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Elections: Ghana declares President John Mahama winner Ghana’s interim President John Dramani Mahama has been declared winner of the weekend presidential elections after garnering 50.7 percent of the vote.

Ghana elections: The big questions as last minute results come in As Ghana awaits the official results of Friday’s presidential election, The Africa Report’s editor-in-chief Patrick Smith reports from the capital Acc...

Biometric problems add to Ghana election bottleknecks On the road to Cape Coast, Patrick Smith reports on election day in Ghana as troubles with some of the new biometric voting machines added to long que...

Congo talks with M23 set to resume in Uganda Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) government officials and representatives of the rebel M23 group were on Friday preparing to resume talks in Uganda’...

Large turn out as Ghana presidential polls open A large turnout was recorded at polling stations across Ghana when voting began at 7 AM on Friday in crucial presidential and parliamentary elections.

Accra sways to the beat of final election rallies Billie McTernan blogs from Accra ahead of the first round of voting in Ghana’s presidential election

African Angles: Ali Mazrui on Syria, Turkey and the Gulf The increasingly assertive Turkish diplomacy first seen during the Egyptian revolution has been matched by Gulf money, says Kenyan academic Ali Mazrui

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Premium badgeUS companies ‘willing to make more investments’ in Nigeria The US Deputy Secretary of Treasury, Wally Adeyemo, pointed to unstable naira and corruption as some of the issues impeding Nigeria’s economic growth....

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School resumption in Nigeria amid the coronavirus-disease (COVID-19) outbreak © Students in Abuja, Nigeria, January 18, 2021. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

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Premium badgeNigeria: OmniIndex plans nationwide roll-out of Blockchain education data storage California-based OmniIndex aims to use its Google partnership to roll out Blockchain for educational data across Nigeria and Africa.
According to Kristalina Georgieva (shown here at the Spring Meetings, April 2023), head of the IMF, 15% of low-income countries are already in a debt crisis and 40% are getting closer to it. MANDEL NGAN/AFP.

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Premium badgeExplainer: How (un)sustainable Africa’s sovereign debt is Sovereign debt can be a powerful lever for economic development, provided it is used wisely. How do African countries manage to convince creditors?
FILE PHOTO: U.S. Treasury Department Deputy Secretary Wally Adeyemo attends the Reuters NEXT Newsmaker event in New York City, New York, U.S., December 1, 2022. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

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Premium badgeUS companies ‘willing to make more investments’ in Nigeria The US Deputy Secretary of Treasury, Wally Adeyemo, pointed to unstable naira and corruption as some of the issues impeding Nigeria’s economic growth....

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Little change in China-Africa relations likely under Jinping How will Africa’s interest be bargained under China’s new leadership, asks Konye Obaji Ori.

Who will take Ghana’s swing states? As Ghana prepares for the first round of elections tomorrow, 7 December, The Africa Report’s editorial assistant Billie McTernan blogs from Accra abou...

Five tasks for Ghana’s incoming president As the first round of Ghana’s elections begin on 7 December, Franklin Cudjoe, executive director of Ghana’s IMANI Centre for Policy and Education, set...

Akufo-Addo and Mahama neck-a-neck in Ghana elections The finish line is in sight: this Friday 7 December Ghanaians will vote in presidential and parliamentary elections after a rollercoaster campaign. Bi...

ANC leadership conference expected to endorse Zuma South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) says it is more than ready for its crucial national congress taking place in less than a fortnig...

Mali: the fight for the north An exclusive report from the city of Mopti ahead of the international military intervention that hopes to push out Islamist rebels from northern Mali ...

Mugabe rival threatens to withdraw from Zimbabwe constitution process Zimbabwe’s new constitution-making exercise is heading for another stalemate after one of the parties in the coalition government threatened to pull o...

Should Africa dream of feeding Asia? As demand for arable land in China goes up, Asian investors are buying up land in Africa on the cheap. We ask two experts whether African governments ...

For a Violence-Free Election in Ghana As has become the tradition with elections in mostly less predictable developing countries, prayer is not just the key to assuage our fears, it has be...

Nigeria President Goodluck Jonathan tackles terrorism Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan says his government is now able to deal with terror attacks, with claims that it has foiled 70 percent of terror...

Democracy brewed in an African pot As Ghanaians prepare to go to the polls, the whole country is awash with political party paraphernalia underscoring a grassroots appreciation of polit...

Kismayo’s Sheikh Ahmed Mohamed Islam ‘Madobe After a year of attacking Al-Shabaab strongholds in Somalia with his Ras Kamboni Brigade and Kenyan support, Madobe now holds the keys to the Kismayo....

Armed refugees in South Sudan cause scare Displaced people living in some camps in South Sudan say they feel insecure because some fellow refugees are armed.