Vol 62 No 24 | NIGERIA Shooting the messengers 2nd December 2021 The row over the shootings at Lekki toll gate in Lagos a year ago is set to spill into the campaign for national elections in 2023. After an...
Vol 62 No 24 | BURKINA FASO Kaboré searches desperately for answers on security 24th November 2021 Jihadists exploit ethnic and regional fissures as they step up attacks against schools, businesses and government forces As protestors take to the streets to demand tougher action by President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré against jihadist attacks, vast areas of the country's northern region have become...
Vol 62 No 23 | NIGERIA A new political launchpad 18th November 2021 After winning the governorship in Anambra, Charles Soludo has positioned himself for a future presidential campaign Former central bank governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo stormed to victory in Anambra state's gubernatorial elections on 6 November in a blow to the two biggest parties and militant...
Vol 62 No 23 | NIGERIA Lagos probe accuses military 18th November 2021 Activists doubt that evidence of systematic killings by police and soldiers will prompt a serious response by government The report by the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry was damning and contradicted all official accounts, especially those by the army and police, of what happened at...
Vol 62 No 23 | MALI Meeting Moscow, battling Brussels 18th November 2021 European Union sanctions on those who impede the transition back to democracy, following those imposed by the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas), deepens confrontation with Bamako...
Vol 62 No 23 | GUINEA Conakry gets its new class 18th November 2021 Most of the 27 ministers in Guinea's new cabinet picked by junta leader Colonel Mamady Doumbouya are mostly youngish and mostly technocratic. Prime Minister Mohamed Béavogui, 68, is...
Vol 62 No 23 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE When the parties go to pieces 16th November 2021 All the main parties are floundering, seeking successors and relevance, as Gbagbo relaunches his political career Ex-President Laurent Gbagbo's Front populaire ivoirien (FPI) has splintered and its former leader helms a new party; President Alassane Ouattara's Rassemblement des houphouëtistes pour la démocratie et la...
Vol 62 No 23 | MALIRUSSIAUNITED NATIONS Bamako and Moscow defy Paris 11th November 2021 The Malian foreign minister's trip to Moscow will be read as a slap in Paris's face as the junta deepens relations with President Putin's government The visit by Mali's Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop to Moscow on 11 November flies in the face of French government complaints about Russia's state-backed mercenaries and their allied...
Vol 62 No 23 | GHANA Populist anti-gay bill divides churches and activists 5th November 2021 Advocates of a draconian anti-gay law are piling pressure on President Akufo-Addo and have sparked a rift with the Anglican church The Ghanaian Family Values Bill is likely to sail through Parliament if it is voted on in the coming weeks. The main opposition and governing parties are broadly... READ FOR FREE
Vol 62 No 21 | NIGERIA A splintered sect 21st October 2021 The death of a notorious jihad leader has shifted the balance of power among terrorist groups in the region An unrelenting campaign of terror by Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) continues to gather steam as it positions itself to succeed Boko Haram, from which it splintered,...