Uber's fourth African market exit in a year exposes a business model that never fit two of the continent's toughest ride-hailing economies, and opens a contest local builders can win.
Behind closed-door agreements, African governments are trading migration cooperation for cash, visa relief and political cover, while Ghana has repeatedly sent protected deportees home anyway.
President Hakainde Hichilema won a second term decisively, but a fatal raid, a dead former minister and a looming court fight have turned a low-profile vote into one of the region's most closely watched political stories.
After 44 years in power, Biya has presided over a weak economy, corruption at the top of government, and the dismantling of nearly every institution meant to hold him accountable. His latest absence is testing what remains.
Despite an unreliable government, Nigerians never wait for permission wherever they land. The result: a people who make a global impact in every sector they enter.
A documented record of non-enforcement, from South Africa's Afrophobia crisis to Rwanda's proxy war in Congo to Cameroon's entrenched presidency, raises the question of whether a continental body built to hold leaders accountable can ever hold its own members accountable.
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