After much delay President Ernest Bai Koroma has finally found a candidate he favours to take the nomination of the All Peoples Congress for the 2018 presidential election. In mid-October he named Samura Kamara his Foreign Minister. Koroma's two preside
3rd Nov 2017

Such is the commanding lead built up by George Weah the star footballer turned politician in the first round of presidential elections on 10 October that his nearest rival Vice-President Joseph Nyumah Boakai will struggle to bring together enough vote
20th Oct 2017

Although the election to find a successor for President Ernest Bai Koroma takes place on 7 March next year the country's two leading parties are yet to select their candidates. Many blame Koroma for the inertia. He is chairman and leader of the governing
8th Sep 2017

Freetown politicians Western embassies and property speculators face some tough questions about responsibility for the Mount Sugar Loaf landslide on 14 August in which more than 500 died and another 600 are missing. Over 10 000 people have been forced f
25th Aug 2017

One of the custodians of ex-President Blaise Compaoré's deepest and most dangerous secrets is no more. Salif Diallo a consummate political operator who reinvented himself for the post-Compaoré age died unexpectedly at the age on 60 on 19 August in Paris
25th Aug 2017

A supporter of Sudan's President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir in London has angered survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire. The 14 June blaze claimed at least 80 lives including people from Egypt Ethiopia Sierra Leone and Sudan. Ibrahim Ali el Nur a foun
21st Jul 2017

Israel is working harder on improving relations in Africa than at any time since its 1970s' diplomatic push which was designed to isolate its Arab enemies. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's charm offensive began after December's United Nations Security
23rd Jun 2017

Headed by an Anglophone former Prime Minister Peter Mafany Musonge the National Commission for the Promotion of Bilingualism and Multiculturalism which President Paul Biya ordered in January is beginning work (AC Vol 37 No 22 Election enterprise). It
26th May 2017

When nursing assistant Salome Karwah an Ebola fever survivor who had appeared on the cover of America's Time Magazine as a Person of the Year in 2014 died after giving birth this February in Monrovia it was front-page news. Time lamented that Karwah ha
14th Apr 2017

The involvement of the maverick businessman Vasile Frank Timis in Senegal's oil industry and his cosy relationship with President Macky Sall's government has attracted renewed interest from international investigators and delayed a promised licensing roun
31st Mar 2017