Policy & Governance

Budgets, central bank decisions, and the governance reforms shaping African economies.

Malawi Bets on Power, Digital Access and Agriculture to Chart a New Growth Path

With agriculture supporting over 80 percent of rural households and a $250 million grant funding 235,000 new power connections, officials are framing modernization, not aid dependency, as the country's route forward.

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Navi Pillay, South Africa's First Female Nobel Peace Laureate, on Defending the Rule of Law

The jurist and former UN human rights chief told Forbes Africa she received the news at a conference in Nuremberg, and used the honor to call for people everywhere to stand behind independent courts and an international legal order built on principle.

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Uganda Weighs Moving Its Capital as Kampala's Congestion Hits a Breaking Point

A minister called the city 'unlivable, unchangeable and untenable' and floated relocating administrative functions elsewhere, even as officials pour $3 billion into fixing the roads and drainage choking Uganda's economic engine instead.

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Business professionals analyzing financial charts and reports on a digital tablet during a late-night meeting

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Kenya's New Digital Currency Rules Hand the Central Bank Sweeping Stablecoin Powers

The central bank can now restrict access to dollar-backed stablecoins like USDT and USDC, a move one fintech executive warns could fragment cross-border payments and cut off local businesses from global liquidity.

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State Police Bill Clears 13 State Assemblies, Still Short of the 24 Needed

Kwara, Taraba, Nasarawa, Ogun, Delta, Cross River, Plateau and Enugu are among the latest to back the constitutional amendment, as a presidential working group submits the full draft legislation for review.

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Nigeria Activates Emergency Response After First Ebola Case in 12 Years

Authorities are tracing 44 contacts of a woman who flew in from Uganda and tested positive in Abuja, as airports and hospitals nationwide are put on high alert for suspected cases.

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Elder statesman Pa Reuben Fasoranti seated in traditional attire at a public event

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Nigeria Mourns Afenifere Elder Fasoranti as 'Enduring Symbol' of Democracy

Interior Minister Tunji-Ojo led tributes to Pa Reuben Fasoranti, who died at 100 in Akure, recalling a century built on advocacy for true federalism, Yoruba identity and national unity.

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Touadera Wins Third Term as Central African Republic President With Nearly 78% of Vote

The Constitutional Council confirmed the incumbent's outright majority after a December election marred by an opposition boycott and condemnation from critics who say a 2023 referendum simply erased the country's term limits.

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Ramaphosa Leads African Condemnation of US Operation That Seized Venezuela's Maduro

South Africa's president called for Maduro's immediate release and urged the UN to enforce the principles of sovereignty and non-interference, as several other African governments voiced similar concerns over the precedent set.

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Ghana's former Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta smiling while seated at a podium with a microphone

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Ghana's Ex-Finance Minister Ofori-Atta Detained in US as Extradition Request Moves Forward

Accra has formally asked Washington to extradite Ken Ofori-Atta to face 78 corruption-related charges, after US immigration authorities took him into custody while he was in the country for medical treatment.

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Uganda Votes Under Internet Blackout as Biometric Failures Delay Polls

Voting stations across the country opened hours late after voter-verification machines malfunctioned, a problem rumored to be linked to a government-ordered internet shutdown the UN human rights office called 'deeply worrying.'

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Bobi Wine Cut Off From Communications as Uganda's Vote Count Drags On

Security personnel scaled the wall of his residence and seized phones, his party says, as the opposition leader lost contact with the outside world while Museveni was declared headed for a seventh term.

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Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine raising a fist while seated in a chair marked 'People Power'

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Uganda's Bobi Wine Says Soldiers Assaulted and Hospitalized His Wife

The opposition leader, in hiding since a disputed January election, says soldiers raided his home, held his wife at gunpoint and strangled her while demanding to know his whereabouts; the military denies the account.

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AU Installs Burundi's President as 2026 Chair, Puts Water Security at Center of Agenda

Evariste Ndayishimiye took over the rotating chairmanship at the Addis Ababa summit under a theme focused on water and sanitation, an emphasis Nigerian officials say speaks directly to the country's own struggles with potable water access.

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ECOWAS Women Lawmakers' Group Says It's Kept in the Dark on Its Own Budget

ECOFEPA's leadership, including its newly elected president, says it cannot account for the association's annual funds because the administrative department controlling the account never shares spending details with elected members.

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Kenyan President William Ruto walking alongside another official at a conference venue

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Kenya's Ruto Says African Union 'Not Fit for Purpose,' Pushes for Overhaul

Tasked by fellow heads of state with reviewing the bloc's institutions, President William Ruto says slow decision-making and weak coordination leave the AU unable to meet Africa's security and economic challenges.

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ECOWAS Court Goes Digital With New Electronic Case Management System

The Community Court of Justice says the new platform will let lawyers file cases, track proceedings and attend virtual hearings online, part of a push toward a fully digital judicial institution by 2030.

