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A highly contested president

Niger: Bazoum to be sworn in as president just after ‘attempted coup’

On the night of 30 to 31 March, residents of Niamey’s presidential district were awakened by gunfire. ...

Returning home at last

Côte d’Ivoire: Former President Laurent Gbagbo is acquitted on appeal

The ICC Appeals Chamber has confirmed the acquittal of Laurent Gbagbo and Charles Blé Goudé, pronounced at first instance on 15 January 2019. ... The decision means that Cote d’Ivoire’s former president will be allowed to return home.

FRAIL GENIUS

Uganda: Mutebile, central bank governor for 20 years, gets another term

Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile, Governor of the Bank of Uganda since 2001, has been reapproved by parliament for another five-year term. Seen as ... physically frail albeit mentally strong, many wonder what is really behind his reappointment.

Residents watch as municipal police demolish illegal structures during a nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Harare

political pawns

Zimbabwe’s illegal urban settlements: A blessing or curse for government?

In Zimbabwe, over 20,000 families are facing displacement from urban areas following a crackdown on land barons by President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s ... government. Many of these residential settlements were created under Mugabe, when the ruling party Zanu-PF used land in urban areas to lure voters.

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Cosying up to the US

Egypt / US: It will take more than glossy propaganda to win over the Biden administration

STARVATION CRIME

Ethiopia: Looming famine in Tigray is the making of ‘starvation crimes’ says report by WPF

kora for the 21st century

Mali: Ballaké Sissoko, the kora’s discreet champion

Cosying up to the US

Egypt / US: It will take more than glossy propaganda to win over the Biden administration

STARVATION CRIME

Ethiopia: Looming famine in Tigray is the making of ‘starvation crimes’ says report by WPF

kora for the 21st century

Mali: Ballaké Sissoko, the kora’s discreet champion

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night nurse

Nigeria: Buhari heads to UK for medical treatment as doctors strike erupts at home

As Nigeria faces down a coronavirus pandemic, and doctors launch a national strike to protest against working conditions and salary arrears, ... the President has left the country to seek medical assistance in the United Kingdom. An irony that has not gone unnoticed. Buhari has now spent 170 days abroad for treatment during his presidency.

soldier on

Algeria: Hirak carries on with protests, despite internal divisions

Algeria’s grassroots protest movement, known as Hirak, has not petered out, but it has been struggling to find new ways to articulate its message ... and structure itself. Meanwhile, ideological discord has taken root.

Great Mediator in the making?

Egypt / Sudan/ Ethiopia: Will Tshisekedi calm the waters in the GERD dispute?

DRC’s President Félix Tshisekedi, who took over the chairmanship of the African Union in February, is to host a first round of dialogue between ... Cairo, Khartoum and Addis Ababa over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam dispute.

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Nigeria’s Obiageli Ezekwesili: ‘We became a country, not a nation’

Transparency and justice have been her banners over a long and varied career. Now Obiageli Ezekwesili has founded a school to form the political ... leaders of tomorrow and to turn the rage in the street into reform in the corridors of power.

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Egypt: Transparency International wants to reopen case into Mubarak assets

Although the European Council decided to unfreeze the assets of the Egypt's former President Hosni Mubarak's family on 12 March, the NGO Transparency ... International is pushing to reopen the case.

under pressure

Angola: Isabel dos Santos accuses President Lourenço of ‘carrying out a plot’ to seize her assets

Tension between Isabel dos Santos and the Angolan presidency is intensifying. She has President João Lourenço of carrying out “a plot” ... to illegally seize her assets.

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