Africa Briefing - May - June 2022

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The unravelling of multi-party politics

Election violence in Africa has been, invariably, put down to bad political leaders, but Nana K.A. Busia Jr argues that it has been more a case of bad constitutional drafting that has seen the continent backslide into anarchy from the close of the decade, in 1999, when almost three quarters of African countries were under democratic rule with all of them having undergone periodic elections

Two coups that tested ECOWAS’ resolve

With the Guinean military junta announcing on April 30 a 39-month timetable to return the country to civilian rule, Issaka K. Souaré looks at Guinea and Mali, two countries where, he says, the regional body committed some strategic mistakes in trying to deal with the interference of soldiers in politics

Kenyan elections: kingmaker against the kings

Barely four months before voters go to the polls, the political temperature is rising as leading candidates, power barons and interest groups scramble to tie up loose ends before the big day, writes Sylvanus Wekesa

The war in Ukraine and its impact on Africa

In this analysis of selective African countries and regions, Toyin Falola explores the continent’s economic interactions with Russia in particular and Europe in general in the wake of the Russia-Ukraine war

Counting the cost of Europe’s quest to ramp up African gas supplies

European countries are engaged in frantic diplomacy with North African states and other African natural gas producers to secure new gas supply contracts in an increasingly competitive market. At least $50 billion in new pipeline investments may be signed off this year