Vol 63 No 24 | NIGERIA Contractors who clean up 1st December 2022 With no accounts or tenders published, disquiet continues to grow over the companies HYPREP has contracted for remediation work Concerns over the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) are growing among Ogoni activists and politicians and civil society organisations against pollution, backing th...
Vol 63 No 24 | NIGERIA HYPREP twists UNEP's arm 1st December 2022 Nigeria has enlisted its former Environment Minister to keep UNEP on board while doubts on remediation contractors increase Nigerian officialdom is doing its best to prevent the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) severing its consultancy with the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPRE...
Vol 63 No 24 | CÔTE D'IVOIRE Rebel returns home 1st December 2022 Eight years after being transferred to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, and almost two years after his final acquittal for crimes against humanity, Charles Bl&e...
Vol 63 No 24 | SÃO TOMÉ & PRÍNCIPEMILITARY A coup and a cover-up 1st December 2022 In the early hours of 25 November, heavy gunfire was heard in the military district in São Tomé when four men, Sãotomean veterans of apartheid South Africa's i...
Vol 63 No 23 | NIGERIA Spend, spend, spend 17th November 2022 Government borrowing has been soaring, and loans from the central bank are many times over the statutory limit Lower tax revenues due to plummeting recorded crude oil output, coupled with several expansionary budgets, mean that Nigerian government borrowing has been rocketing as the country...
Vol 63 No 23 | GHANA Finance in question 17th November 2022 The sacking of Minister of State for Finance Charles Adu Boahen on 14 November briefly moved the spotlight from the substantive Minister of Finance Ken Ofori-Atta who has been answ...
Vol 63 No 22 | GHANA Economic woes hit Akufo-Addo on all sides 3rd November 2022 Ruling party MPs call for the head of the finance minister, as critics blame corruption for the plunging cedi and rising prices Under growing pressure from within and outside his New Patriotic Party (NPP), President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is trying to mollify critics of the government's economic strate...
Vol 63 No 22 | MALIFRANCESAHEL Bamako's wolf warrior diplomacy backfires 28th October 2022 Foreign Minister Diop's attacks on France and peacekeepers meets sceptical silence at UN Security Council After accusing France of supporting Islamist militia groups at a UN Security Council meeting on 18 October, Bamako's foreign minister Abdoulaye Diop dialled down the rhetoric five ...
Vol 63 No 21 | NIGERIA Grand corruption wrecks Niger delta clean-up 20th October 2022 Theft from the billion-dollar oil clean-up in Ogoniland is so bad that the operation's chief architect, the UN Environment Programme, wants to quit The UN Environment Programme is set for a bitter break with Nigeria over the clean-up of pipeline spills in the Niger delta despite almost 15 years of close cooperation, Africa Con...
Vol 63 No 21 | GHANA Banking on the Fund 20th October 2022 Worries over the repercussions of a wide-ranging debt restructuring are slowing the government’s negotiations for a $3 billion credit from the IMF The markets have turned against President Nana Akufo-Addo's New Patriotic Party (NPP) government, pushing up bond yields and eroding the value of the cedi against the dollar by 45%...