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South Africa triggers disaster law, Nigeria’s polls

The declaration of a state of disaster in South Africa’s State of the Nation Address over the deepening energy crisis has grabbed the headlines and, in the small print, there were signs of a meaningful shift away from reliance on the state-owned power monopoly Eskom. Elsewhere, Nigeria’s ruling party is struggling with a raft of bad news – both political and economic.

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