Headed by an Anglophone former Prime Minister Peter Mafany Musonge the National Commission for the Promotion of Bilingualism and Multiculturalism which President Paul Biya ordered in January is beginning work (AC Vol 37 No 22 Election enterprise). It
26th May 2017

When nursing assistant Salome Karwah an Ebola fever survivor who had appeared on the cover of America's Time Magazine as a Person of the Year in 2014 died after giving birth this February in Monrovia it was front-page news. Time lamented that Karwah ha
14th Apr 2017

The involvement of the maverick businessman Vasile Frank Timis in Senegal's oil industry and his cosy relationship with President Macky Sall's government has attracted renewed interest from international investigators and delayed a promised licensing roun
31st Mar 2017

Israel's latest African charm offensive will peak with an Israel-Africa summit on security and development in Lomé Togo in October. The organisers hope to have 25 sub-Saharan governments at the conference but few expect even half that number to show up.
31st Mar 2017

A scramble to replace Africa's first elected female president Nobel Prize winner Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf at elections in October has led to strange alliances and the intervention of Charles Taylor from the prison in Britain where he is serving a 50-year
17th Feb 2017

Africa Confidential has obtained a recording of a phone call of Charles Taylor giving political advice to his supporters in Liberia. The call appeared to use a landline inside Frankland prison near Durham and took place on 28 January this year Taylor's
10th Feb 2017

It would take a mere seven days for President Yahya Jammeh to pronounce the unthinkable and request the impossible. On 2 December he appeared on television to tell a surprised world that he was conceding defeat by Adama Barrow in the previous day's presi
16th Dec 2016

Three legal and political disputes mark the end of a rare spell out of the limelight for Vasile Frank Timis since the collapse of African Minerals Limited (AML) his mining company that was publicly listed in Britain and focused on Sierra Leone. A case ag
2nd Dec 2016

Facing lacklustre demand in the global market the country's iron-ore production is only slowly recovering from the disaster of the Ebola epidemic of 2014-2015. The leading company in Sierra Leone Shandong Iron and Steel is facing a brave new world. It
7th Oct 2016

The sudden death in a London hospital of businessman and politician Gibril Santigie Moseray Fadika on 7 August has cast some light on the intrigues surrounding the battle to succeed President Ernest Bai Koroma whose final term expires next year. Africa C
23rd Sep 2016