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The 28th African Union Heads of State Summit holding from January 22 to 31, 2017 will be my 4th in a row. This year’s summit with the theme ‘Harnessing the demographic dividends through investment in youth’ is significant for a …

I was at the local airport in Lagos waiting to board a flight to Abuja when a social media friend I was meeting for the first time told me he was going to reach out to me and some young …

The crisis started after former president Yahya Jammeh refused to accept the results of the Gambia’s December 2016 elections. Last week, on 21 January, Jammeh finally agreed to step down and go into exile. This averted a possible military confrontation …

In 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 …

Before 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 …

The 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 …

Every 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 …

Has 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 …

As 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 …

By Mark Anderson and Nicholas Norbrook

Donald Trump has been sworn-in as the 45th president of the United States. Here’s what his presidency could mean for Africa:

 Slowing economic growth

Africa’s economies are already struggling with the downturn. If Trump’s …