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Islam will play growing political role in West Africa

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WEST AFRICA

However, although the relationship between Islam and politics in the Sahel is changing, its prospects reflect local and national environments. The growing and multidirectional…

Equatorial Guinea’s Obiang will further stifle dissent

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EQUATORIAL GUINEA

While there is scepticism over the government’s figures, officially recorded deaths are low at 51. However, all sectors of the economy have been negatively impacted -- most…

Graft claims will dog Congo’s old and new presidents

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CONGO-KINSHASA

The investigations were based upon some 3.5 million leaked confidential bank files, which together document the apparent misappropriation of at least USD138mn in public funds by…

Election dispute belies Togo's deeper stability risks

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TOGO

The political outlook in Togo.

Tanzania will resist pressure over social conservatism

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TANZANIA

Social conservatism in Tanzania.

Congo's Kabila will try to revive his political base

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CONGO-KINSHASA

Congo's political outlook.

Zimbabwean transition faces competing power centres

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ZIMBABWE

The military intervention, which the army insists is not a 'coup', followed a week after Mugabe controversially dismissed Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa after allegations by…

South Africa's Ramaphosa will struggle to reform ANC

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SOUTH AFRICA

The intervention by new President Cyril Ramaphosa's follows recent debilitating public protests and public-sector strikes. Demonstrators have demanded the resignation of embattled…

South Africa's ANC factionalisation will hasten

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SOUTH AFRICA

Khoza has openly called on ANC MPs to vote against President Jacob Zuma in a parliamentary motion of no confidence scheduled for August 8. Despite many ANC members privately…

South Africa's Mboweni will aid Ramaphosa reform push

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SOUTH AFRICA

A former South African Reserve Bank (SARB) governor and minister of labour, Mboweni faces a crucial first few weeks in his new post as the government attempts to placate rating…