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Mahama’s plans clash with IMF strictures

After winding up the tortuous debt deal in June, the government will be hemmed in by creditors and multilateral banks

The end of Accra’s debt default tunnel is nigh. After signing a memorandum of understanding with the official creditor committee, Ghana is forecast to end the restructuring of...

The Hague doubts that Bio’s government will arrest cocaine kingpin

The Chief Immigration Officer was sacked for his links to Jos Leijdekkers but some diplomats believe the convicted drug smuggler is still being protected in Sierra Leone

Alusine Kanneh, Sierra Leone’s Chief Immigration Officer, has been dismissed as questions about his relationship with notorious cocaine smuggler Jos Leijdekkers have mounted and evidence of past dishonesty...

Security tops the Ecowas agenda

Above all, civilian governments in the regional bloc want cooperation with the military leaders against jihadist insurgents

Through his visits to the military rulers of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso in the week ending 14 March, Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama may have helped thaw...

Captain Traoré digs in for a long stay

The military ruler depends on a corps of ideological supporters who back his ambitions, but the regime is increasingly threatened by jihadists

It’s not even two years since the 34-year-old Captain Ibrahim Traoré overthrew his mentor, the previous military leader, Lieutenant-Colonel Paul Henri Damiba, with whom he had worked to...

Can Forson’s budget reset the economy?

After promising to strengthen public finances, the new government is making difficult trade-offs on tax and borrowing

Reading the 2025 budget to parliament on 11 March, Finance Minister Cassiel Ato Forson kept to the economic reset script and promises of a far-reaching National Economic Dialogue...

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Oppositionists mobilise against Faure’s constitutional fix

After 20 years in power, the president is avoiding term limits by becoming an executive prime minister with no constraints on his rule

After launching a rights charter, opposition parties and civil society groups are campaigning against the new constitution coming into effect on 6 May. One transitional year after its...

Tinubu aims for Africa’s top economy slot

Officials in Abuja hope the country’s recalculated GDP can help recover its ranking and prove the government’s harsh reforms are working

A full-throated public relations campaign is under way to show that President Bola Tinubu’s reforms are bearing fruit after two troubling years with most Nigerians hit by a...

Changing course after an oil spill

The new government has made a U-turn on the oil field battle between Italy’s Eni and former political favourite Springfield

On 25 February, Energy Minister John Jinapor cancelled a directive by the previous New Patriotic Party government which sought to unitise two adjacent oil fields: one operated by...

Mahama’s government goes private

The new government mulls privatising its electricity and water companies as well as prisons

Cruising to power on promise-packed manifesto, John Dramani Mahama has made several radical moves in his first two months in office, but his plan to sell off the...

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