Wages have become the top issue for Nigeria’s organised labour movements in the past year. Reacting to recent increases in the cost of living, the labour movement has been calling for an…
Election management bodies are essential democratic institutions. To deliver national polls effectively, they need to be properly resourced, impartial and free from government or malicious interference. Independent election bodies established in the 1990s played…
Since the 1980s, migration has been a part of the Nigerian middle-class psyche, catalysed by the usual suspects: high unemployment, security concerns, infrastructure gaps, and poor governance. Migrants tends to be middle-class…
Recent events in Africa are weakening ECOWAS, providing a foothold for Russian influence, and risking an escalation in Somalia. Editor’s Note: Africa has long suffered from outside meddling, resulting in calls for “African…
In 1969, the recently independent Republic of Congo discovered an enormous oil field off its coast. The find represented both a rare opportunity for the burgeoning nation, and a potential threat –…
Food security and climate action are intrinsically linked. The upcoming Spring Meetings offer an opportunity to address the two together. In April, hundreds of leaders from the World Bank, the International Monetary…
A year into the civil war, the humanitarian crisis is only worsening. Editor’s Note: The war and humanitarian crisis in Sudan does not receive the attention given to Gaza and Ukraine, but the…
Under a crystal chandelier in a hall where the first Geneva Convention was signed in the mid-19th century, representatives of two armed groups in Congo signed solemn pledges this week to both…
Former South African President Jacob Zuma is not eligible to run in upcoming elections, the Independent Electoral Commission has ruled. The commission said at a media briefing on Thursday that it had…
It has been more than 60 years since Ghana’s first post-independence leader Kwame Nkrumah first mooted the idea that Ghana should produce aluminium from the country’s ample supply of bauxite. Under the…
