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Nigeria: Buhari personally responsible for $11bn arbitration defeat, London’s High Court told

An offshore company that won a record-breaking arbitration award against Nigeria, has laid the country’s legal defeat at the feet of outgoing ... president Muhammadu Buhari.

OPPOSITION IN THE OPPOSITION

Ghana: Ex-President Mahama launches comeback as his allies reorganise opposition

As former President John Mahama was addressing meetings in Brussels and London last week, his allies in Ghana’s opposition National Democratic ... Congress (NDC) reshuffled some of the party’s key personnel and, according to some activists, sidelined his rivals.

People engage in a scuffle with the security officials before the announcement of the results of Kenya's presidential election, at the IEBC National Tallying Centre at the Bomas of Kenya, in Nairobi, Kenya

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Kenya: Murder, corruption and chaos; who will replace the outgoing electoral boss Chebukati?

After a cancelled election in 2017, and the upheaval at the HQ of the electoral commission in 2022, will Kenya's next slate of election administrators ... be able to deliver on the promise of democracy? A series of unsolved murders and threats against the life of the outgoing chairperson of the commission suggest the road will be a long one.

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Kenya: Raila gives UN/Commonwealth two weeks to investigate alleged electoral malpractice

Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinga has given the United Nations and the Commonwealth a two-week ultimatum to travel to the country and ... investigate alleged electoral malpractice in the August 2022 presidential election.

Nigeria's Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde

awkward situation

Nigeria 2023: Which way will Seyi Makinde jump in Oyo State?

Who will win in Oyo State? Normally, the state would be a walk in the park for the opposition PDP, with a star governor, Seyi Makinde, in charge. ... However - in what may be similar to Rivers State - an opposition rift looks to be gifting the vote bloc to the ruling APC...

keyboard army

Egypt: Digital generation back online to protest cost of living crisis

Egyptians struggling to cope with the country’s economic crisis are turning to online platforms to voice their fears over an uncertain ... future.

diplomacy

How the Gulf monarchies are playing games between the east and west

A recent summit of the Gulf states, of which Chinese leader Xi Jinping was a key attendee, marked the desire of certain Arab capitals to emancipate ... themselves from their American ally. But the question remains – how far are they willing to go in Beijing’s favour?

Nigeria: Buhari personally responsible for $11bn arbitration defeat, London’s High Court told

OPPOSITION IN THE OPPOSITION

Ghana: Ex-President Mahama launches comeback as his allies reorganise opposition

universal suffrage

Kenya: Murder, corruption and chaos; who will replace the outgoing electoral boss Chebukati?

bricks and straws

Nigeria: Buhari personally responsible for $11bn arbitration defeat, London’s High Court told

OPPOSITION IN THE OPPOSITION

Ghana: Ex-President Mahama launches comeback as his allies reorganise opposition

universal suffrage

Kenya: Murder, corruption and chaos; who will replace the outgoing electoral boss Chebukati?

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GOLDEN DREAMS

Why Managem hopes to double its production of West African gold

After launching its gold mine in Guinea, the Moroccan group has bought several gold projects in West Africa, with the aim of doubling its production ... in the coming years.

value trap

Nigerian equities are on the road to nowhere without currency reform

Frontier markets have seen an improvement in sentiment prompted by an end to China’s zero-Covid policy. But, Nigeria’s dual-currency regime ... and the access restrictions imposed on investors mean that Nigerian equities are missing out.

Game of Thrones

South Africa: Why is Zuma criminally prosecuting Ramaphosa?

This month, South Africa’s high court temporarily prohibited ex-president Jacob Zuma from privately prosecuting President Cyril Ramaphosa. ... Observers say this is a continuation of a ‘judicial warfare’ stratregy that, for years, Zuma and his proxies have tinkered with to cripple Ramaphosa.

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) greets Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko

new friends

Zimbabwe’s Mnangagwa welcomes Putin ally Belarus President Lukashenko

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko on Monday arrived in Zimbabwe for talks with his counterpart in what analysts said was an attempt by ... the two leaders to "diversify" their diplomatic ties.

CHEQUEBOOK DIPLOMACY

South Africa: Just Transition’s partners should do more, says Finance minister Godongwana

South Africa’s $8.5bn Just Energy Transition partners, including the US, could do more and should factor greater grant funding in the pledged ... package deal, says Finance minister Enoch Godongwana.

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Somalia: Is shrinking civil society space needed to end Al-Shabaab?

At the end of 2022, the Somali government circulated an informal verbal communication to media houses, urging local news outlets to submit content ... for approval prior to broadcasting. This was at the height of a sustained military campaign against Al-Shabaab and observers saw it as a move to curtail the publication of any content associated with the insurgents. But the government says it’s an effort to match the Islamist’s propaganda machine.

2-horse race

Nigeria 2023: Will the election follow the 2019 poll pattern?

The 2019 presidential election in Nigeria was a two-horse race between President Muhammadu Buhari of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) ... and Atiku Abubakar of the People's Democratic Party.

Paul Kagame, the Rwandan president, in Kigali, January 17, 2023.

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Paul Kagame: ‘Congo leaders cannot make Rwanda the scapegoat’

M23 rebellion, a showdown with Félix Tshisekedi, criticism from the international community, reception of migrants, but also longevity in power ... and the Rwandan presidential election of 2024… An exclusive interview with Rwanda's president Paul Kagame.

RAINING BOMBS

Nigeria: Military tight-lipped after drone attack on pastoralists

The Nigerian military has declined to provide clarifications after its drones rained "bombs" on pastoralists herding their cattle home in the ... north-central state of Nasarawa.

VOLTE-FACE

Niger: Faced with users’ grumbling and regulator’s order, Airtel, Moov and Zamani drop prices

Niger's telecoms regulator has called on operators to lower their rates in the face of widespread grumbling over the introduction of floor prices. ... The situation is emblematic of the years of regulatory and fiscal inconsistency in this sector.

Shedding New Light

GridX Africa plans solar-power expansion in DRC, Kenya

East African corporate solar power supplier GridX Africa is expanding to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and plans to ramp up its presence ... in Kenya, CEO Chalker Kansteiner tells The Africa Report.

Stronger than ever

Russia – South Africa: Despite pressure to take sides, Ramaphosa welcomes Lavrov’s visit

Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov’s visit to South Africa kicks off a year rich in cooperation between Pretoria and Moscow, much to ... the chagrin of those who have wanted to isolate Russia ever since it invaded Ukraine.

last dance

Nigeria 2023: Tinubu receives major boost as court sacks dancing governor

A Nigerian court has sacked Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State nicknamed the ‘dancing governor’ and ordered that Gboyega Oyetola, an ... ally of frontline Presidential hopeful, Bola Tinubu, be inaugurated as governor. What could this mean for next month’s Presidential poll? And what role did new voting system BVAS play in the result?

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