By Kweku Ortsin Introduction and Background THE recent ousting of Blaise Compaoré in a civilian-inspired revolt in Burkina Faso calls into question the fate of West Africa’s two longest-serving heads of state: President Yahya Jammeh of The Gambia and President Faure Gnassingbé of Togo.
MORE than 500 of the city’s pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, private equity firms, and asset managers representing over $265 billion in capital, convened at the Savoy Hotel for The Global African Investment Summit (TGAIS) to review the continent’s most bankable projects in strategic sectors.
