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  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
    US politics & policy
    White South Africans arrive in US under Trump refugee scheme

    President offered asylum to Afrikaners he says have faced violence and discrimination since end of apartheid

    White South Africans supporting US President Donald Trump
  • 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
  • Thursday, 8 May, 2025
    South Africa
    Mass starvation of chickens at state-backed South African farm sparks uproar

    Parliament to summon government-run pension fund manager after starving birds resorted to cannibalism

    Dead chickens inside a large poultry farm site in South Africa
  • Tuesday, 6 May, 2025
    Sudan
    Sudan’s wartime capital hit by drone attacks for first time

    Assault on army-held Port Sudan heralds dangerous escalation in two-year civil war

    A large plume of smoke rises from a fuel depot
  • Friday, 2 May, 2025
    Uganda
    Anger in Uganda after leader’s son claims he abducted rival’s bodyguard

    Crackdown on Bobi Wine and his supporters by military chief seen as undermining stability in east Africa

    General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the son of President Yoweri Museveni, leads  Uganda’s army land forces
  • Sunday, 27 April, 2025
    KoBold Metals
    Mining group backed by Gates and Bezos expands into DR Congo

    KoBold bets country will be important to US efforts to secure minerals for energy transition

    An employee of Chinese company CMOC demonstrates cobalt hydroxide produced at Tenke Fungurume Mine
  • Sunday, 27 April, 2025
    Nigeria
    Nigeria’s spiralling rural violence heaps pressure on president

    US conservatives urge White House to penalise country over what they claim are targeted attacks against Christians

    People attend the funeral of a man that was killed following an attack by gunmen in the Zike farming community in north-central Nigeria
  • Thursday, 24 April, 2025
    South African politics
    South Africa scraps VAT increase in dramatic U-turn after coalition rift

    Finance minister forced into climbdown on tax rise after bitter fight with governing partner

    South Africa’s finance minister Enoch Godongwana
  • Thursday, 24 April, 2025
    InterviewTidjane Thiam
    Ex-Credit Suisse chief Thiam vows to fight Ivory Coast electoral ban

    Former banker barred from running for president in polls scheduled for October

    A man stands in front of an image of Ivorian businessman Tidjane Thiam in Abidjan on April 16 2025
  • Wednesday, 23 April, 2025
    Venice Architecture Biennale 2025
    Can these architects right the wrongs of Britain’s colonial past?

    The British pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale has assembled an international team — including a visionary Kenyan studio

    Four people, two men and two women, stand at a balcony in Venice
  • Tuesday, 22 April, 2025
    Ivory Coast
    Tidjane Thiam suffers major blow to presidential ambitions in Ivory Coast

    Court in Abidjan rules former Credit Suisse CEO should be struck off electoral register, his lawyer says

    Tidjane Thiam called the court’s ruling ‘democratic vandalism’
  • Sunday, 20 April, 2025
    US foreign policy
    US explores drastic cuts to state department operations

    Trump administration floats closure of African embassies in draft executive order but Marco Rubio calls proposal a ‘hoax’

    The US embassy in Bangui in the Central African Republic
  • Sunday, 20 April, 2025
    LexAgricultural commodities
    Cocoa: a bittersweet tale Premium content

    Markets have been hoppier than an Easter bunny

    Lindt Chocolate Easter bunnies in a display in Basel, Switzerland
  • Sunday, 20 April, 2025
    News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
    Trump’s Gaza plan piles pressure on his ‘favourite dictator’

    Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has sought to kill proposal to expel population while preserving good relations with US president

    US President Donald Trump, centre, welcoming Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to the White House, Washington, US in April 2019
  • Saturday, 19 April, 2025
    Tunisia
    Mass trial hands down lengthy sentences to Tunisian opposition figures

    Critics of authoritarian president who has dismantled Arab Spring reforms face up to 66 years in jail

    Demonstrators carry flags and banners during a protest against the Tunisian President Kais Saied’s seizure of governing powers, in 2021.
  • Saturday, 19 April, 2025
    Travel
    Deep into the Sahara, on a Mauritanian adventure

    As travel warnings ease and flights increase, David Pilling joins a tour operator’s ‘recce’, travelling from the coast into the desert to find dune seas, ancient villages and remote oases

    Six people on a ridge looking out across a vast sandy expanse with mountain ranges on either side
  • Thursday, 17 April, 2025
    News in-depthTrump tariffs
    How a country ‘nobody has heard of’ ended up in Trump’s crosshairs

    Lesotho, which US policy turned into a hub for Levi’s jeans and Trump-branded golf shirts, faces economic devastation

    Garment workers in Lesotho
  • Wednesday, 16 April, 2025
    South Africa
    South Africa’s new US envoy brushes off past criticism of ‘racist’ Trump

    Corruption whistleblower Mcebisi Jonas says there will be ‘no quick fixes’ after Washington expelled ambassador

    Mcebisi Jonas speaking at a summit in September 2024
  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
    Barrick Mining
    Mali threatens to seize Barrick Gold’s assets, company says

    Mining group also says ruling military junta has shut its office in Bamako

    A small toy figure and gold imitation in front of the Barrick logo
  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
    Sudan
    Sudan paramilitaries massacre hundreds of refugees in Darfur

    Activists warn of unfolding genocide as UK and others host peace conference in London

    People who fled a camp for the internally displaced after it fell under RSF control queue for food rations near the town of Tawila in war-torn Sudan’s western Darfur region
  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
    Tom Fletcher
    Do we have the humanity to meet the Sudan crisis?

    After two years of brutal war and famine, a surge in international solidarity is needed

    Sudanese line up to collect a meal in Omdourman
  • Sunday, 13 April, 2025
    News in-depthIndian politics & policy
    India launches biggest-ever joint naval exercises in Africa

    Six-day drills are part of New Delhi’s ambitions to project maritime clout and boost influence against rival China

    Indian Navy officers hand over pirates apprehended in the Indian Ocean
  • Saturday, 12 April, 2025
    News in-depthSouth Africa
    Trump’s championing of Afrikaner grievances sparks backlash in South Africa

    US president and his adviser Elon Musk seize on discredited claims to launch economic assault against African nation

    Afrikaner families climb a hill in Orania, South Africa
  • 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
  • Wednesday, 9 April, 2025
    Abdalla Hamdok
    There is no military solution in Sudan

    Wars end when political will, diplomacy and collective action force a path towards peace

    A fighter loyal to the army patrols a market area in Khartoum
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