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© Supporters hold a banner bearing a portrait of the President of the Opposition Collaborating Parties (CPP), Alexander Cummings, during a rally against poor living conditions.(Photo by Emmanuel Tobey/AFP)

shifting alliances

Premium badgeLiberia’s opposition enters into alliances ahead of elections Liberia’s opposition has currently turned to cementing coalitions and alliances in a bid to win in the upcoming October 2023 elections. This push for ...
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failed networks

Premium badgeCamtel, Orange, MTN, Nexttel… Cameroon’s telecoms watchdog doles out fines For the first time since 2019, the regulatory agency has imposed a fine – totalling $9.7m – on Cameroon’s three main telecoms providers.
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More or less borrowing?

Premium badgeFive questions on Kenya’s new debt policy As Kenya prepares to table the final budget for the upcoming fiscal year beginning next July, there are adjacent hasty plans to get parliament to chan...
© Some of the Benin bronzes stolen by the British from the Kingdom of Benin in 1897, on display at the British Museum. (Photo:Joy of museums/Wikimedia commons)

Oba ownership

Premium badgeNigeria: Do Benin Bronzes belong to Oba kingdom or the people? The Oba of Benin is the rightful owner of the Benin Bronzes, according to an official gazette signed by then-president Muhammadu Buhari on 28 March. T...
© A general view of solar power panels is seen at the Atlantic Shrimp farm in Badagry, Lagos, Nigeria July 5, 2022. REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja

New Dawn?

Premium badgeNigeria: Tinubu policy shift can prompt solar-power breakthrough Nigeria’s new President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has the chance to drive forward the country’s adoption of solar power, WATT Renewable CEO Oluwole Eweje tell...
Mohamed Bazoum, President of Niger, in his office in Niamey, during an interview with Jeune Afrique on 1 May 2023. © Vincent Fournier pour JA

tough talk

Premium badgeNiger’s Mohamed Bazoum: ‘Arming civilians to fight terrorists is a tragic mistake.’ Mali, Burkina Faso, anti-French sentiment, Wagner, democracy, corruption…Niger’s President Mohamed Bazoum speaks has no qualms about speaking his mind...
© Ethiopian immigrants returning from Saudi Arabia arrive at Addis Ababa’s Bole International Airport, 2013. (AFP/Jenny Vaughan)

human rights?

Premium badgeEthiopia: New scheme to export maids to Saudi Arabia after ban due to rights abuses lifted Ethiopia has started a scheme to send 500,000 house maids to Saudi Arabia, swallowing its concerns over human rights abuses in a bid to tackle depress...

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© Ghanaian military personnel train shooting during the annual counter-terrorism program called “Operation Flintlock”, in Daboya, Ghana March 2, 2023. REUTERS/Francis Kokoroko

mending relationships

Premium badgeIs Ghana warming up to the Sahel again after diplomatic rift? Ghana President Nana Akufo-Addo has sent emissaries led by his national security chief Albert Kan-Dapaah to Ouagadougou and Bamako and followed up wit...
Nigeria-Politics-Corruption-Trial © A taxi motorcyclist ride past signpost of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Lagos, on October 3, 2016. A Nigerian court has convicted four firms allegedly used by a former aide of ex-president Goodluck Jonathan to launder $15.5 million in suspected stolen funds. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had in July frozen the accounts of the companies and seized $15.5 million (14 million euros) while investigating Waripamo-Owei Dudafa, Jonathan’s former domestic assistant, over money laundering. AFP PHOTO/PIUS UTOMI EKPEI

big fish escape net

Premium badgeNigeria: Can EFCC anti-graft agency continue its run under Tinubu?  Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission under the leadership of Abdulrasheed Bawa has seen rising success in tackling crime, hitting a peak...
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi addresses the representatives of syndicates, political forces, and NGOs, via video conference during the inaugural meeting of the National Dialogue in Cairo on May 3, 2023. – After months of dragging its feet, Egypt finally launched its ‘national dialogue’, unleashing in tandem a wave of repression against dissidents, football fans and supporters of a lone opposition presidential candidate, rights defenders say.

open door

Premium badgeEgypt ‘national dialogue’ kicks off with wave of arrests One month into a much-touted programme to heal the country’s deep political rifts, Egyptian authorities have arrested dozens of dissidents, opposition...

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© Ghanaian military personnel train shooting during the annual counter-terrorism program called “Operation Flintlock”, in Daboya, Ghana March 2, 2023. REUTERS/Francis Kokoroko

mending relationships

Premium badgeIs Ghana warming up to the Sahel again after diplomatic rift? Ghana President Nana Akufo-Addo has sent emissaries led by his national security chief Albert Kan-Dapaah to Ouagadougou and Bamako and followed up wit...
Nigeria-Politics-Corruption-Trial © A taxi motorcyclist ride past signpost of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Lagos, on October 3, 2016. A Nigerian court has convicted four firms allegedly used by a former aide of ex-president Goodluck Jonathan to launder $15.5 million in suspected stolen funds. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had in July frozen the accounts of the companies and seized $15.5 million (14 million euros) while investigating Waripamo-Owei Dudafa, Jonathan’s former domestic assistant, over money laundering. AFP PHOTO/PIUS UTOMI EKPEI

big fish escape net

Premium badgeNigeria: Can EFCC anti-graft agency continue its run under Tinubu?  Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission under the leadership of Abdulrasheed Bawa has seen rising success in tackling crime, hitting a peak...
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi addresses the representatives of syndicates, political forces, and NGOs, via video conference during the inaugural meeting of the National Dialogue in Cairo on May 3, 2023. – After months of dragging its feet, Egypt finally launched its ‘national dialogue’, unleashing in tandem a wave of repression against dissidents, football fans and supporters of a lone opposition presidential candidate, rights defenders say.

open door

Premium badgeEgypt ‘national dialogue’ kicks off with wave of arrests One month into a much-touted programme to heal the country’s deep political rifts, Egyptian authorities have arrested dozens of dissidents, opposition...

