Vol 64 No 7 | GHANA A commission under fire 30th March 2023 The appointment of three new members to the seven-member electoral commission has prompted concerns that the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) is packing the institution ahead of what...
Vol 64 No 6 | NIGERIA State elections will reinforce three-party vote split 16th March 2023 Peter Obi's Labour Party will face fierce local fights as incumbent governors defend their fiefdoms after last month's political upsets The outcome of the elections in 28 of Nigeria's 36 states on 18 March will have more effect on the daily lives of most voters than the disputed...
Vol 64 No 6 | GHANA Khaki vigilantes 16th March 2023 The Ghana Armed Forces have come under fierce public criticism following an apparent vigilante operation they conducted at Ashaiman, a densely populated town near Tema, in the Greater...
Vol 64 No 6 | GHANA Fights over debt and public spending are shaping the election campaign 13th March 2023 The opposition is revelling in criticisms of the government's economic management by the Auditor-General, who is in the spotlight again In a rowdy session in parliament on 8 March, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo used his state of the nation address to explain how the government planned to...
Vol 64 No 5 | NIGERIA Tinubu's last trick: from godfather to Kabiyesi 2nd March 2023 Opposition contenders question the ruling party candidate's victory in elections marred by technical failures, sporadic violence and a historically low turnout The next act of Nigeria's presidential election drama has started with fire and fury. At one end of the stage stands the official winner, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, whose...
Vol 64 No 5 | LIBERIA Weah stays in pole position 2nd March 2023 The controversial president has a poor governing record, but no candidate looks strong enough to defeat him in October’s poll The temperature is rising fast in the run-up to Liberia's parliamentary and presidential election in October. Last month, President George Weah used the occasion of his sixth annual...
Vol 64 No 5 | NIGERIA Court tells HYPREP to come clean 2nd March 2023 A Federal High Court in Nigeria has ordered the government's flagship environmental remediation agency to stop work and publish its accounts.
Vol 64 No 5 | SÃO TOMÉ & PRÍNCIPE A vendetta that went wrong 2nd March 2023 A botched attempt at revenge was the conclusion of São Tomé's Public Prosecutor following its investigation of the failed assault of the military barracks of 25 November.
Vol 64 No 5 | MALI A junta that's going nowhere 27th February 2023 The five ruling colonels are digging in for a long stay – but neither Wagner's mercenaries nor the army are stemming the jihadist tide The military junta is making itself comfortable. That much was clear on 21 February when the National Transitional Council (NTC), a hastily convened rubber-stamp parliament of 120 placemen...
Vol 64 No 5 | NIGERIA A high turnout will shake up national politics 24th February 2023 Peter Obi easily wins the opinion polls but the elections on the ground are still wide open If many of the local and international opinion polls on Nigeria's presidential elections on 25 February prove accurate, then Peter Obi, the multi-millionaire banker standing on the Labour...