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  • LiberiaOPINIONTop story

    Young people are the real peacekeepers in Liberia

    By Nyema Richards
    August 18, 2023
    A generation with no memory of the civil war will be voting in October – despite their abiding loss of faith in Liberia’s politicians.  ...
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  • Makeshift embankments in Nigeria.
    ClimateNigeriaTop story

    Nigeria’s coastal communities build flood barriers with mud and sticks

    By Ekpali Saint
    August 16, 2023
    As they continue to wait in vain for state intervention amid rising sea levels, people in Akwa Ibom are taking matters into their own ...
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  • Coup in NigerEditor's PicksNiger

    Niger: The resource politics of a post-colonial revolt

    By Mohamed Kheir Omer
    August 15, 2023
    Françafrique, the opaque independence deal that supplied Africa’s resources to France, is being dismantled one coup at a time. Is Yevgeny Prigozhin the new ...
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  • NigeriaPoliticsTop story

    Tinubu’s cabinet nominees: Renewed hope or recycled tropes?

    By Afolabi Adekaiyaoja
    August 8, 2023
    Tinubu’s cabinet is stacked with political heavyweights: nine ex-governors, several former cabinet ministers and legislators. An indication, perhaps, of growing anxieties about the forthcoming ...
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  • Coup in NigerNigerTop story

    Niger: Will the Sahel survive another coup?

    By Nick Westcott
    July 28, 2023
    An Arab, deposed President Bazoum’s attempts to shuffle his Fulani-dominated Republican Guard, may have triggered the coup. With  French and US troops stationed there, ...
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  • CameroonEconomyNigeriaTop story

    How Nigeria’s fuel subsidy shock jolted Cameroon’s economy

    By Francis Tim Mbom
    July 19, 2023
    In Cameroon, the unintended consequences of Nigeria’s fuel subsidy withdrawal ripple across the beleaguered Anglophone region.  On the night of 29 May, 2019, the ...
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  • NigeriaOPINIONTop story

    Nigeria’s security crisis: Under Tinubu, continuity will lead to calamity

    By Ayo Adedoyin
    July 6, 2023
    President Tinubu’s response to Nigeria’s security crisis so far signals much of the same inaction. Should the UK intervene?  Nigeria may have a new ...
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  • AfrobeatsCultureEditor's PicksNigeria

    Afrobeats: How does the next chapter play out?

    By Brian Too
    June 20, 2023
    Afrobeats rode on its own generated zeitgeist to become a staple of the global cultural marketplace. How does it negotiate a bigger piece of ...
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  • Fmr president Muhammadu Buhari inaugurates the Dangote Refinery. Photo credit: Dangote Industries
    EconomyNigeriaTop story

    Will Dangote’s refinery turn Nigeria’s expensive oil habit into a blessing?

    By Promise Eze
    June 15, 2023
    The opening of the Refinery is the biggest good news story in decades. Is there reason to be nervous about another Dangote monopoly? On ...
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  • University graduates in Nigeria. Credit: Rajmund Dabrowski/ANN.
    ClimateNigeriaSocietyTop story

    Degrees of heat: Northern Nigeria students wilt in climate extremes

    By Abdulganiyu Abdulrahman Akanbi
    June 15, 2023
    What can universities do as a hotter and longer dry season impacts students’ health and performance? When Sayedi Umar Muhammad first enrolled at Usmanu ...
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