61/8 | Hard bargaining ahead on debt and public health
Backed by forecasts from the World Bank and UN agencies of a deep recession African finance ministers are to push next week for a coordinated response on public health funding economic stimulus and debt relief at a succession of international gathering
11th Apr 2020
61/5 | George Weah at bay
The crippling petrol shortages this year have pushed up the prices of fuel and much else as commercial transporters raised their fares. Liberians angered by the steep fall of the Liberian dollar against the US dollar are venting their frustration on Pre
5th Mar 2020
61/4 | Beshir's trials begin
Reports that the Khartoum transitional government has approved cooperation with the International Criminal Court in the Hague came on 11 February after a flurry of diplomatic initiatives mostly aimed at getting Sudan removed from the United States' list
20th Feb 2020
61/4 | Spoiling for a fight
President Julius Maada Bio put firms operating in the countrys mining sector on notice when he outlined a reform programme at the annual Mining Indaba in Cape Town earlier this month. The President in power for two years has overturned the sector polici
20th Feb 2020
61/4 | 'Eco'-logical concerns
Francophone West African countries' decision to convert their CFA franc into a first version of the 'eco' a planned single currency for the whole region has sparked furious criticism in Nigeria which has called for delay amid concern that its regional
20th Feb 2020
60/23 | Brexit and a trade pipe-dream
A win for the Conservatives in the election on 12 December would mean Britain's formal exit from the European Union early next year. That would be followed by years of trade negotiations between Britain and the rest of the world. But in the short-term the
21st Nov 2019
60/22 | Command economics on trial
With economic growth failing to keep pace with population growth and the country far too dependent on oil and gas exports President Muhammadu Buhari is trying to deal with critical shortages of revenues and fast-growing debt obligations. A sign of how b
7th Nov 2019
60/12 | An oily threat to Sall
Ever since BBC television's Panorama current affairs programme revealed apparent evidence that controversial British-based Australian/Romanian businessman Vasile Frank Timis made massive payments to President Macky Sall's brother Aliou Sall the political
14th Jun 2019
60/10 | Pushing out the privateers
BP has cemented its interest in the Senegal basin by sweeping up two disputed oil blocks off the coast of Gambia previously held by Norway-listed Africa Petroleum as a raft of increasingly positive exploration results ramps up interest in the region among
17th May 2019
60/10 | Weah on borrowed time
A much-anticipated 'Save the State' protest which is scheduled for 7 June seems to be gaining momentum as citizens challenge President George Weah and his government on critical national issues. 'We are not demanding the President to step down but we w
17th May 2019
