Vol 66 No 9 | CAMEROON Security falls apart as Biya totters 25th April 2025 Focusing on fixing national elections in October, top officials are failing to respond to the insurgents targeting the regime The collapsing security system in Cameroon is seriously threatening 92-year-old President Paul Biya’s regime in what many in Yaoundé say is its twilight period. Determined to run for...
Vol 66 No 8 | CONGO-KINSHASAUNITED STATES Washington tries a new push in Kinshasa 18th April 2025 President Trump’s special advisor is testing transactional diplomacy amid the conflict and the continent’s biggest reserves of critical minerals Washington’s latest intervention in Kinshasa, led by Massad Fares Boulos, senior advisor to United States President Donald Trump, is disrupting the calculations of Congolese politicians and warlords. Boulos,... READ FOR FREE
Vol 66 No 8 | CONGO-KINSHASAUNITED STATES How Trump’s in-law shut down the Kinshasa lobbyists 18th April 2025 After meeting the US President’s senior Africa envoy, President Tshisekedi has blocked millions of dollars’ worth of consultancy deals After agreeing contracts with a string of K-Street lobby shops worth close to US$8 million with mandate to broker a mineral access deal with US President Donald Trump’s...
Vol 66 No 8 | GABON Oligui’s commanding win 18th April 2025 With 90.3% of the vote in the 12 April presidential election, on a 70.4% turnout, according to official provisional results, Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema begins his new seven-year...
Vol 66 No 8 | CAMEROON Biya’s grip in question ahead of the October elections 10th April 2025 Political insiders are circling as the 92-year-old leader is eclipsed by the ambitious secretary general Ngoh Ngoh Assuming he wins elections expected in October, by the end of his next term Cameroonian President Paul Biya will be 99 years old. He would have ruled the...
Vol 66 No 7 | GABON Oligui in, Yama excluded 4th April 2025 With trade unionist Jean-Rémy Yama disqualified from the 12 April first presidential ballot due to his inability to produce his father’s birth certificate, defeat for Brice Clotaire Oligui...
Vol 66 No 7 | CHADSUDANUNITED ARAB EMIRATES Mahamat Kaka is caught between Khartoum’s anger and Emirati cash 2nd April 2025 Commissioned by the UAE to ship arms to the RSF militia in Darfur, Ndjamena is threatened by its eastern neighbour After expelling the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) from Khartoum in late March, the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) commander General Abdel Fattah al Burhan is now focusing on the...
Vol 66 No 6 | CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLICRUSSIA Moscow’s prisoner 21st March 2025 Belgian-Portuguese national Joseph Figueira Martin has been all but abandoned, banged up for 10 months in a Bangui military camp in the Central African Republic, awaiting trial on...
Vol 66 No 6 | ANGOLARWANDACONGO-KINSHASA Kigali and the M23 militia clear a path for regime change 20th March 2025 The collapse of negotiations offers some stark choices as President Tshisekedi’s position weakens further A week of diplomatic spats and foiled negotiations has handed more political weight to the M23 militia and its Rwandan backers to add to their string of victories... READ FOR FREE
Vol 66 No 6 | RWANDACONGO-KINSHASAEUROPEAN UNION M23 militia blocks peace talks until Brussels drops sanctions 19th March 2025 The proliferation of negotiations in the Kinshasa-Kigali war is derailing the prospect for a ceasefire Its commanders and some of its key allies in the Rwandan government were sanctioned by the European Union on 17 March but it has been another good week...