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The End of the Western Democracy Project in Africa

Posted By: adminon: March 19, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, Autocratic rule, Deglobalisation, Democracy promotion, Democratic backsliding, ECOWAS, EU, Latin America, People's Republic of China, Russia, the West, West AfricaNo CommentsViews:
The End of the Western Democracy Project in Africa

By Yusuf Bangura The optimism of the 1990s, which saw a massive rollback of autocratic regimes in favour of electoral democracy, has given way to pessimism about democracy’s continued spread... Read more

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President George Weah’s Interim Farewell to Liberia

Posted By: adminon: November 18, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: Ambassador Joseph Boakai, Coalition for Democratic Change, Defeat of incumbent, Electoral democracy, Liberia, West AfricaNo CommentsViews:
President George Weah’s Interim Farewell to Liberia

In a way, it can be called his farewell address to Liberians even as he remains in power till the hand over date. but he is already looking at 2029, thereby saying ‘till then’ The presidenti... Read more

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A Blast from the Past

Posted By: adminon: February 16, 2023In: FlashbackTags: 21st century, Benin, Cameroon, France, Niger, NIGERIA, West Africa1 CommentViews:
A Blast from the Past

Robert Kaplan’s piece, The Coming Anarchy was a hit when it was published in 1994. Of course, it was a classic exercise in imaginative geographies but it was and still is the kind of stuff t... Read more

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Carnegie Foundation Appoints Dr. Gilles Yabi as Fellow for Africa Program

Posted By: adminon: April 06, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: Carnegie Foundation, International Crisis Group, Jeune Afrique, RFI, WATHI, West AfricaNo CommentsViews:
Carnegie Foundation Appoints Dr. Gilles Yabi as Fellow for Africa Program

The Africa program of the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace has announced the addition of Dr. Gilles Yabi to the program. A statement to that effect by Zainab Usman, Director and S... Read more

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A Correct Prediction of Anarchy Or the Complicity of Discourse?

Posted By: adminon: August 04, 2019In: BookspaceTags: "Child of Neccessity", "Worse than Armageddon, Dr. Patrick Wilmot, Esquire magazine, West AfricaNo CommentsViews:
A Correct Prediction of Anarchy Or the Complicity of Discourse?

As massively circulated and highly consumed in the highest level of global power as Robert Kaplan’s The Coming Anarchy, so also was the condemnation. Those who took him to the cleaners argue... Read more

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Watch It, Cameroonian Think Tank Tells Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: January 27, 2018In: FlashbackTags: Africa, Ambazonia, Anglophone, BOKO HARAM, CAR, Cold War, Francophone, ICG, Post Cold War, West AfricaNo CommentsViews:
Watch It, Cameroonian Think Tank Tells Nigeria

A Yaoundé based think tank is cautioning Nigeria on implications for internal security in Nigeria and Cameroon as well as bilateral relations from the handling of Cameroonian separatists bei... Read more

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Africa: Next After the Essential Drugs List

Posted By: adminon: October 26, 2016In: FlashbackTags: Ebola, Johns Hopkins University, Kampala, Michigan, Uganda, West Africa, WHO, Zika virusesNo CommentsViews:
Africa: Next After the Essential Drugs List

Published originally under the title “Africa has an essential medicines list. Now it needs one for diagnostics” in The Conversation, (October 25th, 2016) this piece is being republished here... Read more

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General Aliyu Gusau Opens Up on Boko Haram

Posted By: adminon: August 30, 2016In: FlashbackTags: Australia, BOKO HARAM, CHINA, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, General Aliyu Mohammed Gusau, GWOT, India, Iran, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Pakistan, Red Sea, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Somaliland, South Sudan, Sudan, the EU, Turkey, United States, West Africa, YemenNo CommentsViews:
General Aliyu Gusau Opens Up on Boko Haram

By Adagbo ONOJA General Aliyu Mohammed Gusau, two time National Security Adviser as well as a former Minister of Defence of Nigeria has thrown into question the Islamicist claims of Boko Har... Read more

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