With economic growth failing to keep pace with population growth and the country far too dependent on oil and gas exports President Muhammadu Buhari is trying to deal with critical shortages of revenues and fast-growing debt obligations. A sign of how b
7th Nov 2019

Ever since BBC television's Panorama current affairs programme revealed apparent evidence that controversial British-based Australian/Romanian businessman Vasile Frank Timis made massive payments to President Macky Sall's brother Aliou Sall the political
14th Jun 2019

BP has cemented its interest in the Senegal basin by sweeping up two disputed oil blocks off the coast of Gambia previously held by Norway-listed Africa Petroleum as a raft of increasingly positive exploration results ramps up interest in the region among
17th May 2019

A much-anticipated 'Save the State' protest which is scheduled for 7 June seems to be gaining momentum as citizens challenge President George Weah and his government on critical national issues. 'We are not demanding the President to step down but we w
17th May 2019

Although President Julius Maada Bio was an enthusiast for Chinese investment in infrastructure at the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation last September the government has cooled on some major projects the latest of which is a plan to expand Freetown port
5th Apr 2019

The revelations pouring out of three judicial commissions of inquiry into public corruption under former President Ernest Bai Koroma have the country agog (AC Vol 59 No 13 Koroma accused of grand corruption & Vol 59 No 14 Corruption inquiry takes of
5th Apr 2019

If everything goes to plan and on schedule South Sudan should finally turn the corner in 2019 and take its rightful place among the community of African states that have recovered from the traumas of independence struggles and civil war. The optimism is
11th Jan 2019

The Chinese government is putting pressure on President Julius Maada Bio to go ahead with a project to link Lungi International Airport which lies on the other side of Tagrin Bay by bridge to the capital Freetown say political insiders in Sierra Leone
9th Nov 2018

President George Weah's carefully choreographed image as a champion of the slum poor which got him elected with an overwhelming majority in December 2017 is unlikely to survive a slew of allegations some of them self-inflicted. The latest and most crit
12th Oct 2018

Determined to make his mark early President Julius Maada Bio has promised a revolution in transport in education and in tackling corruption. As well as promising a US$1.3 billion bridge to link Freetown to Lungi international airport he is bent on free
28th Sep 2018