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Africa Investments 

Liberia, DRC, South Sudan, Chad, provide lessons on promoting resilience in Africa

Elwin Mandowa,
The Independent Development Evaluation (IDEV) unit at the African Development Bank has published two evaluation reports that examine the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency and sustainability of the Bank’s work in transition states, countries where the main development challenge is fragility. The first report analyzed the implementation of the Bank’s 2014-2019 Strategy for Addressing Fragility and Building Resilience in Africa. During the… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

Will Buhari Pick Another Buhari As Successor? By Fredrick Nwabufo

Elwin Mandowa,
Foxy old Buhari. Artful. Deliberate. Unassuming but redoubtable. Principled but unaffected. He guards his mystery. He hardly betrays emotion. He keeps his real intentions secreted in layers and layers of very few inscrutable words – and most times in obfuscating silence. Take his ‘’obliviousness’’ for a lack of presence of mind at your own devastating befuddlement. Buhari knows what he… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

APC And The Hypocrisy Of Governance By Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, SAN

Elwin Mandowa,
All is not well with the government of the All Progressive Congress, APC. The primary purpose of government, as stated in section 14(2) of the Constitution, is the security and welfare of the people, for which the present government has failed woefully. The horrendous experience of the Prelate of the Methodist Church of Nigeria in the hands of kidnappers has… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

Next Governor of Ekiti State By Bunmi Makinwa

Elwin Mandowa,
The campaign season in Nigeria is widely visible, just as are frequent kidnappings, abductions, terrorist attacks, and killings for all kinds of reasons. As in many countries due to a combination of international and local factors, economic problems keep mounting, inflation is high and prices of almost everything are rising. In May 2023, the presidential elections will take place alongside… Read More
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Ghana’s police chief accuses UK envoy of interference

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– – Ghana’s Inspector General of Police (IGP), Dr George Akuffo Dampare, has accused the British High Commissioner to Ghana of interfering in the country’s security matters. It follows the High Commissioner’s tweet over the arrest of a social activist and one of the conveners of the #FixTheCountry movement, Oliver Barker-Vormawor, over a motor offence. In a four-page letter addressed… Read More
Africa Investments 

African Development Bank financing for Kenya roadway boosts local economy and regional integration

Elwin Mandowa,
Kenya is making rapid progress in the construction of its part of the Great Trans-African highway that runs from Cairo in Egypt to South Africa’s Cape Town. The 84km Kenol-Sagana-Marua highway, which runs through central Kenya, is being upgraded from a single lane road to a dual carriageway. It is expected to be completed in six months, two years earlier… Read More
Africa Investments 

Access to clean, piped water offers a paraplegic seamstress in Sierra Leone hope for a brighter future.

Elwin Mandowa,
When Hawa Koroma moved to Kenema in Sierra Leone’s Eastern Province twelve years ago, she was looking for a fresh start following the civil war, which claimed her husband’s life. She could not have imagined how the move to this city 200km from the capital Freetown would change her life. Koroma, a paraplegic and widowed mother of five, arrived in… Read More
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