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Nigeria: The impunity of Tinubu’s war on the media
The Tinubu administration took off where Buhari left: arbitrary arrests of journalists, indefinite detentions and even alleged executions. The logic of it defies reason ... -
Photo essay: Tracing the secret, complex life of e-waste in Ghana
62 million tons. This is the volume of electrical and electronic waste – or “e-waste” – generated worldwide in 2022, according to the latest ... -
Nigeria: One year later, Tinubu struggles with the economic question
Digging the country out of the hole it fell into during the Buhari years required an ingenuity never made available under Tinubu’s economic shock ... -
Tinubu’s Nigeria: A year at the edge of the abyss
University students are among those hit hardest by the Tinubu administration’s IMF-directed austerity programme. Ajadi Sodiq, an undergraduate at the University of Ibadan, receives ... -
Will Liberia’s Joseph Boakai come out as a pillar of justice or a beacon of the establishment?
Establishing the War and Economic Crimes Court was among Candidate Boakai strongest campaign pledges. As president, it is his most vexing duty. In January ... -
When is a policy not a policy? The curious case of the hollow JET-P
If Just Energy Transition Partnerships don’t serve the interests of developing countries or the West, whose purposes do they serve? If something looks like ... -
Interview with Sierra Leone’s Climate Minister: “1.5C? We’re already there”
Jiwoh Abulai, Environment and Climate Change Minister of Sierra Leone talks 30×30, land rights, carbon credits, climate finance, and more. You’ve recently come out ... -
Why women struggle to take climate cases to court and how to correct it
A study in Nigeria and South Africa suggests three key ways women’s access to climate justice can be enhanced. Across domestic courts in Africa, ... -
Senegal’s democracy is in peril
The looming danger of democratic collapse is a challenge to friends of Senegal and democracy to do better. The sudden actions by Senegal’s president ... -
Mali: Defiant and alone, will the junta defeat the jihadis?
Revolting against the French, expelling a UN force and walking out of ECOWAS, the Assimi Goita junta is taking out its frustrations with the ...
