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Libya: Tripoli under siege as Haftar tries to force an endgame
Has Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar overreached in his high-risk military advance on Tripoli? The dominant view is that he has erred politically by throwing everything into an all-or-nothing play for domination, and militarily by underestimating the difficulty of conquering the...
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Libya
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Mozambique: Cyclone Idai poses critical questions on aid, governance, climate change
Any administration would be hard-pressed to cope with Cyclone Idai. For central Mozambique, southern Malawi and eastern Zimbabwe, the catastrophe is piled onto already often poorly served communities and underperforming governments. Even after the most severe storm hit on 14-15...
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Mozambique
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Nigeria to sell down joint venture stakes
Fresh from his re-election victory in February, President Muhammadu Buhari is using the weeks ahead of the official start of his second term in office to signal planned reforms in the oil and gas sector. Topping the agenda is a potential sale by state-owned Nigerian National...
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Nigeria
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South Africa endures more load-shedding as Eskom tariff increase approved
With elections coming up on 8 May, the power crisis in South Africa has peaked at an inconvenient time for President Cyril Ramaphosa. While opposition parties, particularly the Democratic Alliance, are seeking to make political capital out of the catastrophic deterioration in...
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South Africa
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Algerian uncertainty reaches Sonatrach
Further dramatic events took place in Algiers on 26 March, when army chief Lieutenant General Ahmed Gaïd Salah said the constitution’s Article 102 should be invoked to disqualify infirm President Abdelaziz Bouteflika from hanging on in the presidency and another senior power-...
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Algeria
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Elections alone won’t deliver a new Tunisia while economy drifts
Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s announcement that he will not seek a fifth term as Algerian president has once again raised questions of gerontocracy and failed governance in Africa. Tunisian head of state Béji Caïd Essebsi benefits from a degree of popular legitimacy but many citizens...
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Tunisia
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Algeria enters uncertain new phase as disaffected population finds its voice
The announcement that Abdelaziz Bouteflika would not seek a fifth term in the planned 18 April presidential election answered only some critical questions about Algeria’s immediate future. It showed that the ruling factions were not prepared to turn the state’s mighty armoury on...
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Algeria
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