Vol 64 No 6 | GHANA Khaki vigilantes 16th March 2023 The Ghana Armed Forces have come under fierce public criticism following an apparent vigilante operation they conducted at Ashaiman, a densely populated town near Tema, in the Greater...
Vol 64 No 6 | GHANA Fights over debt and public spending are shaping the election campaign 13th March 2023 The opposition is revelling in criticisms of the government's economic management by the Auditor-General, who is in the spotlight again In a rowdy session in parliament on 8 March, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo used his state of the nation address to explain how the government planned to...
Vol 64 No 5 | NIGERIA Tinubu's last trick: from godfather to Kabiyesi 2nd March 2023 Opposition contenders question the ruling party candidate's victory in elections marred by technical failures, sporadic violence and a historically low turnout The next act of Nigeria's presidential election drama has started with fire and fury. At one end of the stage stands the official winner, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, whose...
Vol 64 No 5 | LIBERIA Weah stays in pole position 2nd March 2023 The controversial president has a poor governing record, but no candidate looks strong enough to defeat him in October’s poll The temperature is rising fast in the run-up to Liberia's parliamentary and presidential election in October. Last month, President George Weah used the occasion of his sixth annual...
Vol 64 No 5 | NIGERIA Court tells HYPREP to come clean 2nd March 2023 A Federal High Court in Nigeria has ordered the government's flagship environmental remediation agency to stop work and publish its accounts.
Vol 64 No 5 | SÃO TOMÉ & PRÍNCIPE A vendetta that went wrong 2nd March 2023 A botched attempt at revenge was the conclusion of São Tomé's Public Prosecutor following its investigation of the failed assault of the military barracks of 25 November.
Vol 64 No 5 | MALI A junta that's going nowhere 27th February 2023 The five ruling colonels are digging in for a long stay – but neither Wagner's mercenaries nor the army are stemming the jihadist tide The military junta is making itself comfortable. That much was clear on 21 February when the National Transitional Council (NTC), a hastily convened rubber-stamp parliament of 120 placemen...
Vol 64 No 5 | NIGERIA A high turnout will shake up national politics 24th February 2023 Peter Obi easily wins the opinion polls but the elections on the ground are still wide open If many of the local and international opinion polls on Nigeria's presidential elections on 25 February prove accurate, then Peter Obi, the multi-millionaire banker standing on the Labour...
Vol 64 No 4 | NIGERIA The naira republic's banknote crisis hurts (almost) everyone 16th February 2023 Campaigners for the ruling party's presidential candidate accuse the central bank of sabotage days ahead of the election A desperate scarcity of banknotes and fuel are adding a final note of drama to what looks like the most open election ever in Nigeria. Whatever the merits... READ FOR FREE
Vol 64 No 4 | NIGERIA Shell takes hard line on oil-spill case 16th February 2023 The latest round of litigation on pollution in the Niger Delta sees Shell digging in its heels and denying any legal responsibility The London-based law firm Leigh Day is pushing ahead with a case in the London High Court on behalf of members of the Ogale and Bille communities in...