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What African Leaders Must Do to Tackle Illicit Financial Flows

What African Leaders Must Do to Tackle Illicit Financial Flows

Former Tanzanian President, Benjamin William Mkapa, has expressed concern over the state of financing in Africa, highlighting illicit financial flows, among factors, as obstacles to the continent’s economic transformation and development. Mkapa said this, Wednesday, ahead of the African Leadership Forum which starts in Kigali Thursday. The forum is expected to convene former heads of […]

Why Africa Doesn’t Need Strongmen

Why Africa Doesn’t Need Strongmen

Consistent evidence show that when dictators establish themselves over their gullible populations, they rule uninterruptedly by internal opposing forces. With few exceptions, (for example Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi), all dictators drive their nations to economic downfall and over dependency on foreign aid. The wisdom of African strongmen rule in Africa is an utter contradiction with no […]

Why ‘Ailing’ African Leaders Won’t Open Up About Their Health

Why ‘Ailing’ African Leaders Won’t Open Up About Their Health

“African leaders often give the impression that the health of their countries is tied to their own personal health, and what is ailing a leader is often treated as a state secret,” says the Institute for Pan African Thought and Conversation. The past months, and indeed years, have seen speculation mounting over the health of […]

If I Was an African President, I Wouldn’t Quit Power Either

If I Was an African President, I Wouldn’t Quit Power Either

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 Sassou Nguesso, Republic of the Congo; Paul Biya, Cameroon; Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe; Jose Eduardo Dos Santos, Angola; Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasongo, Equatorial Guinea. I am writing […]

At 93 President Mugabe sets Youth League rallies in motion

At 93 President Mugabe sets Youth League rallies in motion

ZANU-PF Youth League secretary Cde Kudzanayi Chipanga has warned other party members that the youths’ meeting with President Mugabe in Mashonaland East province today is not a platform to settle personal scores. President Mugabe sets in motion his provincial interactive meetings with the youths this morning in the province, where he is expected to get […]

President Robert Mugabe’s nephew Patrick Zhuwao strikes again

President Robert Mugabe’s nephew Patrick Zhuwao strikes again

President Robert Mugabe’s nephew Patrick Zhuwao says no leader in Zanu PF is fit to succeed the 93-year-old ruler in yet another pointed attack on Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Mnangagwa is seen in some quarters as the frontrunner to succeed Mugabe, whose increasing fraility has cast doubts about his ability to stand for another term. Mugabe […]

What is Grace Mugabe’s Greatest Fear?

What is Grace Mugabe’s Greatest Fear?

Leader of Zanu-PF women’s wing and First Lady Grace Mugabe, could be elevated to the cabinet of her husband, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, in order to give her some political strength. Institute for Security Studies consultant Derek Matyszak told a seminar in Pretoria on Tuesday that Grace was concerned about her future after her husband […]

What You Need to Know Before Reporting on Mugabe

What You Need to Know Before Reporting on Mugabe

Robert Mugabe is still one of the hottest news stories on the African continent – and as he gets older that’s unlikely to change. His health (or lack of it), his glamorous wife Grace and his pronouncements on sanctions and elections: if you’re looking for clicks, Mugabe is your man. But the Zimbabwe and Mugabe […]

African Leaders have arrived in Johannesburg for the African Union assembly

African Leaders have arrived in Johannesburg for the African Union assembly

Heads of state and government leaders from the African Union’s 54 member states have arrived in Johannesburg ahead of the continental body’s assembly on Sunday and Monday. The dignitaries have been jetting into Waterkloof Air Force base and Lanseria Airport since Friday as formal proceedings kicked off in earnest on Saturday morning following a week […]

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