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Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu waves to a crowd as he takes the traditional ride on top of a ceremonial vehicle after his swearing-in ceremony in Abuja

post-election hangover

Nigeria: Can Tinubu pleasantly surprise his critics? Will President Bola Tinubu act on a better version of himself than his opposition fears he is? Or are concerns justified that he is not the people’s b...
© Lai Mohammed on July 1, 2022 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by OMER MESSINGER / GETTY IMAGES EUROPE / Getty Images via AFP)

PRESIDENTIAL WHISPERER

Premium badgeNigeria’s opposition should abandon bid to overturn Tinubu’s election, says Lai Mohammed Speaking to ‘The Africa Report’ in the run-up to the inauguration of Bola Ahmed Tinubu this week, outgoing information minister Lai Mohammed has dismi...
© Kenya’s President William Ruto (photo: @WilliamsRuto)

Dissenting voices

Kenya: Rebellion rocks ruling party over mandatory housing levy One resignation and open defiance by some ruling United Democratic Alliance (UDA) party MPs show cracks in President William Ruto’s proposal to increa...
Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno (centre) in N’Djamena, 20 August 2022. ©Chadian Presidency

campaign promise

Premium badgeChad, Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno and the 600 generals The Chadian army may have a reputation for efficiency, but it is the main pillar of the president’s power. Here, we delve into the heart of a system t...
© The Electricity Company of Ghana is disconnecting offices that are behind in paying their electricity bill. (Photo: @ECGghOfficial)

No mercy

Premium badgeGhana: More deaths feared as power cut hits hospitals over non-payment An attempt by an electricity firm in Ghana to recover debt from customers including state-run hospitals by cutting power has resulted in the death of ...

seeking shelter

Premium badgeBy 2050, one in two climate migrants will be African, study shows In 2022, climate-related disasters caused an additional 7.4 million internally displaced people in sub-Saharan Africa; a record number that could cont...
© Higher coal prices create greater scope for renewable energy projects, Standard Bank says. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko

Load Sharing

Premium badgeSouth Africa: Standard Bank, Liberty, Old Mutual’s AIIM to lift renewable investments South Africa’s financial sector is moving to accelerate investment in renewables as coal-reliant national utility Eskom remains unable to ensure a rel...
© File photo of a Turkana warrior with cattle approaching a settlement in Ilemi Triangle, Kenya (REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic)

CENTURY-OLD PROBLEM

Premium badgeUganda – Kenya: Museveni gets tough on ngiTurkana rustlers Always positioning himself as a pan-Africanist, Uganda President Yoweri Museveni has been reluctant to take a tough stance against neighbouring countr...
© Zimbabwe Vice President and Health Minister General Constantino Chiwenga, who recently passed a controversial procurement bill in President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s absence. (REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo)

party struggle

Premium badgeZimbabwe: President Mnangagwa bows to pressure, rescinds controversial procurement law Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has distanced himself from a new law meant to conceal how taxpayers’ money is used to procure assets and equip...
© Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa speaks during a handover ceremony where he received medical emergency and police helicopters from Sergey Chemezov the Director General of the Russian State Corporation “Rostec” at the Robert Mugabe International Airport in Harare on May 18, 2023. (Photo by Jekesai NJIKIZANA / AFP)

sabotage claims

Premium badgeZimbabwe: Mnangagwa blames business for currency chaos President Mnangagwa has blamed the recent local currency devaluation on businesses taking advantage of cheap foreign currency and sabotaging the gover...
© Sami Mainich (photo: supplied)

‘Africa led by Africans’

Premium badgeDow’s Sami Mainich places trust in African talents Since being appointed president of Dow’s Africa operations in late February, Sami Mainich has been on the lookout for partnership opportunities across...

drawn-out battle

Premium badgeNigeria Air fuels stand-off between Hadi Sirika, Allen Onyema A surprise announcement of Nigeria Air’s demonstration flight by Hadi Sirika, Nigeria’s aviation minister who served under ex-president Muhammadu Buha...
© A Galamseyer, an illegal gold panner, washes the soil to check as he looks for speck of gold, in Kibi area, southern Ghana on April 11, 2017. (Photo by CRISTINA ALDEHUELA / AFP)

ease pressure

Premium badgeGhana: Gold-for-oil project to alleviate hardships, says PMMC boss Nana Akwasi Awuah, CEO of Ghana’s Precious Minerals and Marketing Company (PMMC) says the recent decline in the price of fuel is as a result of the G4...