NOVEMBER- DECEMBER 2021

Contents Vol.4
No.17 November - December 2021
LEADER
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Corruption and the violation
of human rights
COMMENT
07
Removing Hamdok from
power in Sudan is a serious
mistake
COVER STORY
10
Forced displacement: a
global cause for concern
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Amid the challenges facing the world today, humanity has not
paid sufficient attention to the plight and suffering of millions
of people forcibly uprooted from their homes and countries, as
conflicts continue to be the main source of forced displacement
around the world, argues Adama Dieng
ANALYSIS
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Coup in Guinea more than an act against
controversial change of Constitution
The making of African dictatorships
BUSINESS & ECONOMY
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The cause-effect pattern that has been used to explain
the recent intervention of the country’s armed forces
is not simply linked to the trigger – an unpopular
constitutional amendment – but more to long-standing
political and socio-economic failings, writes
Albert Mbiatem
Whatever the speculations as to the consequence of Yahya
Jammeh’s return to The Gambia might be, it is, without
doubt, a reinforcement of the position of dictators in
Africa, argues Toyin Falola
Traditional banks can still gain an edge
in fintech transformation
The latest report in CR2’s Market Insight series discusses
how Africa represents a massive market that is providing
opportunity for investors to bring large segments of the
continent’s unbanked online, Jon Offei-Ansah reports
Ecowas begins reforms for improved
trade, regional levy mobilisation
The West African bloc has begun a process to
comprehensively overhaul sub-regional trade-related rules
and regulations to engender improved intra-community
trade and regional levy for the subregional body, Koku
Devitor reports from Accra
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ENVIRONMENT
Africa’s Great Green Wall gives
41 viable return on investments,
FAO-led study finds
Cost-benefit analysis published in Nature
Sustainability shows average return of $1.2
for every $1.00 invested in the land restoration
project, despite harsh climatic conditions