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South Africa Rejects Nigeria's Bid for Compensation Over Xenophobic Attacks

Pretoria says it won't pay for property Nigerians left behind when they fled xenophobic violence, arguing informal-settlement structures were never legally recognized in the first place.

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ECOWAS Parliament officials seated on a panel during a session in Accra

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ECOWAS Parliament Calls Climate Change a 'Security Time Bomb' for West Africa

Lawmakers meeting in Accra warned that shrinking water resources and degraded farmland are already fueling land conflict and displacement, and adopted resolutions urging ECOWAS leaders to set up a dedicated regional climate resilience fund.

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New Wave of Nigerian Deaths in South Africa Deepens Diplomatic Strain

At least a dozen Nigerians have been killed in South Africa since the start of the year amid a renewed spike in xenophobic violence, reviving pressure on Abuja to take a harder line with Pretoria over the safety of its citizens.

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ECOWAS's Third Deputy Speaker Steps Down as Ghana Delegation Leader, Urges Parliament to Stay Close to Citizens

Alexander Afenyo-Markin handed Ghana's delegation leadership to George Ricketts-Hagan in Accra, while remaining Third Deputy Speaker, and argued regional integration has to be felt in ordinary people's daily lives to mean anything.

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Sudanese military and government officials seated together during a formal meeting

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Revived Saudi-Sudan Maritime Border Talks Draw Sovereignty Objections

Critics say Sudan's military leadership lacks the constitutional mandate to finalize a binding Red Sea boundary agreement while the country has no elected parliament to ratify it.

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ECOWAS Lawmaker Links Climate Change to West Africa's Rising Displacement and Insecurity

Dr. Suleiman Gumi told a parliamentary seminar in Accra that shrinking grazing land is pushing herders into farming communities, and called for investment in ranching and climate adaptation to ease the resulting conflict.

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ECOWAS Court Swears in Five New Judges for Four-Year Term

President Bassirou Diomaye Faye administered the oath in Abuja to judges from Benin, The Gambia, Liberia, Nigeria and Togo, and urged them to guard the regional court's independence and public standing.

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Armed fighters riding atop a truck, one waving a Sudanese flag

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Sudan's Army Says It Repelled a Major RSF-SPLM-N Assault in Blue Nile

The military says its 4th Infantry Division and allied forces beat back an attempt to breach their positions in the region's Kurmuk area, destroying vehicles and inflicting heavy losses on the attacking coalition.

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Burkina Faso Rewrites School Curriculum to Strip Out Colonial-Era Framing

The junta-led government is overhauling history, geography and civic classes, swapping terms like 'explorers' for 'invaders' and adding dozens of new lessons centered on African resistance movements and indigenous political structures.

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Uganda Pushes Back on Ebola Outbreak Claims After Nigeria Confirms Imported Case

Kampala says a traveler testing positive in Abuja doesn't prove the infection was caught on Ugandan soil, even as Nigeria's health ministry confirms its first case of the Bundibugyo strain in a woman who had recently passed through East Africa.

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Defendants standing under guard during a court session in the Shakahola starvation cult case in Kenya

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Kenyan Court Convicts Self-Proclaimed Pastor Over 191 Starvation Deaths in Shakahola

Paul Mackenzie and several associates were found guilty of murder after a court ruled they orchestrated an organized starvation campaign among followers of a doomsday sect, most of the victims children.

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Ebonyi Political Leaders Rally Behind Zoning Formula, Back Governor for Second Term

A stakeholders' summit in Abakaliki endorsed Governor Francis Nwifuru for 2027 and laid out a rotation plan that would hand the governorship to Ebonyi Central in 2031 and Ebonyi South in 2039.

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Jerry Gana Says Selfish Leadership, Not Lack of Ideas, Is Holding Nigeria Back

The former federal minister told a Abuja lecture that Nigeria's development crisis traces back to leaders who have drifted from the people they govern, and that the fix is a genuine return to accountable, people-first governance rather than another awareness campaign.

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Portrait of a former Liberian government minister seated at a conference table

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Liberia Convicts Two Former Weah-Era Ministers in $425,000 Rice Diversion Case

A jury found the former foreign affairs and internal affairs ministers guilty over more than 25,000 bags of disaster-relief rice that never reached the people it was donated for.

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Macky Sall Drops Out of Race to Lead the United Nations

The former Senegalese president stepped aside after an informal Security Council vote pointed toward a candidate from Latin America and the Caribbean, saying he wants to help build consensus rather than prolong the contest.

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Nigeria's ADC Warns Tinubu Could Unveil Fuel Tax After 2027 Re-Election Bid

The opposition African Democratic Congress says the legal groundwork for a five percent fuel levy is already in place, and accuses the government of waiting for a second term before switching it on.

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