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Supporters of Gambia’s president, Adama Barrow, sing and dance during a campaign rally in Banjul on November 27, 2021.
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The 2021 presidential election in The Gambia is expected to be peaceful and losing candidates are likely to accept the outcome.
Colonel Mamady Doumbouya (C) and his team of Guinean special forces listen as he holds talks with religious leaders at the People’s Palace in Conakry on September 14, 2021.
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Any recognition of the coup could incentivise future ones. Yet Alpha Condé can’t simply be restored to office, sweeping under the carpet the dubious basis on which he has retained power.
ECOWAS is effectively protecting ousted president Alpha Condé, who manipulated the constitution to run for another term.
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If the Economic Community of West African States is to be a champion for good governance, it should address the root causes of political instability and coups.
Cyril Ramaphosa harnessed the African Union’s COVID-19 response.
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The porous borders of West Africa allow for the unregulated movement of thousands.
A convoy of Malian armed forces escorts the vehicle of the country’s coup leader as he returns from a recent ECOWAS summit where Mali was suspended.
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Mali’s president and prime minister have just been arrested and dismissed by the military junta which brought them to power in the first place a few months ago. How did this happen?
Trade partnerships rarely work in the West African region.
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The sub-region’s approach to free trade agreements, whether in the form of economic partnerships with the EU or regional and continental integration needs a rethink.
Gambians celebrate the departure of former strongman Yahya Jammeh in front of an armoured vehicle manned by West African troops in early 2017.
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President Alassane Ouattara (78) has been blowing hot and cold on whether he’ll be seeking a third term.
A soldier from Niger patrols near the border with Nigeria. Porous borders with Nigeria and Mali are hotbeds for Jihadists and marauding local militias.
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The decision by eight Francophone states to delink their common currency from France won’t be without challenges.
Guinean immigrants living and working in Portugal participate in a demonstration against the political crisis in Guinea-Bissau back in 2012.
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