Horman Chitonge

Debt relief in Zambia has proven to be complex and elusive over the past four years, with the economy held hostage to a long-drawn out process. This failure exemplifies the woefully inadequate nature of the international financial architecture, under which many African countries have experienced several debt crises. As of July 2024, 22 African countries were either in or at a high risk of debt distress, unable to fulfill their financial obligations and in need of debt restructuring.

Summary On December 7, 2024, voters in Ghana will head to the polls to elect a new president and 276 legislators, the ninth such election since the West African nation transitioned to democratic rule in January 1993. While the Electoral Commission has qualified 12 candidates to be on the presidential ballot, in reality the election is a race between the candidates of the country’s two rival parties, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP).

This article is a part of a series of special thought pieces published by APRI in collaboration with the Deutsche Afrika Stiftung e.V. Summary Although Africa (African Union, AU) and Europe (European Union, EU) have been interacting for centuries, a formal relationship between the two continents was only begun in the early 1970s with the signing of the Lome Convention.1 The main focus of the AU-EU interactions has been trade and aid and, more recently, climate change and migration.