Vol 60 No 10 | SÃO TOMÉ & PRÍNCIPE Graft, or statescraft? 17th May 2019 The detention of an ex-finance minister on corruption charges looks more like a ruse to keep his former boss in exile While dethroned Prime Minister Patrice Trovoada was able to leave São Tomé for his luxury home in Lisbon after losing power, one of his most prominent ministers has n...
Vol 59 No 24 | SÃO TOMÉ & PRÍNCIPE End for Trovoada 7th December 2018 On 3 December, Jorge Bom Jesus, the leader of the Movimento de Libertação de São Tomé e Príncipe/Partido Social Democrata (MLSTP/PSD), was sworn ...
Vol 59 No 21 | SÃO TOMÉ & PRÍNCIPE Poll blow for Trovoada 26th October 2018 Prime Minister Patrice Trovoada and his ruling Acção Democrática Independente (ADI) emerged from the elections of 7 October as the biggest party, but they lost...
Vol 59 No 17 | SÃO TOMÉ & PRÍNCIPE Whose coup is it anyway? 31st August 2018 The government has foiled a plot to kill Prime Minister Patrice Trovoada and kidnap President Evaristo Carvalho and the National Assembly President José Diogo, it claimed on 7 Augu...
Vol 59 No 12 | SÃO TOMÉ & PRÍNCIPE A toxic brew 15th June 2018 Arguments over a beer company have opened dangerous divisions in the elite while the ruling party plays fast and loose with the constitution One of the few working industrial facilities in São Tomé e Príncipe, the Rosema brewery, is the locus of a vicious political dispute pitting one part of the po...
Vol 58 No 17 | SÃO TOMÉ & PRÍNCIPE Trovoada's Chinese gamble 25th August 2017 The country's leaders hope their switch in support from Taiwan to mainland China will trigger an avalanche of cash and investment Patrice Trovoada is a confident man these days. The Gabonese-born Prime Minister of São Tomé e Príncipe jokes, in private, about Donald Trump's slim chances of re-election as Unite...
Vol 58 No 6 | SÃO TOMÉ & PRÍNCIPE Broken China 17th March 2017 Urbino Botelho, Foreign Minister of São Tomé and Príncipe, has made his bid for posterity by breaking off diplomatic relations with Taiwan and restoring relations with the People's...
Vol 57 No 16 | SÃO TOMÉ & PRÍNCIPE Run-off wrangle 5th August 2016 For the first time since the country's democratic transition in 1991, the losers of an election have claimed the vote was rigged and refuse to recognise the official results. The s...
Vol 57 No 15 | SÃO TOMÉ & PRÍNCIPE Trovoada's triumph 22nd July 2016 The first-round victory of Evaristo Carvalho, 74, candidate of the ruling Acção Democrática Independente (ADI) in the presidential election came as a surprise to most observers. He...
Vol 55 No 22 | SÃO TOMÉ & PRÍNCIPE Trovoada's return 7th November 2014 Former Prime Minister Patrice Trovoada has crowned an unlikely comeback with an emphatic victory in the 12 October legislative elections. One thing hasn't changed, however: his str...