper into oil sector with OML 17

The Nigerian billionaire acquired from Shell, Total and ENI the ownership of 45% of a producing oil block in the Niger Delta. With the blessing ... of the Nigerian authorities, who want to develop domestic companies.

Demonstration by descendants of Moorish slaves in Nouakchott

tough nut

Mauritania: ‘Some of our neighbours have a bigger slavery problem than we do’

The president of Mauritania’s human rights commission, Ahmed Salem Bouhoubeyni, talks about the organisation’s efforts to root out slavery ... in the country. Despite being illegal since 1981, slavery continues to be a persistent problem in Mauritania and the country is regularly criticised on this front by international organisations and NGOs.

gone girl

Senegal : What French investigators know so far about Diary Sow’s disappearance

The Senegalese student Diary Sow, who until recently was attending preparatory classes at the Parisian secondary school Louis-le-Grand, disappeared ... voluntarily for reasons that are still unclear. That has been the conclusion reached by the French investigators assigned to the case.

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. ...

Tuesday, 19 January 2021

students

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.

Sudan Ethiopia

The crisis continues

Can Ethiopia heal after the TPLF killings? ‘We cannot bury everyone’ says ENDF

Across Tigray Region, sporadic fighting and looting continues, while 4.5 million people remain dependent on humanitarian assistance says the ... United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and Ethiopia’s Human Right Commission.

bye-bye Trump

What can Africa expect from the Biden administration?

Tomorrow, the whole world’s eyes will be on the inauguration of Joe Biden. Stepping into a moment of unprecedented domestic crisis, he will ... probably have relatively little bandwidth for Africa.

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