Latest news - top stories

Liberia power map-cropped

Boakai promises to increase Liberians’ electricity access amid further loadshedding

Electricity sector reform is high among new Liberian President Joseph Nyuma Boakai’s much-trailed ‘100 day deliverables’, but the challenges of delivering improved services remain enormous in an industry still impacted by years of mismanagement and graft. State utility LEC has improved its performance, funding for new interconnections offers hope of more imports and there are rumours that a powership could provide short-term supply, writes Marc Howard.

Issue 504 - 16 April 2024

Pin Liberia

Pin Power

Latest Views - Free

Sudan oil map centred on Khartoum

Sudan faces long-term political fracture, human catastrophe as civil war enters year two

Sudan may be on the verge of a de facto split, its infrastructure is in ruins and populations are struggling to survive a global-scale humanitarian crisis, but there is little incentive for either side to back down one year after militia leader Hemedti launched his RSF’s campaign against erstwhile ally the Sudan Armed Forces regime. While attention is focused on conflicts elsewhere, a major African country is being destroyed for personal advantage in a conflict marked by significant intervention from the wider region.

Issue 503 - 07 April 2024

Pin Sudan

Pin Strategy & risk

Latest headlines