Vol 6 (AAC) No 3 | GHANA John Dramani Mahama 15th January 2013 President, Ghana Newly elected as President in December 2012, John Dramani Mahama will continue to deepen Ghana’s ties with its Asian trading partners. When former Vice-President Mahama served...
Vol 54 No 1 | NIGERIA Early start for Jonathan 10th January 2013 Despite corruption worries and a row with Obasanjo over the crisis in the north, President Jonathan prepares to stand in the 2015 elections Election billboards in the business district of Abuja calling for President Goodluck Jonathan to stand for election again in 2015 opened the political season of the New...
Vol 54 No 1 | GHANA Politics goes to court 10th January 2013 International organisations say it is a model of probity and efficiency, but the Electoral Commission must answer detailed claims of vote rigging The year started with the presidential inauguration of John Dramani Mahama on 7 January and then consideration by the Supreme Court of a petition claiming his election had...
Vol 54 No 1 | MALI Talk first, fight later 10th January 2013 The Bamako government wants to use negotiations – and military muscle – to retake the northern provinces seized by jihadists The grand plan for Mali’s army to wrest the northern provinces of Gao, Kidal and Timbuktu from jihadist militias is due to swing into operation in the...
Vol 54 No 1 | MALI Django unchained 10th January 2013 New Prime Minister Django Sissoko has started well, winning support for his government with his consensual style. A member of the nominated Transitional Assembly before his promotion, he...
Vol 53 No 25 | GHANA The Mahama factor 14th December 2012 The NDC candidate turned around the campaign after his predecessor’s death; now he has to deliver on his promise of sweeping improvements to governance It was Ghana’s longest, costliest and most acrimonious election campaign. It ended with a grand party for the National Democratic Congress on 9 December and attempts by the...
Vol 53 No 25 | GHANA The democracy question 14th December 2012 With a population nudging 25 million and a fast-growing lower-middle-income economy with gold, oil and gas production, Ghana can lay claim to running Africa’s most important multi-party...
Vol 53 No 25 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Soro clouds economic revival 14th December 2012 Ouattara’s new cabinet of bankers and economists underlines his determination to raise living standards but what about human rights? President Alassane Dramane Ouattara’s cabinet reshuffle on 22 November emphasised old loyalties and economic competence, firmly pushing neo-liberal economic buttons. Out from the premiership went consensus man Jeannot...
Vol 53 No 25 | MALI Captain Sanogo strikes back 14th December 2012 The putschists are spending more time shoring up their local power base than promoting the transition and the reunification of the country The appearance of a shaken Prime Minister Cheick Modibo Diarra on state television just before dawn on 11 December proffering apologies to the Malian people along with his...
Vol 53 No 25 | MALI Ructions over reconquest plan 14th December 2012 Growing divisions among Mali’s politicians and military, as well as among foreign powers, will delay plans for an internationally backed intervention to oust jihadists from the north and...