BY MARA LEICHTMAN Senegal’s elections have been peaceful and the incumbent president, Macky Sall, has been reelected. For many this comes as no surprise. Senegal has long been a stable democracy … Read More
BY IDRISS KONE Two years after former Cote d’Ivoire’s president Laurent Gbagbo went on trial for alleged crimes against humanity, the Hague-based International Criminal Court, ICC, today freed the former … Read More
BY LOU SIFA Felix Thsisekedi, 55, the son of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s historical opposition leader, Etienne Thsisekedi, today succeeded the country’s president of 18 years, Joseph Kabila, after … Read More
BY ALAN GREEN In a Fox News show, Tucker Carlson Tonight, aired eariler this week, the host accused South Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa of being a racist, called him a coward, … Read More
BY BILL J. FIGHTER The former first lady of Cote d’Ivoire, Simone Ggbagbo, who was serving a 20-year jail sentence after being convicted in 2015 for her role in the … Read More
BY USMAN MAMA Picked in February as the 2017 winner of the Ibrahim Prize, the former president of Liberia, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, today received the prestigious award in Kigali, Rwanda. The … Read More
BY JIBRIL TURE A high-profile meeting between Côte d’Ivoire’s president Alassane Dramane Ouattara and the country’s speaker of the parliament, Guillaume Soro, at the presidential palace in Abidjan on 3 … Read More
BY JIBRIL TURE The dominant sentiment that came out of the meeting of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs’ sub-committee on Africa held on Tuesday under the title “The … Read More
BY JIBRIL TURE In a press statement released on Tuesday, the U.S. State Department condemned the “excessive use of force by security forces and reports that Government-sponsored vigilantes are using … Read More
BY ALAN GREEN The World Economic Forum just released the 2017-2018 edition of the biennial Global Competitiveness Report which compares the world’s economies against each other on the basis of … Read More
