STATECRAFT AFRICA

Ghana’s President John Mahama on Tuesday urged global firms to ramp up crude oil production in the West African nation before the global shift to renewable energy renders the resource worthless. He warned that Ghana risks seeing its oil resources stuck in the ground if drilling is not fast-tracked while demand still exists. Many countries […]

Junta-ruled Guinea is doing “everything” to ensure presidential and parliamentary elections are held in December, Prime Minister Amadou Oury Bah told AFP on Tuesday. The west African country’s junta leader General Mamady Doumbouya has promised that 2025 would be “a crucial electoral year” and has announced a constitutional referendum in September. But no date had […]

At least 100 civilians were killed by Burkina Faso government forces in March near the western town of Solenzo, Human Rights Watch said Monday. According to victim testimony and videos shared on social media gathered by the rights group, the attackers were Burkina Faso special forces and members of a pro-government militia, the Volunteers for […]

Ivory Coast’s main opposition leader, who has been barred from standing in an October presidential vote, said Monday that he was resigning as party leader but would still lead the fight to win the election. Six months before voters choose a new head of state, political tensions are running high in the west African country […]

Mali owes more than $94 million to the entity managing a key hydroelectric dam that also supplies power to Senegal and Mauritania, raising the spectre of more electricity outages for the country. SOGEM, the regional body responsible for running the Manantali Dam and power station, said the funding shortfall threatens its continued operation. It has […]

A Malian transitional government decree on Wednesday mandates the immediate suspension of the activities of all political parties throughout the country until further notice. According to the official text read on national television, the suspension applies not only to formally established political parties, but also to “all political associations and organisations claiming to be political.” […]

Ghana’s central bank will begin overseeing the digital asset space later this year, pending the passage of legislation currently before parliament, Governor Johnson Asiama has revealed. Asiama spoke at the African Leaders and Partners Forum, held in Washington on the sidelines of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)-World Bank Spring Meetings. He pledged the Bank of […]