Vol 41 No 7 | LIBERIASIERRA LEONE Radio silence 31st March 2000 President Charles Taylor's 15 March order closing down two independent radio stations - Swiss-funded Star Radio and the Catholic-run Radio Veritas - may be linked to embarrassing reports...
Vol 64 No 7 | NIGERIA Tinubu faces legitimacy challenge 30th March 2023 With less half the voters on the lowest turnout since 1999 supporting him, the president-elect has a credibility problem Questions about the national and state elections are stubbornly taking centre-stage with daily demonstrations in the capital at which the ruling All Progressives' Congress (APC) is accused of...
Vol 56 No 6 | SIERRA LEONE Koroma lashes out 20th March 2015 President Ernest Bai Koroma has removed Vice-President Samuel Sam-Sumana from office even though he does not apparently have the powers to do so. Koroma claimed that Sam-Sumana's action...
Vol 47 No 12 | SIERRA LEONE The signs are rusting 9th June 2006 Politicians compete to lead a government with big changes to make At the Lumley Beach roundabout, the bar sign that said 'Sweet Salone 2025' has rusted over and nearly collapsed, leaving only Sweet Sal. With the other places of...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 6 | NIGERIA Sanusi Lamido Sanusi 4th April 2013 Governor, Central Bank, Nigeria Sanusi Lamido Sanusi wrote an op-ed in London’s Financial Times in March that compared Chinese involvement in Africa to that of the Europeans in the colonial era....