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Muhammadu Buhari rode into power on a wave of goodwill – but Nigeria’s troubles just won’t go away.
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Technocrats across the African continent are battling to change the direction of corrupt, violent governments
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While South Africa voted to chasten the ANC, Zambians endured an election campaign filled with abuse and claims to Godliness.
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Robert Mugabe’s indigenisation laws demand that companies operating in Zimbabwe transfer most of their capital into local hands.
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A new generation of angry young South Africans seem to have forgotten what made the liberation struggle work.
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Once two of the African continent’s most optimistic countries, Zambia and South Africa have sunk to new lows.
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African elections and referendums are still a heady mixture of the graceful and the shameless.
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Uganda’s president has ruled for three decades – and the opposition is getting stagnant too.
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South Africa’s president is direly unpopular and his government on the ropes – but protests against him are just empty symbolism.
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Months after an inconclusive election, Croatia has at last picked an almost unknown figure to be its new prime minister: Tihomir Orešković, chief financial officer of a Canadian generic pharmaceutical…