2023 was annus horribilis; here’s to a better year
People displaced by the conflict in Sudan gather outside a passport office in the city of Gedaref as they attempt to get passports and exit visas after fleeing Wad Madani, the capital of al-Jazirah state on December 20, 2023. PHOTO | AFP
The year 2023 was bleak for Africa. Countries either experienced violence, coups and coup attempts, economic retrogression or the same old ills of thievery and mismanagement.
In Nigeria, there were bloody clashes between farmers and herders.
