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 in as the new Prime...
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 eight seats and...
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...
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...