West Africa is rounding up 2024 with one of the biggest news out of Senegal, which captures the spirit that has defined political reforms in the sub region. The government announced that it is evicting French military personnel from its territory on the 80th anniversary of a massacre on Senegalese soldiers committed by French forces,…
The Nigerièn government, National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland (French: Conseil national pour la sauvegarde de la patrie, CNSP) has made a number of weighty allegations against the Nigerian government, claiming that its neighbour to the south has been actively working to destabilise the Nigerièn military regime. The country’s military leader, General Abdourahmane…
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a disbursement of $31.4 million for burkina faso, recognising the significant progress made under the economic reform program supported by the institution. In a press release published on Thursday, December 19, 2024, the IMF announced the completion of the second review of the agreement under the Extended Credit…
Residents of the capital Monrovia woke up on Wednesday morning to see thick black smoke and flames rising from the country’s Capitol building, the seat of Liberia’s Legislature. The flames destroyed the entire joint chambers of the legislature, but no-one was in the building at the time and there has been no confirmation of the…
Nigeria’s president, Bola Ahmed Tinubu presented a N47.9 trillion ($31 billion) national budget proposal for 2025 before a joint session of the country’s National Assembly on December 18. The budget gives substantial allocations to Security and defence, infrastructure, health, and education. Joining the president at the budget presentation was the Secretary to the Government of…
Malian military leader, Gen. Assimi Goïta, at Goulamina mines Mali Inaugurated the largest lithium production mine and factory in Africa, and the fifth in the world, the new “Lithium Mali SA” plant opened its doors in Goulamina, in the Bougouni region of the country. The Goulamina lithium project, a joint venture between Leo lithium and…
At the 66th Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on December 16, in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, intense deliberations by leaders of ECOWAS member-states centred around the announcement by the three military ruled Sahel states, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger Republic,…
Ghana’s newly elected president, John Dramani Mahama. The prospect of a change in economic fortunes looms in Ghana as the country’s opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) celebrates its sweeping victory in the presidential and legislative elections. With former president, John Dramani Mahama, returned for a second and final term in office after losing to the…
Days after Burkina Faso’s military ruler, Capt Ibrahim Traoré, dismissed his Prime Minister, Apollinaire Joachim Kyelem de Tambela, and dissolved the entire government. He has announced the appointment, on December 9, of a new Prime Minister, Rimtalba Jean Emmanuel Ouédraogo, who was formerly the Minister of State for Communication, Culture, Tourism, and the Arts. The…
Nana Kwame Bediako, Alan Kyerematen, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia and John Dramani Mahama The upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections slated for December 7 may turn out to be arguably one of the most hotly contested that Ghana has seen in a while. At the core of the race is the rivalry between the two main…
