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accidental president

Life after power: Nigeria’s Goodluck Jonathan gets a second chance

Retired Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan may seem a surprising choice for UN Special Envoy on Crisis Management given his lassitude over ... the Chibok girls crisis.

why now?

South Africa: US Gupta sanctions are a bulwark for Ramaphosa

The US treasury's decision to sanction the Gupta family and associates has political as well as economic ramifications. ...

investigation

Angola: Where did all the money go? Part 2, the parallel economy

Angola's state oil company Sonangol became central to economic life, and to the articulation of state power. ...

Monday, 21 October 2019

real revolution

Algeria: Abdallah Djaballah – ‘military likely to postpone elections’

Abdallah Djaballah, leader of the Algerian Islamist party FJD-Adala, has announced his party will not present a candidate in the presidential ... election on 12 December. He believes the protest movement can gain ground without the use of violence and civil disobedience.

investigation

Angola: Where did all the money go? Part 1, a family feast.

At the end of the devastating civil war, in 2002, Angolans had the chance to rebuild their broken country using its bountiful resources of oil, ... gas and diamonds.

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justice delayed

Cameroon must move beyond dialogue to solve Anglophone crisis

President Paul Biya convened a national dialogue last month to address the conflict between his government and the people in Cameroon’s English-speaking ... regions in the North West and South West.

Saturday, 19 October 2019

THIRD WAY

A centrist political alliance in South Africa? Yes, but hard to get

Is there the possibility that political centrists in South Africa’s governing party, the African National Congress (ANC), and its main opposition ... party, the Democratic Alliance (DA), could merge?

Friday, 18 October 2019

chair fight

DRC: opposition at loggerheads over parliamentary posts

The opposition groups of Moïse Katumbi and Jean-Pierre Bemba have called on their leaders to resolve an internal dispute. ...

hard choices

Liberalism in South Africa isn’t only for white people – or black people who want to be white

Liberalism is meant to be about freedom for all individuals, regardless of race. But linking liberalism to whiteness as is happening now is not ... new in South Africa. Most activists who fought for black freedom dismissed liberalism as a white ideology designed to tame black people, not to free them.

Wednesday, 16 October 2019

waiting for justice

Burkina Faso: Sankara family lawyers push for Compaoré’s extradition

Lawyers for the family of Thomas Sankara, the father of the Burkinabe revolution who was killed in the October 1987 coup d'état, say want former ... president Blaise Compaoré to face trial, voluntarily or by force.

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