Vol 57 No 7 | SIERRA LEONE Reshuffle and a long goodbye 22nd March 2016 A raft of new cabinet appointments has reignited suspicion that President Koroma may be planning to stay on beyond the end of his second term President Ernest Bai Koroma named 13 new ministers and deputy ministers, some of them his most devoted and hardline supporters, on 14 March in Freetown. One Freetown daily...
Vol 64 No 13 | NIGERIA Tinubu's team looks for shock absorbers 23rd June 2023 Having chosen to push through radical reforms in the government's first weeks, officials are scrambling to address the political consequences After the policy advisors around President Bola Ahmed Tinubu backed a shock therapy approach to ending fuel subsidies and floating the naira, their next priority is to cushion...
Vol 37 No 21 | NIGERIA Privatising politics 18th October 1996 The ruling soldiers believes that selling state assets will win them friends and influence The government is pushing ahead with its sale of state assets in the hope of reaping political and economic dividends. First to come to market will be the...
Vol 48 No 21 | SIERRA LEONE The new man picks his team 19th October 2007 President Koroma wants to run the country as a business, but its managers are mostly politicians Sierra Leone's promised turnaround is beginning to take shape. Incoming President Ernest Bai Koroma of the All People's Congress (APC) has appointed 20 ministers to his new cabinet....
Vol 47 No 2 | NIGERIA A New Year offensive 20th January 2006 Oil prices rise as hardline militia groups demand the release of Delta leaders and the exit of foreign companies The main puzzle about the latest wave of attacks and kidnappings to sweep the Niger Delta is why it took so long this time. Local leaders had been...