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  • Thursday, 15 August, 2024
    Wamkele Mene
    Helping to create a single integrated market across Africa is in the west’s interests

    A lack of jobs and opportunity at home is driving the flow of migrants from the continent

    Containers stacked on a dock at the Port of Cape Town
  • Thursday, 15 August, 2024
    Nigeria
    Nigerian jets ordered to be seized in Chinese company dispute

    Judgment is latest arbitration effort by a foreign group alleging that the African nation reneged on an agreement

    A Nigerian Air Force Dassault Falcon 7X
  • Thursday, 15 August, 2024
    Paul Collier
    Economic reforms are tempting finance back to Ethiopia and Zambia

    Pockets of the African continent have found ways of giving new confidence to investors and the World Bank and IMF

    People stand at a bus station in Lusaka, Zambia
  • Thursday, 15 August, 2024
    Visual investigation
    The European boats fishing under a veil of secrecy

    EU vessels are registering with African fleets and exploiting local fishing laws

  • Wednesday, 14 August, 2024
    Mpox
    WHO declares mpox public health emergency as cases surge in Africa

    Global health body calls for action to tackle ‘very worrying’ outbreak of highly transmissible virus

    Montage of various viruses
  • Tuesday, 13 August, 2024
    South African politics
    Johannesburg mayor quits after turbulent 15 months in charge

    Resignation exacerbates leadership crisis for South African city run by eight mayors since 2019

    Kabelo Gwamanda talking to journalists
  • Tuesday, 13 August, 2024
    South African politics
    Signs of stability from South Africa’s unity government boost business confidence

    Coalition’s relatively smooth start raises hopes that the two main parties can work together in the longer term

    John Steenhuisen
  • Friday, 9 August, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    US, Egypt and Qatar in urgent push to secure Israel-Hamas ceasefire

    Leaders of three countries set August 15 date for resumption of talks over Gaza war

    Palestinians check the damage in the al-Zahra school used as a refuge by displaced Palestinians following an Israeli strike in Gaza City
  • Friday, 9 August, 2024
    Paris Olympics
    Botswana celebrates first ever gold as Tebogo wins Olympic sprint

    Sub-Saharan nation declares a public holiday after its star athlete beats favourite Noah Lyles to win 200m

  • Thursday, 8 August, 2024
    Mozambique
    Mozambique’s former finance minister convicted in $2bn ‘tuna bonds’ case

    Manuel Chang was accused of taking $7mn in bribes in scandal linked to loans from Credit Suisse and VTB Capital

    Manuel Chang at an extradition hearing in Johannesburg in 2019
  • Thursday, 8 August, 2024
    David Pilling
    War in Sudan is being fuelled by a web of external actors

    The conflict that has displaced 10mn people is made more intractable by proxy players and tangled objectives

    People line up to register for a potential food aid delivery at a camp for internally displaced persons (IDP) in Agari, South Kordofan, Sudan.
  • Wednesday, 7 August, 2024
    Niger
    Niger joins Mali in severing diplomatic ties with Ukraine

    Dispute over whether Kyiv provided support for rebels behind attack that killed Malian soldiers and Wagner mercenaries

    Niger leader General Abdourahmane Tchiani at a stadium in Niamey on July 26 2024
  • Monday, 5 August, 2024
    ReviewTheatre
    The Outrun, Edinburgh — a mercurial journey through addiction

    Isis Hainsworth’s performance makes the adaptation of Amy Liptrot’s memoir soar

    A man and a woman in casual clothes recline talking
  • Sunday, 4 August, 2024
    Nigeria
    Nigerian president calls for end to protests

    A dozen people have been killed in four days of unrest over soaring inflation

    Nigerian security forces patrol the streets of Lagos
  • Friday, 2 August, 2024
    Nigeria
    Nigerians take to the streets for second day of nationwide protests

    More than a dozen killed as security forces fire on demonstrators inspired by youth-led Kenyan revolt

    Security forces fire tear gas to disperse protesters in Lagos, Nigeria on August 1 2024
  • Thursday, 1 August, 2024
    ReviewFilm
    A Story of Bones — documentary unearths brutal realities of the slave trade

    The discovery of human remains on the island of Saint Helena is the subject of a gripping, thought-provoking film

    A woman in a hi-viz jacket looks contemplative as she stands on a hillside
  • Thursday, 1 August, 2024
    Oil31 min
    Nigeria's struggle to break the 'oil curse' | FT Film

    Can the new $20bn Dangote refinery and ending fuel subsidies help to transform the economy?

    Can Nigeria end the 'oil curse'?
  • Tuesday, 30 July, 2024
    Western Sahara
    Algeria withdraws ambassador from France over Western Sahara dispute

    Algiers lashes out at Paris for backing plan for Morocco to take sovereignty over the disputed territory

    A Polisario Front soldier salutes during a military parade in Algeria, which suports the Sahrawi group fighting for independence for Western Sahara
  • Tuesday, 30 July, 2024
    Energy Source
    Nigeria’s Dangote refinery embroiled in billionaire’s feud with government Premium content

    An industry regulator accused Africa’s richest man of monopolistic practices with his new $20bn plant

    Workers stand in front of the Mild Hydrocracking Unit at the Dangote Petroleum Refinery
  • Monday, 29 July, 2024
    Mozambique
    Mozambique to recover $825mn from ‘tuna bonds’ fraud

    London court rules against Gulf shipbuilder Privinvest over scandal surrounding debt sold in 2013

    Security guards patrol past the EMATUM fishing fleet docked in Maputo, Mozambique
  • Monday, 29 July, 2024
    Mali
    Russia’s Wagner Group sustains losses in ‘fierce’ Mali fighting

    Unknown number of mercenaries killed in clashes with ethnic Tuareg rebels on border with Algeria

    Russian mercenaries, in northern Mali
  • Monday, 29 July, 2024
    Ethiopia
    Ethiopia floats currency as it seeks to secure IMF deal

    Foreign exchange reform will remove market distortions but some analysts fear it will stoke inflation

    A vendor counts out Ethiopian birr banknotes at the Shola market in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
  • Saturday, 27 July, 2024
    Travel
    Sarah Perry: my journey across ‘moving, magnificent’ Namibia

    Vast horizons, rare animals and sublime night skies: a week-long journey across the country dazzles novelist Sarah Perry

    Truck driving down dirt track across wild-grass landscape towards mountains in the distance
  • Friday, 26 July, 2024
    News in-depthKenya
    How a ‘bunch of nobodies’ left Kenya’s political class running scared

    Young and tech-savvy protesters drawn from traditionally divided tribes are forcing concessions from President Ruto

    Demonstrators march to parliament with wooden crosses
  • Tuesday, 23 July, 2024
    Energy Source
    A cautionary tale from South Africa’s ‘just energy transition’ Premium content

    Eskom chief says repurposing of coal plant created an ‘atomic bomb scenario’ for local jobs

    Cooling towers at the Komati coal-fired power station
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