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Will ECOWAS Meet Its 2027 Currency Launch Goal?

In an age of economic blocs and regional integration, currency unions have emerged as powerful instruments to deepen trade, stability and global influence. The European Union’s euro, despite periodic crises,.

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Why 2026 Could Be Africa’s Breakthrough Year for Clean Energy

The global energy transition has reached a pivotal inflection point. In 2025, renewable energy accounted for more than 92 per cent of new electricity generation capacity added worldwide, driven predominantly.

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ECOWAS Summit Outcomes: Sanctions, Single Currency Push & Regional Integration

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) convened its 68th Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government in Abuja in mid-December 2025, at a moment.

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Nigeria Clears Troop Deployment to Benin as Government Foils Coup Plot

A pulse of alarm rippled through West Africa on Sunday, 7 December 2025, when a small group of mutinous soldiers in the Republic of Benin attempted to topple the government.

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Africa’s Childcare System: Progress, Pitfalls, and Future Potential

Across the globe, the care economy has shifted from the periphery of policy discussions to the very centre of economic planning. Childcare is no longer viewed as a mere social.

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Four African States Exit FATF Grey List: Can They Maintain the Reforms?

When the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) announced that Nigeria, South Africa, Mozambique, and Burkina Faso had been removed from its grey list of countries under increased monitoring, it marked.

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Africa’s Gender Parity Journey: How Close Are We to Equality?

Nearly two decades since the World Economic Forum began benchmarking gender parity across the world, the finish line remains stubbornly distant. On average, the world has now bridged 68.8 per.

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End of Francophone Dominance?: Cameroon-China Partnership Impacts African Trade

Not long ago, France stood unchallenged as Cameroon’s biggest trade ally, a relationship steeped in history, politics, and post-colonial interdependence. However, 2025 has upended that order. China has become Cameroon’s.

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Beyond the Coup d’Etat: Rethinking Civil-Military Relations in Africa

Africa’s reputation for coups is a stubborn echo from the late twentieth century, yet the present landscape is more intricate than that label suggests. Since 2020, a cluster of putsches.

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Is Africa at Crossroads on Malaria Innovation?

Burkina Faso’s military government has ordered the immediate suspension of Target Malaria—a Bill Gates-backed research initiative designed to combat malaria through genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes. The government’s directive not only.

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