56/5 | A dream deferred
Potential can be a heavy burden. That is the feeling in Conakry as President Alpha Condé and his advisors watch the prospects of economic development financed by minerals recede into the distance. During Cape Town's Mining Indaba in February Africa's lea
6th Mar 2015
56/4 | The Ebola bonanza
Freetown's redoubtable Auditor General Lara Taylor-Pearce has struck again publishing a damning report on the misuse of public funds between May when the Ebola epidemic broke out and October (AC Vol 56 No 2 The politics of Ebola). Her audit found fa
19th Feb 2015
56/4 | Out of Africa, taxes
Confidential documents from PricewaterhouseCoopers leaked late last year revealed how about 350 companies around the world negotiated advantageous deals with the Luxembourg tax authorities. Africa Confidential has mined the data for the deals to find plac
11th Feb 2015
56/3 | Census suspicions
President Ernest Bai Koroma has called off the national housing and population census planned for April after criticism that members of his All Peoples' Congress (APC) were over-represented in its management. Due last December the census was interrupted
6th Feb 2015
56/3 | A year of decisions after a decade of growth
Africa with its 1.2 billion people will again be the continent that achieves the fastest economic growth this year but its monied cheerleaders will have pause for thought as some harsh realities hit home. The six biggest economies – Algeria Angol
6th Feb 2015
56/2 | The politics of Ebola
In its last report on Ebola the United Nations World Health Organisation offered Sierra Leone some good news. The incidence of infection appeared to be decreasing the WHO said with 184 new confirmed cases reported in the week to 11 January compared wi
23rd Jan 2015
55/25 | Freetown under fire on Ebola
On 12 December President Ernest Bai Koroma issued an edict banning all Christmas celebrations especially the street festivals and masquerades for which Freetown is famous. On 25 December soldiers will be deployed on the streets of the capital to enforc
19th Dec 2014
55/25 | Uneasy peace on the border
United Nations' investigators have warned the UN Security Council that Ivorian and Liberian fighters opposed to Côte d'Ivoire's President Alassane Dramane Ouattara are likely to multiply in the run-up to his country's elections next October. They co
19th Dec 2014
55/22 | Stepping up the fight against Ebola
As November began some cautious optimism was evident in Liberia the country most affected by Ebola. The disease has not only caused an unprecedented health crisis in the neglected rural areas but quickly became a major governance and security challenge
7th Nov 2014
55/22 | Firefighters against an inferno
Searching for a way to sum up ousted the 27-year rule of Burkinabè ex-President Blaise Compaoré as the opposition gathered on the streets in Ouagadougou last week a French political analyst settled for 'un pompier pyromane' a firefighter who is
7th Nov 2014
