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Diomaye Faye asks the people for a bigger mandate

The president’s coalition should get a parliamentary majority in November’s snap election but he needs over 60% to drive through his reform plans

Two months from now millions of Senegalese voters are due to return to the polling stations, following the dissolution of the national assembly by President Bassirou Diomaye Faye,...


Africa Confidential prompts probe of business school scheme

The Anti-Corruption Commission has opened an investigation into Africa Confidential’s report on the failed campus project as public anger grows

Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) announced on 27 August that ‘after a careful review of’ Africa Confidential’s special report on how the University of Sierra Leone (USL) lost...

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Dangote and Tinubu wrestle over the future of oil

The vested interests of the political class are driving the public fight over a US$20 billion refinery and may determine its fate

The threat of more mass protests and the spiralling cost of petrol, over 1,000 naira (62 US cents) a litre in parts of Nigeria, have played to Aliko...


Faye mulls a snap parliamentary poll

Differences between the president’s measured style and that of his fiery prime minister may complicate national politics and regional diplomacy

Dakar political life is slowing down in August giving President Bassirou Diomaye Faye some time to weigh up whether to dissolve the National Assembly in September and call...


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Farewell to the kora master

Toumani Diabaté, one of Mali’s greatest kora players, died on 19 July ending a career spanning 45 years. He was 58. His global reputation debuted with the release...


Central bank fights to slow inflation and protect its independence

Within a year bank governor Yemi Cardoso has won a reputation for competence – despite the government’s mounting economic woes and dislike of accountability

As spiralling prices hit a 30-year high and the weakening naira triggers another round of protests and strikes due to start on 1 August, the Central Bank of...


Coming soon – a month of rage

The government announces a $1 billion anti-poverty programme and monitors activists as its tries to pre-empt Kenya-style protests

Sitting atop a 120-foot telecommunications mast in Abuja and threatening to jump, unemployed labourer Shuaibu Yushau refused to come down until the government addressed the economic hardship, insecurity...


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