Amid rising tensions and internal wrangling, governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are converging in Ibadan, Oyo State, for a high-stakes meeting aimed at salvaging Nigeria’s leading opposition party from what many insiders describe as “creeping disintegration.” The two-day meeting, which began on Sunday and continues into Monday, is expected…
Nigerian human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore, has accused prosecutors from the office of the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, of hijacking proceedings at the Federal High Court in Abuja and taking over the authority of presiding judge, Justice Musa Suleiman Liman. In a video posted Monday morning on Sowore’s X handle and…
Gabon’s military leader Brice Oligui Nguema has won the country’s presidential election by an apparent landslide, according to provisional results. The Interior Ministry said on Sunday, April 13, that Nguema, who led a 2023 military coup, had secured about 90 percent of the vote. His main rival, Alain Claude Bilie-By-Nze, had won about three percent of Saturday’s…
Image by Markus Spiske. Most of us can remember at least a few troubling scenes from George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984: the mandatory love demanded for the spectral dictator Big Brother; the malleability of facts at the Ministry of Truth; or the ruling party’s memorably grim slogans, “War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery.” But for me, the most…
The High Islamic Council of Mali (HCIM) has urged both Bamako and Algiers to resume dialogue and restore trust, amid escalating diplomatic tensions between the two countries. The appeal comes after Algeria shot down a Malian drone near the border on the night of March 31 to April 1—a move Mali described as “deliberate aggression.”…
