Eskom declared a power supply emergency during peak demand hours on 20 and 21 February, allowing the utility to compel key energy intensive customers to reduce power consumption by 10%. Although Eskom published a provisional load shedding...
Violent protests have again broken out in Conakry over power cuts as the government struggles to fund badly needed repairs to generation and transmission infrastructure. State utility Electricité de Guinée (EDG) said the latest problems were...
With the World Bank and African Development Bank (AfDB) lining up behind a public/private partnership structure, it seemed possible that the elusive Inga dam development – now promoted by the African Union as a cornerstone of its initiative to...
With Turkey and Qatar at political odds with much of the region, Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani’s visit to Ankara and Istanbul on 14 February was a timely attempt to turn that isolation to their advantage, and firm up an alliance based on a...
Following rumblings about possible sanctions against those trying to obstruct Yemen’s transition, tensions have again flared between President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi and the General People’s Congress (GPC) – the party Hadi belongs to, but which...
The United Nations special rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers delivered a damning verdict on the state of the UAE judiciary, following a 28 January-5 February visit. Gabriela Knaul is not due to present her written report to the...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has issued a downbeat assessment of Iran’s economy and urged wide-ranging reforms, following a visit to Iran earlier this year. A full report is due to be published in late March, but the fund’s interim...
Muscat’s criminal court has sentenced 23 people, including former government officials, to between one and three years for their part in a scandal involving the misappropriation of land in Duqm. According to Omani press reports, on 16 February, a...
Amid rising social tensions and opposition to President Blaise Compaoré’s plans to stand for another term as president, public accounts court senior judge Noumoutié Herbert Traoré has promised that judgements on three long-running cases will soon...
The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland on 4 February said it had examined a criminal complaint filed by the London-based NGO Corruption Watch and Angola’s Associação Mãos Livres regarding a 1990s debt deal between Angola and Russia,...
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