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Nigeria’s cautious leader faces hard choices
The first-term record of Muhammadu Buhari, reelected as president of Nigeria earlier this year, was mixed at best. He made modest headway in curbing corruption and the activities of the Boko Haram terror group, but his statist approach to ruling has not been helpful in Africa’s most populous country, where economic growth lags behind demographic trends. If Nigeria’s ruling class does not find ways to unleash the oil-producing nation’s vast economic potential, political instability there will only increase.
Africa’s stability and growth faces threats from armed militia
Africa’s economy could be transformed with its wealth of natural resources. But weak governments, terrorists and armed militia threaten the stability and development of much of the continent as the impact of North Africa’s Arab Spring reverberates across a wider region THREE major risks face Africa’s stability and develop...
