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Africa: Shadow states are threatening democracy on the continent

Two recent reports show evidence that democracy in Africa is being threatened by private power networks. ...

racial inequality

What is ‘white privilege’ and why does understanding it matter

The term 'white privilege' has gained global popularity as a means of challenging people to confront the racial disparities we see in the world. ...

friend or foe?

Angola: Does the return of José Eduardo dos Santos signal a truce with President Lourenço?

Angola’s former president José Eduardo dos Santos has returned to Luanda after a two year absence to find that his party, the MPLA, is more ... divided than ever. Has he come back to seek a truce with his successor, João Lourenço?

Contract woes

Mali- Russia: Bamako to sign contract with Wagner Group

The contract between Mali and Russia's Wagner Group stipulates that 1,000 Russian mercenaries will be deployed. Paris is trying to prevent it ... from being finalised.

same script, different cast?

Tanzania: Is President Hassan falling back on Magufuli’s policies to keep the CCM united?

Internal struggles within Tanzania's ruling party continue to grow at a time when President Samia Suluhu Hassan is trying to build support and ... gain control of the ruling Chama cha Mapinduzi.

Trans-Atlantic

Nollywood goes state-side as The Africa Channel, Canal+ target diaspora

The Africa Channel plans to make Nigerian films available in the US, Canada and the Caribbean in early 2022, Brendan Gabriel, the channel’s ... vice president of production and creative director, tells The Africa Report.

Somalia's newly elected President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo listens to Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta during his inauguration ceremony in Somalia's capital Mogadishu

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Somalia: Farmaajo rift with Roble threatens October elections

The power struggle between Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed (Farmaajo) and Prime Minister Mohamed H. Roble peaked on Thursday ... 16 September after the executive powers of the PM were suspended by the President. The clash further risks dividing the country, already behind schedule for its 10 October presidential polls.

Angola: Does the return of José Eduardo dos Santos signal a truce with President Lourenço?

same script, different cast?

Tanzania: Is President Hassan falling back on Magufuli’s policies to keep the CCM united?

Trans-Atlantic

Nollywood goes state-side as The Africa Channel, Canal+ target diaspora

friend or foe?

Angola: Does the return of José Eduardo dos Santos signal a truce with President Lourenço?

same script, different cast?

Tanzania: Is President Hassan falling back on Magufuli’s policies to keep the CCM united?

Trans-Atlantic

Nollywood goes state-side as The Africa Channel, Canal+ target diaspora

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divided continent

Africa should negotiate collectively with China at FOCAC, but that’s not going to happen

The next Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) is coming up, but Africa is still too divided to go in with a collective agenda. ...

The Big Question

Kenya: Can the new IEBC conduct free and fair elections in August 2022 ?

Kenyans are now placing their hopes on the newly constituted Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) to conduct free and fair ... elections in August 2022.

fintech revolution

Africa: MTN and Flutterwave partnership is big for digital inclusion

MTN's new deal with payments technology firm, Flutterwave is set to deliver cash to mobile wallets of more Africans via MTN Mobile Money (MoMo) ... with the planned expansion in Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia.

It’s complicated

DRC – China: Tshisekedi to revisit working relationship with Beijing

Kinshasa wants to review its relationship with Beijing, as only a few projects have been launched ever since the two capitals signed their 2008 ... cooperation agreement, which provided for the construction of public buildings and roads worth $9bn.

Trojan horse

La vie en rose? How the CIA manipulated Louis Armstrong in the Congo

Famous American jazz musician Louis Armstrong toured Africa many times; visits that were often orchestrated by the US State Department to build ... relations between Washington and recently decolonised regions of Africa.

Newfound allies

Gambia: Will Jammeh help Adama Barrow secure a second term?

Three months before Gambia’s upcoming presidential election, Adama Barrow’s National People's Party and Yahya Jammeh’s Alliance for Patriotic ... Reorientation and Construction (APRC) announced that they were joining forces.

jihadist rule

The Sahel: How Jihadists govern in different ways

In the Sahel region, jihadists insurgents with varying ways of governing can be found, and it is important to understand these differences. ...

Wheeler Dealer

South Africa: Mediclinic to cut Eskom dependence with renewable-energy accord

South African private healthcare group Mediclinic International plans to reduce its reliance on power from state-owned Eskom with a new renewable-energy ... agreement, the company’s infrastructure executive Kobus Jonck tells The Africa Report.

Silicon Cape

South Africa: New Cape Town Stock Exchange to target the small caps JSE leaves behind

South Africa's Cape Town city, which bills itself as Africa's digital hub, is set to have its own stock exchange with simplified listing rules ... to encourage small companies.

A simple misunderstanding?

Were US soldiers really involved in Guinea’s latest coup?

[Fact-checking] After a video was released showing a number of US marines celebrating the fall of Guinea’s President Alpha Condé, rumours ... started spreading about their possible involvement in the coup. Washington has formally denied them.

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state individuality

Nigeria’s VAT storm, and the ‘Overmighty Subjects’

Nigeria's Governor Ezenwo Nyesom Wike of Rivers State is an example of Nigerian states asserting their authority against the central power based ... in Abuja...but it's not certain if he will succeed.

REINVENTING ITSELF

Morocco’s railway operator ONCF back on track with freight

Threatened by its dependence on the OCP group (Office Chérifien des Phosphates), which has diversified its modes of phosphate transport, the ... Moroccan National Railways Office (ONCF) has managed to rebound by positioning itself as an indispensable logistical player for many industries, the automobile industry in particular.

Court matters

Libya: Will Gaddafi’s billions soon be unfrozen?

The last round of the dispute between the Kuwaiti group Al Kharafi and the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA) played out on 14 September before ... the Court of Cassation in Paris. The LIA may well end up losing several hundred million euros.

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