Ghana’s cedi will become the low-performing currency against the dollar in 2022, with inflation reaching a 21-year high of 40% and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) granting $3 billion in loan relief. rice field.
For decades, West African nations have demanded the return of artefacts looted by former colonial powers. This year, the US, Germany and the UK have started doing this. The Horniman Museum in London also agreed to return 72 of his bronzes stolen during the sacking of the former Benin Empire in 1897.
Thousands of homes have been destroyed in Nigeria, another 1.3 million people have been displaced and more than 600 people have died.
Climate change has also caused flooding of many croplands from Nigeria to Chad, exacerbating the region’s worrying food insecurity.
Senegal has reached a peace deal with the Casamance rebel group in what is effectively Africa’s longest-running conflict since 1982. Some of Chad’s many rebel groups have also joined the dialogue made possible after decades of unrest and struggle over the Doha energy.
Benin and Togo have witnessed a series of attacks by armed groups, raising fears that violence will spread from the Sahel to the West African coast. Ghanaian President Nana Akufo Addo has accused Burkina Faso of paying Russian mercenaries for mining rights and warned the violence could “spread” into West Africa.
In June 2022, suspected members of the Islamic State of West Africa (ISWAP) province killed at least 50 people during Catholic services in relatively peaceful southwestern Nigeria, leading to global condemnation.
Analysts say the incident represents a worrying spread of terrorism in a country that appears unable to protect critical infrastructure, as demonstrated by an attack on a train just outside the city of Kaduna in March.