Vol 65 No 4 | NIGERIAUNITED STATESISRAEL Kanu's lobbyists for Biafra step up campaign 9th February 2024 The separatist leader refused to appear in court in Abuja on 8 February but has more wealthy supporters in Washington DC The campaign for a 'Jewish Autonomous Region in Biafra' is trying to boost its profile after hiring new lobbyists in the United States. Its backers hope to rekindle...
Vol 65 No 3 | NIGERIA Shock therapy keeps the people waiting 1st February 2024 Dollar-rich investors have reacted to President Tinubu's radical reforms by rushing to the door President Bola Tinubu's great gamble that shock therapy – ending subsidies and devaluing the naira – would bring back foreign capital and stabilise state finances isn't working. Instead,...
Vol 65 No 3 | GHANA Cash flows in but debt talks drag on 1st February 2024 The treasury has received $600 million in vital IMF funds but doubts persist on a deal with creditors before election campaigning starts At the start of a crucial election year, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's embattled government has some reasons to be cheerful following confirmation on 12 January by the...
Vol 65 No 3 | SENEGAL A crowded field 1st February 2024 Now definitively excluded from the presidential race, the imprisoned Ousmane Sonko waits to learn whether his stand-in, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, will be allowed out of jail to campaign...
Vol 65 No 3 | NIGERIASIERRA LEONEECOWAS Anatomy of a failed coup in Freetown 29th January 2024 A band of gunmen hoped to become Africa's newest junta and couldn't muster support, but questions about the role of ex-President Koroma abound Ex-President Ernest Bai Koroma's release for 'medical treatment' in Nigeria and the backroom deal that brought it about has enraged many of President Julius Maada Bio's supporters. Controversy...
Vol 65 No 3 | NIGERIA Shell leads oil majors' exit from the Niger Delta 26th January 2024 Companies accused of under-investment – arrangements on financing and liability for pollution may be contested When the British oil major Shell announced on 16 January that it would be selling its interests in 18 oil licences in shallow water and onshore Niger Delta...
Vol 65 No 2 | GHANA Ofori-Atta claims big win 18th January 2024 Confirmation on 17 January of a deal between Ghana and its official bilateral creditors (Paris Club and China) to restructure payments owed on US$5.4 billion of debt, is...
Vol 65 No 2 | NIGERIA Abductions prompt security alert 18th January 2024 The reported deaths of Nabeeha Al-Kadriyar, who was kidnapped along with 22 others in the Bwari Area of Abuja, and 13-year-old Folasade Ariyo, who was abducted alongside eleven...
Vol 65 No 2 | SÃO TOMÉ & PRÍNCIPE Petrobras invests in oil sector 18th January 2024 Following the signature of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on joint business opportunities in the upstream with Shell in March 2023, on 27 December Brazil's state-controlled oil company...
Vol 65 No 2 | SIERRA LEONE Ex-President Koroma faces treason charges as crisis deepens 10th January 2024 The dispute over last year's elections has escalated as the former President prepares for a treason trial Political tensions are mounting in Freetown after the secret plan to allow Sierra Leone's former President, Ernest Bai Koroma to go into exile in Nigeria and drop the...