The temperature of the presidential election campaign which is due in August has risen by several degrees this month after squabbles erupted in the ruling Parti démocratique gabonais. President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba started the fight by declaring on 29
1st Apr 2016

President Denis Sassou-Nguesso arranged for his re-election with considerably less self-confidence than he had shown in previous electoral contests. The campaign was marked by security forces killing 18 protestors and using tear-gas arresting foreign jou
1st Apr 2016

Nobody doubts that Sub-Saharan Africa needs heavy investment in public infrastructure. 'An acute infrastructure deficit is evident especially in energy and roads.' So warned the World Bank's Economic Prospects report at the beginning of this year. Yet it
18th Dec 2015

The Tshisekedi clan has done it again. Félix Antoine Tshisekedi son of Etienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba the octogenarian leader of the opposition Union pour la démocratie et le progrès social (UDPS) appears to have got the better of President Josep
18th Dec 2015

Djibouti may not have been a port of call for United States President Barack Obama during his recent Africa visit but it is still a vital component of US global counterterrorism policy. US Secretary of State John Kerry showed that when he paid President I
6th Aug 2015

Buccaneer mine owner Robert Friedland claims to have discovered the world's biggest undeveloped copper mine at Kamoa in Congo's Katanga Province. He has also brought in one of China's biggest mining companies Zijin Mining Group to finance the project
10th Jul 2015

Supporters of the Katanga Governor Moïse Katumbi Chapwe seem unwilling to take no for an answer after his many refusals to stand for the presidency. The calls grow in strength even though he is widely believed to fear assassination if he went for the co
1st May 2015

A wave of repression costing dozens of lives and hundreds of arrests failed to prevent Parliament on 25 January from defeating President Joseph Kabila's bid to postpone next year's presidential election until after a census (AC Vol 56 No 1 Hell no he wo
6th Feb 2015

Interim President Catherine Samba-Panza's surprise choice of Mahamat Kamoun as the new Prime Minister along with a cabinet of 31 has dismayed Central African Republic's international supporters. They believe that Samba-Panza's appointees include a numbe
29th Aug 2014

The fractious politics of Casamance are holding up President Macky Sall's grand economic plans as he tries to relaunch his battered government. He believes that a breakthrough in the deadlock with Casamance separatists could pave the way for a major reviv
19th Aug 2014