LEADER COMMENT COVER STORY

Why Africa must come first and foremost Sham elections as terminal throes for a disastrous dispensation

Peace and security: what will the AU prioritise in 2023?

In hindsight, 2022 was a challenging year for stability in Africa, and against this backdrop, the AU played a constructive role, achieving some notable gains, although tangible outcomes remain marginal or susceptible to breakdown, writes Hubert Kinko

Wagner Group poses fundamental challenges for protection of civilians by UN peacekeeping operations

The recent resurgence of activity by private military and security companies in conflict areas comes at a time of unprecedented contestation within the multilateral peace and security architecture in the post-Cold War period, writes Dirk

Druet

Analysis

The reality of independence 60 years on

It is an indisputable fact today that the great majority of Africans have not enjoyed the benefits – the rights, liberties, prosperity and good life – in whose name their freedom from colonial rule was sought, writes

Baba Galleh Jallow

BUSINESS & ECONOMY

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Leveraging international finance centres (IFCs) to support investment flows in Africa

Africa Abroad Review

US-Africa building solidarity one brick at a time

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Since the beginning of March, an initiative to “reclaim and rebuild a grassroots solidarity movement” connecting Africa and the US, has been progressing around America. Nunu Kidane reports

Sixty-five years on - the Bank of Ghana in a nation’s history