Vol 65 No 8 | NIGERIA Abacha consigliere in storm over $11 billion superhighway linking Lagos and Calabar 5th April 2024 Minister confirms upfront payments to Hitech Construction on a no-bid contract for 'Africa's biggest road' The international rehabilitation of billionaire businessman Gilbert Chagoury had seemed complete. Convicted in Geneva for laundering money stolen by military leader Sani Abacha and in the United States...
Vol 65 No 8 | GUINEA The junta wants to claim Simandou's mega mine as its legacy 4th April 2024 The generals have corralled companies to start up the world's biggest iron ore mine next year after overcoming serial legal and financing obstacles After nearly three decades of delays and litigation, production at the giant Simandou iron ore reserves is to start early next year, say the main investors.
Vol 65 No 7 | SENEGAL Faye's victory shakes up the region 28th March 2024 In jail until ten days before the vote, a political outsider has been elected president on the first ballot As detailed results from around the country trickled in, Amadou Ba, former Prime Minister and standard bearer for the ruling Benno Bokk Yaakaar (BBY) alliance, could draw only... READ FOR FREE
Vol 65 No 7 | SENEGAL Team Anti-Système takes over the system 28th March 2024 President Faye will have to balance the expectations on job creation with reassurance for investors Withdraw from the French-backed Communauté Financière Africaine (CFA) monetary zone, restructure public debt and renegotiate the oil, gas and mining contracts – these are the policy imperatives that...
Vol 65 No 7 | SIERRA LEONE Court date for mine bosses 28th March 2024 Two former executives and a business consultant from collapsed Sierra Leone iron ore developer London Mining PLC are set to stand trial in London on charges of making...
Vol 65 No 7 | NIGERUNITED STATESIRANRUSSIA General Tiani swaps the US for Russia 27th March 2024 Annulling its defence agreements with Washington, the Niamey junta strengthens ties with Moscow and Tehran Severing military ties with the United States on 16 March, three months after France closed its embassy in Niamey, General Abdourahamane Tiani's Conseil national pour la sauvegarde de...
Vol 65 No 7 | SENEGAL Historic vote could set a new economic path 22nd March 2024 Radical nationalism is on the ballot as the establishment candidate is challenged by a new generation of opposition activists The presidential election on 24 March is the most important in Senegal's history offering voters a clear choice on economic policy at a time of heightened political tensions....
Vol 65 No 6 | NIGERIA Cost-of-living crisis forces government rethink 14th March 2024 Armed attacks and kidnappings, combined with food riots and looting, are putting President Tinubu and his inner circle under pressure The cost-of-living crisis is becoming the most serious political challenge facing President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's government a year after it was elected. Whether it is maladministration and corruption...
Vol 65 No 6 | MALI Book guts Goïta's junta 14th March 2024 Colonel Alpha Yaya Sangaré went from celebrated author to prisoner in one week. On 24 February, he presented his book, Mali, le défi du terrorisme en Afrique, (Mali:...
Vol 65 No 6 | SENEGAL Telescoping the campaign 14th March 2024 It is the shortest and most dramatic presidential election campaign to date in Senegal. It will be telescoped into less than two weeks after the Constitutional Council accepted...