BY GBENGA ODUTAN Nigeria’s new cabinet, perhaps the most awaited in the history of constitutional democracy in Africa, has finally been sworn in. The wait involved at first a shocking … Read More
BY JIBRIL TURE President Ouattara has won Sunday’s presidential election in Cote d’Ivoire. He received 84 percent of the votes, against 9 percent for the second-place finisher, Pascal Affi N’Guessan, … Read More
BY JIBRIL TURE In a news conference held on Friday, former Ivorian prime minister and candidate of the broad National Coalition for Change, CNC, said he was pulling out of … Read More
BY JOHN J. STREMLAU Ivory Coast is rapidly becoming a politically capable democracy – one able to inspire and partner with its neighbours in recovering from decades of chaos and …
BY BOB KOYLE WITH JIBRIL TURE ABIDJAN, COTE D’IVOIRE—Not many people here, including the seven men who are campaigning to unseat President Alassane Ouattara, have any doubt who the winner … Read More
BY NIC CHEESEMAN The state of democracy in Africa is one of the most controversial and difficult questions facing the continent today. Is Africa getting more or less democratic? Why …
BY SOUMANOU SALIFOU The recent peaceful political transition in Nigeria has been extensively discussed, so let me not beat a dead horse. But President Buhari is in Washington this week, … Read More
BY JIBRIL TURE Barely seven weeks after his May 29’s swearing-in, Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari, at the invitation of U.S. president Barack Obama, started on Monday a four-day visit to … Read More
BY JIBRIL TURE “Mr. Obama is supporting a dictatorship and giving legitimacy to tyranny,” Serkalem Selassie, 39, a refugee from Ethiopia living in Arlington, near Washington, D.C. reportedly told Washington … Read More
By Usman Mama The outgoing president of Namibia, Hifikepunye Pohamba, was named Monday the winner of the Mo Ibrahim Prize aimed at rewarding African leaders for good governance. During the … Read More
