The economic and political prospects may be bright in the medium term but on 17 April John Dramani Mahama reached his first 100 days in office without much...

On 16 April, the Supreme Court began hearings on the petition from the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) to annul John Mahama’s victory in December’s presidential election. This...

The latest round of courtroom battles in the West and arrests in Conakry have one certain result: that the plans to invest US$10 billion to produce iron ore...

The 65% of the vote which carried President Macky Sall to victory over Abdoulaye Wade in March last year was always about who he wasn’t, not who he...

Late in the evening of 17 April, Karim Wade, son of former President Abdoulaye Wade and ex-Minister for International Cooperation, Infrastructure, Air Transport and Energy, was taken...

The United States Supreme Court decided on 17 April to back a lower court’s refusal to hear a suit brought by Nigerians against Royal Dutch Shell ...

The official version is that France’s Mali operation has achieved all its objectives – the expulsion of jihadist forces from main northern towns and the destruction of several...

As the military operation in Mali continues, fresh complications arise. Early reports from the European trainers suggest that progress in restoring the discipline and effectiveness of the Malian...

At least half of the candidates which the Commission électorale indépendante (CEI) has accepted for the regional and municipal elections on 21 April are running as independents. On...

In Abidjan’s large suburb of Yopougon, seven of nine candidates are standing as independents, with one candidate from the Parti démocratique de Côte d’Ivoire-Rassemblement démocratique africain and the...