64/6 | Europe cools on West to North Africa gas pipeline as delays mount
Near the top of the priority list for Nigeria's new oil minister due to start work on 29 May will be whether to move ahead on a trans-Sahara pipeline to export vast quantities of gas to Europe via Algeria or Morocco. The rewards for Nigeria's gas indust
14th Mar 2023
64/1 | How the polycrisis will play out
With a third of the world including many African economies forecast by the IMF to go into recession unsustainable debts with all their socio-political consequences will take centre stage this year. A deadly combination of rocketing western interest rat
5th Jan 2023
63/21 | A dozen in the dock
Thirteen years to the day after the Conakry stadium massacre that left 157 people dead the trial officially opened against those held responsible (AC Vol 50 No 20 Gunning down democracy). Three men the United Nations had identified as the main culprits
20th Oct 2022
63/19 | Calls for a reset get louder with the death of the Queen
With the passing of Queen Elizabeth II an umbilical link with the generation of independence leaders has been broken. She knew them all and almost every Commonwealth African leader since then. Whatever the relations between governments the sense that h
12th Sep 2022
63/18 | What will Truss mean for Africa?
When it emerged on 5 September that Britain's new Prime Minister Liz Truss was likely to appoint politicians of African descent to four of the most senior positions in her cabinet – finance home affairs foreign affairs and international trade &nda
4th Aug 2022
63/10 | The UN reports that food and energy crises are deepening due to Russia's war on Ukraine
African states are facing 'a Catch-22 situation' as the war in Europe is driving up the cost of food and the cost of growing it locally according to Ahunna Eziakonwa UN Assistant Secretary General and Director of the UN Development Programme's Regional
10th May 2022
63/9 | The junta's revolving door – Kaboré released and Compaoré convicted
Of the three military regimes in West Africa under pressure to hand over to civilians Burkina Faso's junta led by Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba is proving the most adept at navigating national and regional politics (AC Vol 63 No 3 Anothe
14th Apr 2022
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