Whoever is behind the prison breaks, these incidents signal that Nigeria’s authorities are struggling to maintain the rule of law, not just in the far northeast, but also in the Middle Belt and the southwest.
Author: Alex Thurston
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Last month, protests led to the swift fall of Burkina Faso’s President Blaise Compaoré after twenty-seven years in power. What echoes, if any, will Burkina Faso’s protests have elsewhere in Africa, particularly in countries with long-serving rulers?Chad is one country to watch. On November 11, hundreds of protesters demonstrated in Chad’s three largest cities–the capital […]
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Even after the Ebola outbreak ends, West Africa will be grappling with the economic and political effects for years to come, and it does not appear that West African leaders or their international partners are preparing for that.
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From stolen flood relief funds in Niger to the complicity of local government officials in Mali’s drug trade, corruption is a major problem in the Sahel.