Togo

The Abu Dhabi Fund for Development is accelerating oversight of large road projects in Togo, Madagascar and Nigeria as Gulf states expand strategic infrastructure investments…

The country’s the last major constitutional change was in 1992

Far too many African assets are still under the control of Western powers

Leaders at some African firms are looking at Francophone markets as a way to expand sales hit by Covid-19 and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Mali’s junta now finds itself ostracised by its regional peers – and at the centre of a dangerous new geopolitical game.

Food systems lack resilience in the face of crisis and that feed crises of their own making, driving climate change and fuelling epidemics of hunger, malnutrition, obesity and…

Governments’ interruption of social media is censorship is a way to control the flow of information online and amounts to censorship

“Family fortunes” in Chad reflect further-reaching dynamics of ruling

Just as a “nobody” can spew falsehoods and propaganda on social media, so too can a political leader — only with more dire consequences.

Four former heads of state speak about what being president is actually like

COMMENT The world is going through unprecedented challenges caused by a novel, rapidly transmitted coronavirus. Experts predict difficult times ahead with shrinking economies,…

The methods that work in Western nations rarely translate into African contexts

Civil-military relations across the continent are tenuous, at best. Covid-19 may have given African governments an opportunity to create a new social compact with their citizens

Faced with jihadist breakthrough in Burkina Faso, neighbouring states in the Gulf of Guinea increasingly fear attacks in their own territories