As the West African regional body celebrates 40 years in May, The Africa Report looks at integration on the ground and what the next four decade could hold. The years is 2055, and the region formerly known as West Africa is now the beating heart of greater Afro-Mediterranean trade bloc. The President of the bloc …
Some African leaders with 20 years in power, from top left to bottom right: Omar al – Bashir, Sudan; Idress Deby Itno, Chad; Yoweri Museveni, Uganda; King Mswati III, Swaziland; Denis Sassous Ngueso, Repulic of the Congo; Paul Biya, Cameroon; Robert Mugabe, Zambabwe, Jose Eduardo Dos Santos, Angola; Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasongo, Equatorial Guinea. The …
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Former Chief Economic Adviser to former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Chief Philip Asiodu has attributed the economic challenges facing the country to lack of articulated and clear long term vision on the part of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration. Asiodu described Buhari as a man with impeccable personal credentials for probity elected on the promise of …
