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Junta’s stance threatens uranium exports

In its haste to expel western mining companies, the junta risks being left with no one to exploit its most valuable export

General Abdourahamane Tiani’s military junta has carried out its threat to revoke the uranium mining licences of companies deemed not to have progressed their projects quickly enough, but...

The gold rush that poisons politics

Campaigners are pressuring the vested interests profiting from galamsey mining in both parties ahead of the election

In response to growing outrage at the damage to farmland, livelihoods and the wider economy caused by galamsey mining, the government has promised to set up four specialised...

Manufacturing consent and criminalising dissent

A split opposition allows President Tinubu to co-opt parliament and crack down hard on protestors

Many Nigerians say the country is going through the worst hardship for 30 years, with an economy blighted by spiralling prices, capital flight and grand corruption. And rights...

Talon turns on his allies

The Cotonou political class is in shock following the detention of Olivier Boko, a close associate of President Patrice Talon, and former sports minister Oswald Homéky, amid allegations...

Bio rids himself of a turbulent auditor

Corruption cases are mounting but the President and parliament want to end a decade of independent scrutiny by Auditor-General Lara Taylor-Pearce

When Sierra Leone’s parliament returns from recess on 31 October, one of the first orders of business will be to ratify President Julius Maada Bio’s endorsement of the...

Diomaye Faye asks the people for a bigger mandate

The president’s coalition should get a parliamentary majority in November’s snap election but he needs over 60% to drive through his reform plans

Two months from now millions of Senegalese voters are due to return to the polling stations, following the dissolution of the national assembly by President Bassirou Diomaye Faye,...

Africa Confidential prompts probe of business school scheme

The Anti-Corruption Commission has opened an investigation into Africa Confidential’s report on the failed campus project as public anger grows

Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) announced on 27 August that ‘after a careful review of’ Africa Confidential’s special report on how the University of Sierra Leone (USL) lost...

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Dangote and Tinubu wrestle over the future of oil

The vested interests of the political class are driving the public fight over a US$20 billion refinery and may determine its fate

The threat of more mass protests and the spiralling cost of petrol, over 1,000 naira (62 US cents) a litre in parts of Nigeria, have played to Aliko...

Faye mulls a snap parliamentary poll

Differences between the president’s measured style and that of his fiery prime minister may complicate national politics and regional diplomacy

Dakar political life is slowing down in August giving President Bassirou Diomaye Faye some time to weigh up whether to dissolve the National Assembly in September and call...

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