A new round of legal action against local and foreign companies accused of dumping toxic waste in Côte d'Ivoire which killed 16 people in 2006 could have serious political an...

Nobody has told Nigerians what was wrong with their President, who was in hospital in Saudi Arabia from 20 August to 6 September. Things are clearly not well with Umaru Musa Yar’Ad...

In northern Ghana, the campaign got off to a violent start when Mahamudu Bawumia, vice-presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party for the elections on 7 December, arrived in...

The two main parties’ vice-presidential candidates are both under fifty years old and from northern Ghana. Otherwise they are very different. The National Democratic Congress’s Jo...

President Abdoulaye Wade took office in 2000, claiming democratic and economic credentials. Times have changed. After scandalous revelations about budgetary excess, his government&...

Things turned nasty in late July, when the Minister of Justice, Carmelita Pires, and the Public Prosecutor, Luis Manuel Cabral, received death threats. This was due to their persis...

Britain’s Virgin Atlantic has lost the first round in its battle with Nigeria’s government and is expected to sell all but 7% of its 49% stake in the lossmaking Virgin ...

Telecoms impresario Mike Adenuga has bounced back, despite the longrunning investigation into his company by Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

The rumours of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s demise reverberating around Nigeria’s mobile phone networks over the past week were assuredly exaggerated, a combin...

Concern about the conduct of December’s elections is growing in the wake of violent clashes during the primary elections, electoral registration and political rallies.