The post 1990 return of democracy in Africa skipped many countries that had established successful dictatorships that stood firm. In Equatorial Guinea, the 82 years old dictator, Teodoro Obiang Nguema...
Again, Trump’s Way or the Highway, By Azu Ishiekwene It’s hard not to love US President Donald Trump. He is the world’s most powerful president and wears his preeminence on his sleeve. Not for him the...
President Bola Tinubu will depart Abuja on Sunday for Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, to participate in the Africa Heads of State Energy Summit on January 27-28, 2025. Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to ...
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has just launched the bold and ambitious “timbuktoo” initiative together with African countries. In a special session of the World Economic Forum at its...
African countries have continued to contend with under-development; many try to snake out of the situation, which is directly linked to leadership failure and p...
…Prof. Owasanoye Backs Call For Inclusive Global Tax System African countries have called for an equitable and inclusive global tax system by the United Nations. The continent stated that a new Framew...
The just-concluded Africa Investment Forum (AIF): Africa’s Investment Market Place with the theme, “Unlocking Africa’s Value Chains,” took place between November 8 and 10, 2023, at Marrakesh, Morocco....
I am delighted to be part of the 2023 annual lecture series of the Society for International Relations Awareness (as a discussant) put together by its highly resourceful and energetic President, Comra...
In the past three years, at least eight African countries have witnessed military coup d’états. This is coming when it was thought that Africa’s democracy had come of age when we were beginning to thi...
The coup in Gabon this week is most unlikely to be a regime change. Gen Brice Nguema, the head of the junta is a relation of the Bongo family and started his career as bodyguard to Omar Bongo, the fat...
