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African economy

  • Tuesday, 27 May, 2025
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Nigeria’s shock therapy

    Citizens have yet to feel the benefit of economic reform, but Bola Tinubu should press on

    Nigerian President Bola Tinubu
  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
    South African politics
    South Africa turns to golf diplomacy to woo Trump

    Ernie Els set to join Cyril Ramaphosa for White House meeting after breakdown in relations between Pretoria and Washington

    Ramaphosa; Trump and Els in 2017
  • Wednesday, 14 May, 2025
    Special ReportAfrica’s Fastest-Growing Companies
    The ranking: Africa's Fastest-Growing Companies 2025

    South Africa and Nigeria dominate the list of 130 businesses hinting at the difficulties entrepreneurs from smaller countries face in building a continental presence

    Aerial view of Cape Town, South Africa, with Table Mountain in the background and the city’s stadium and harbor in the foreground
  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
    Oil & Gas industry
    The Nigerian companies leading historic shift in oil wealth ownership

    Local producers are stepping in to fill the gap vacated by foreign majors retreating from Africa’s largest producer

    Oil platform in Lagos, Nigeria
  • Friday, 11 April, 2025
    Angola
    Angola hit with $200mn JPMorgan margin call as African bonds tumble

    Oil-producing nation injects cash to shore up loan after crude prices slump

    Angola’s President Joao Lourenco
  • Sunday, 6 April, 2025
    US foreign policy
    US closes in on critical minerals deal with DR Congo

    Trump’s Africa adviser agrees ‘path forward’ to drive American mining investment as Tshisekedi government seeks to shore up support

    Workers at the Tenke Fungurume copper and cobalt mine in DR Congo
  • Sunday, 6 April, 2025
    ‘Land grabs’ in Africa replaced by ‘carbon grabs’, says bank chief

    AfDB president Akinwumi Adesina says foreign companies paying derisory prices for carbon sequestration

    Akinwumi Adesina,
  • Friday, 4 April, 2025
    South African economy
    South Africa minister says US trade deal ‘nullified’ by Trump tariffs

    Parks Tau backs pivot to China in face of high levies from Donald Trump administration

    Parks Tau
  • Thursday, 27 March, 2025
    Nigeria
    Nigeria’s exploding oil pipelines spark national political crisis

    President accused of over-reach after he ousted state government in wake of apparent sabotage

    Gas-flaring furnaces seen from a distance
  • Friday, 21 March, 2025
    Special ReportFuture of Water
    Mismanagement turns up pressure on South Africa’s water system

    Reservoirs may be full but poor maintenance, lack of investment and criminality are disrupting supplies

    A person collects water from an outdoor tap, filling a yellow bucket while a blue bucket sits below
  • Wednesday, 19 March, 2025
    The Future of Aid
    The country that kicked out USAID

    Two decades after Eritrea expelled the American agency, other nations must now find a way to survive without it

    Montage of Eritrean women carrying bags of concrete mixture and rocks for a reservoir project, USAID and World Food Programme logos on a damaged box, and a pixelated world map
  • Tuesday, 18 March, 2025
    Nigeria
    Bet on Nigerian recovery draws investors seeking to dodge trade wars

    Africa’s most populous country among former crisis-hit economies attracting foreign inflows

    A customer exchanges Nigerian 1000 Naira banknotes for US dollar banknotes with a street currency dealer at a market in Lagos, Nigeria
  • Wednesday, 12 March, 2025
    The Future of Aid
    The railway that China hopes will take on the US in Africa

    Tazara project showcases Beijing’s leaner approach to overseas development just as western aid appears to retreat

    Montage of pixelated world map in black and red, construction of Tazara railway in 1973, and the Tazara Memorial Museum in Lusaka, Zambia
  • Wednesday, 5 March, 2025
    News in-depthCommodities
    How illegal gold mining is fuelling a chocolate shortage

    Ghanaian farmers are ditching cocoa to dig for bullion and driving up global prices

    An artisanal miner searches for gold inside an excavated pit at the Prestea-Huni Valley Municipal District in the Western Region, Ghana
  • Wednesday, 19 February, 2025
    South African politics
    South Africa’s budget postponed for first time after cabinet rift

    Officials say pro-business Democratic Alliance and senior figures in African National Congress objected to VAT rise

    Enoch Godongwana exits a building after a press conference
  • Monday, 17 February, 2025
    Ethiopia
    Ethiopia bond investors accuse IMF over debt relief

    Debtholders committee says government finances boosted by jump in coffee and gold exports

    The pair are seated, separated by the Ethiopian and IMF flags, during a joint press conference
  • Tuesday, 11 February, 2025
    Central African Republic
    Central African Republic’s Trump-style memecoin crashes after launch

    ‘$CAR’ crypto token plunges in value amid concerns over project’s authenticity

    Central African Republic President Faustin Archange Touadéra
  • Sunday, 9 February, 2025
    Namibia
    Namibia’s ‘founding father’ Sam Nujoma dies at 95

    Former guerrilla leader and president fought against apartheid and South African control

    Sam Nujoma
  • Sunday, 2 February, 2025
    The Baby Gap
    Kenya — a window into Africa’s demographic future

    The youthful continent is not immune from global trends pushing down fertility rates

  • Thursday, 30 January, 2025
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Rwanda’s stealth occupation of eastern Congo

    Pressure on Kigali is needed to avert a potential full-blown conflict

    Members of the M23 armed group ride in a pick-up truck during a patrol in Goma
  • Monday, 27 January, 2025
    Nigeria
    Nigeria’s plan to boost delta drilling sparks anger

    Campaigners rally against effort to revive Ogoniland production over legacy of environmental destruction

    A man walks near spilled crude oil in the village of Bodo in Ogoniland in 2010
  • Wednesday, 15 January, 2025
    South Africa
    South Africa arrests over 100 illegal miners after underground rescue

    Hundreds more still trapped since August in abandoned gold mine with dozens dead

    Illegal miners sit on the floor after their rescue
  • Tuesday, 14 January, 2025
    News in-depthMining
    The ‘terrifying’ crackdown on mining companies in Africa’s coup belt

    Military regimes in the Sahel have turned to tactics including arrests to assert control over critical mineral supplies

    Mark Bristow, left, Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traore, centre, Resolute Mining at Syama Gold Mine in Mali, right
  • Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
    Seplat Energy Plc
    Nigeria’s Seplat moves in to fill gap as foreign oil companies retreat

    Buyer of ExxonMobil’s assets in the west African country wants to double production within six months

    Two workers in blue overalls and white helmets are operating machinery at an industrial site.
  • Thursday, 2 January, 2025
    News in-depthEthiopia
    Ethiopia opens first stock market since Emperor Haile Selassie

    Prime minister pursues liberal reforms to revive ‘broke’ east African country after two-year civil war and default

    People walk towards the entrance of the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa
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