Africa Intelligence Brief for Tuesday: the continent's feared deadlines came due — South Africa's national shutdown mostly passed in quiet marches, Senegal's senate cleared the path to rewrite the constitution, and tax-collection deadlines fell due in Nigeria and Kenya.

Africa Intelligence Brief for Monday: power was tested across the continent — Burkina Faso severed diplomatic ties with France, Senegal's parliament weighed a constitutional…

Africa Intelligence Brief for Tuesday: the continent's feared deadlines came due — South Africa's national shutdown mostly passed in quiet marches, Senegal's senate cleared the…

Africa Intelligence Brief for Wednesday: the continent opened a new half-year and, in East Africa, a new fiscal year, as fresh budgets took effect. But the sharper current ran…