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One of Africa’s most indomitable political parties, the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front, has ruled Ethiopia since 1991 with absolute control. Last December, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed took a huge risk and disbanded the party as part of his efforts to set the country’s political direction in a whole new direction. But some powerful figures …
As Ghana’s general elections approach in December, the Electoral Commission has announced plans to scrap the voters’ register and compile a new one amid the coronavirus outbreak, and at a huge cost to the nation, all just months before the campaign season begins. As if that was not risky enough, it has now transpired that …
Finally, after years of civil war and months of deadlocked peace talks, rival South Sudanese leaders President Salva Kiir and Riek Machar are sharing power in a new peace deal. But can they manage to work out the details of governing without rupturing the fragile truce between their forces, and also make peace with smaller …
Libya has been deeply unstable, with outside powers providing support to rival armed factions since Muammar Gaddafi was toppled in a 2011 uprising. In an attempt to break the cycle of violence, world leaders attended a peace summit in Germany at which they agreed to uphold a UN arms embargo and end military backing for …
President Nana Akufo-Addo calls his cousin and finance minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, an economic “magician.” Before taking office in 2017, Ofori-Atta, an investment banker, built a business empire on a real-estate transaction with a state institution – a deal that one of Ghana’s own governmental criminal investigation agencies has deemed fraudulent. As finance minister, he has …
If this epic tale of corruption was told on television, it would be considered a soap opera, complete with incestuous financial relationships connected by outrageously greedy schemes and linked by family ties all the way to the president of a nation. Quite unfortunately, Ghanaians have been watching this program unfold in their own country since …