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A Chance to Consolidate by Ebenezer Obadare. Council on Foreign Relations, March 1, 2023.
The just concluded Nigerian election will not pass the test of purity. It was marked by numerous irregularities, including the late arrival of polling material at polling stations, frustrating technical hitches, and scattered incidents of violence, among them numerous cases of voter intimidation by party agents and random miscreants. Evidence suggests that these logistical hiccups and scattered acts of lawlessness were more or less national.

Africa’s average GDP growth to stabilize in 2023-204, despite recent headwinds, — African Development Bank new report. March 1, 2023.
African economies remain resilient with a stable outlook in 2023-2024, despite the tightening global financial conditions, the African Development Bank has projected in a new report.

Eight Priorities for the African Union in 2023, briefing by the International Crisis Group, February 14, 2023.
The 2023 African Union (AU) heads of state summit will take place at an especially delicate moment for the continent. The past two years have brought deadly internationalized civil wars in Ethiopia and the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The situation in the central Sahel shows no sign of improving, with armed groups destabilizing swathes of it and seeking footholds elsewhere.

Jimmy Carter: the American president whose commitment to Africa went beyond his term by John J. Stremlau. The Conversation, February 27, 2023.
Africa remains the region of the Carter Centre’s biggest and most enduring commitments, under its motivating slogan “Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope”. According to the 2021 financial report, the center’s annual fundraising campaign raises about US$300 million annually. It now operates with a core staff in Atlanta of about 230 and field staff, mostly in Africa, of some 3,100. The center also has an endowment fund of over US$1 billion.

What should be the top priority for Africa in 2023? by Aloysius Uche Ordu. The Brookings Institution, January 27, 2023.
Yet, time and time again—as we have seen with the Ebola crisis, HIV/AIDS crisis, and now the COVID-19 pandemic—Africa has proved resilient. We must be conscious of the danger of a single story—especially as many African countries will continue to fare well, despite the odds.