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The United Kingdom has said it will have a free hand to sign better deals with Kenya once it completes its exit from the European Union.
UK High Commissioner to Kenya Nic Hailey said that without the restrictions that go …
Continue readingAt least 95 per cent of eligible voters have already validated their personal details on the national voters’ registrar with the majority using internet and mobile phones through short message services, the National Electoral Commission (NEC) has said.
Since November, …
Continue readingIn 2007, Tanzania did something radical: it promised a pathway to citizenship for over 162,000 refugees from Burundi who had settled in the country in the early 1970s. No one took much notice when the Tanzanian government, with little international …
Continue readingBefore Nana Akufo-Addo’s inauguration as Ghana’s new President, the Financial Times sent its Africa correspondent to interview him. Akufo-Addo won Ghana’s presidential elections, on December 7, 2016, by a wide margin over incumbent John Dramani Mahama. The Financial Times report …
Continue readingPresident Kagame has told members of the diplomatic corps that presidential elections slated for August 4, 2017 will be conducted in a fair, transparent and peaceful way as others had been held before in the country.
“We are looking forward …
Continue readingThe Gambia’s presidential election crisis has been of particular personal interest for me. Between 2013 and 2014 I lived in the country as a law lecturer at the University of The Gambia. The experience was a fantastic one and helped …
Continue readingEvery four years the CIA’s National Intelligence Council (NIC) provides the incoming president and his administration with an assessment of the most powerful global forces likely to affect foreign and domestic affairs. Known as the CIA’s Global trends, the report …
Continue readingHas the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) just taught the Southern African Development Community (SADC) a lesson? The West African states effectively took a dictator to task after he refused to comply with the democratic will of the …
Continue readingAs the promotional ovation of ‘Made in Nigeria’ seizes the moment, no other time will be more appropriate to remind ourselves the essentiality of electronic
commerce in inclusive economic growth.
In the contemporary Nigeria, the renewed calls for the patronage …
Tunisia will offer foreign investors and financiers participation in $50bn of projects as it seeks to create jobs to maintain political stability, the country’s investment minister said.
The projects range from construction of a new deep-water port at Enfidha in …
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