Vol 65 No 3 | GHANA Cash flows in but debt talks drag on 1st February 2024 The treasury has received $600 million in vital IMF funds but doubts persist on a deal with creditors before election campaigning starts At the start of a crucial election year, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's embattled government has some reasons to be cheerful following confirmation on 12 January by the...
Vol 65 No 3 | SENEGAL A crowded field 1st February 2024 Now definitively excluded from the presidential race, the imprisoned Ousmane Sonko waits to learn whether his stand-in, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, will be allowed out of jail to campaign...
Vol 65 No 3 | NIGERIASIERRA LEONEECOWAS Anatomy of a failed coup in Freetown 29th January 2024 A band of gunmen hoped to become Africa's newest junta and couldn't muster support, but questions about the role of ex-President Koroma abound Ex-President Ernest Bai Koroma's release for 'medical treatment' in Nigeria and the backroom deal that brought it about has enraged many of President Julius Maada Bio's supporters. Controversy...
Vol 65 No 3 | NIGERIA Shell leads oil majors' exit from the Niger Delta 26th January 2024 Companies accused of under-investment – arrangements on financing and liability for pollution may be contested When the British oil major Shell announced on 16 January that it would be selling its interests in 18 oil licences in shallow water and onshore Niger Delta...
Vol 65 No 2 | GHANA Ofori-Atta claims big win 18th January 2024 Confirmation on 17 January of a deal between Ghana and its official bilateral creditors (Paris Club and China) to restructure payments owed on US$5.4 billion of debt, is...
Vol 65 No 2 | NIGERIA Abductions prompt security alert 18th January 2024 The reported deaths of Nabeeha Al-Kadriyar, who was kidnapped along with 22 others in the Bwari Area of Abuja, and 13-year-old Folasade Ariyo, who was abducted alongside eleven...
Vol 65 No 2 | SÃO TOMÉ & PRÍNCIPE Petrobras invests in oil sector 18th January 2024 Following the signature of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on joint business opportunities in the upstream with Shell in March 2023, on 27 December Brazil's state-controlled oil company...
Vol 65 No 2 | SIERRA LEONE Ex-President Koroma faces treason charges as crisis deepens 10th January 2024 The dispute over last year's elections has escalated as the former President prepares for a treason trial Political tensions are mounting in Freetown after the secret plan to allow Sierra Leone's former President, Ernest Bai Koroma to go into exile in Nigeria and drop the...
Vol 65 No 1 | NIGERIAAFRICA IN 2024 Tinubu risks overplaying his hand 4th January 2024 Career-politician President Tinubu's espousal of business-friendly economics could cost him support this year As the President's lengthy convoy snaked its way through the bustling streets of Isale-Eko (Lagos Island), where he was to attend the last Friday prayers of the year...
Vol 65 No 1 | GHANAAFRICA IN 2024 The economy will tilt the election 4th January 2024 The ruling party's best chance of hanging on to the presidency is to engineer a boom, but that's easier said than done On 7 December, Ghanaians are due to elect a successor to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in what is shaping up to...