Vol 51 No 7 | GHANA Oil spill 2nd April 2010 No end is in sight to the row between the government and the United States' Kosmos Energy over Kosmos's efforts to sell its equity stake in Ghana's Jubilee...
Vol 51 No 6 | NIGER Confusion after the coup 19th March 2010 The new military rulers promise an anti-corruption purge and elections but are thin on detail The 18 February coup was almost surgical and was popular with the many people who wanted President Mamadou Tandja ousted, but the follow-up appears more improvised and chaotic...
Vol 51 No 6 | TOGO Tarnished triumph 19th March 2010 As President Faure’s regime cracks down on protest against his election fraud, the opposition dithers Opposition politicians say the results of the 6 March elections were fraudulent but show little stomach for confronting the heavily militarised regime in Lomé or elsewhere. France and...
Vol 51 No 6 | TOGO The men at the centre 19th March 2010 * Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé, 44, won a second five-year term, on a platform of economic development and reform, with few details. He will be sworn in on 3...
Vol 51 No 6 | SIERRA LEONE Kabba on trial 19th March 2010 The energetic Director of the Anti-Corruption Commission, Abdul Tejan-Cole, is scoring some success, with the suspension of the third minister in President Ernest Bai Koroma’s government on charges...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 5 | GUINEACHINA New pressure on China deals 15th March 2010 The new government is divided on demands for a review of the $7bn China International Fund contracts
Vol 3 (AAC) No 5 | GHANASINGAPORE Kofi Annan 15th March 2010 former United Nations Secretary General and Professor, National University of Singapore Former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan is taking African advocacy directly to Asia, as he takes up his appointment as Li Ka-shing Professor at the Lee Kuan...
Vol 51 No 5 | NIGERIA Yar'Adua goes into extra time 5th March 2010 The reappearance of the President has worsened the political paralysis – and the splits in the PDP government On 3 March, the state governors decided to block a vote that could have set in motion President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s enforced resignation on medical grounds. This has...
Vol 51 No 5 | NIGERIA On her Majesty's Secret Service 5th March 2010 Wits in Abuja have taken to referring to First Lady Turai Yar’Adua as ‘Her Majesty’ and her coterie of apparatchiks as the ‘Secret Service’. She organised the clandestine...
Vol 51 No 5 | GHANA Oil and optimism 5th March 2010 The President’s grand development plans contrast sharply with partisan manoeuvres in Parliament and beyond In a year’s time Ghana should be producing 150,000 barrels of oil a day and its economy should be growing at well over 10% a year (AC Vol...