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The Africa Report – African politics and business news

Zimbabwe: How a 2% digital tax is pushing businesses into the informal sector

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Tanezrouft: Will a desert penal colony be enough to deter Algeria’s drug lords?

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Nigeria 2027: El-Rufai’s detention denies opposition fireworks and strategy

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Cameroon: Six skulls, a century in exile and a colonial history still to be unearthed

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Nigeria: TGI targets West Africa growth as Reliance, Wilmar deals take shape

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As blackout protests pile pressure on Barrow, can Senegal and Guinea keep The Gambia’s lights on?

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Ghana wants an EV revolution. Can its grid afford it?

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Boeing, Airbus, Embraer: Who stands to gain from Africa’s growing air traffic?

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Niger: Why Algeria has broken with its doctrine to get militarily involved in the Sahel

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Will Obasanjo’s presidential library escape Nigeria’s poor maintenance culture?

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Dangote, Sahara, Afriquia: Africa’s oil champions take on the majors

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Why Niger-Chad tensions are growing over armed groups and shifting alliances

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Kenya’s $38.7bn infrastructure fund taps Centum’s James Mworia

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Lagos, Abidjan, Nairobi: What’s driving African stock markets’ exceptional returns?

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Niger coup plot exposes deepening fractures in Tiani’s army

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‘The IPO for the people’: Dangote refinery targets 10 million retail investors

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Kenya-South Africa trade row puts tea tariff deal at risk

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Kenya 2027: How Oburu Oginga’s health threatens Ruto’s strategy

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Open borders: Why is implementing the AfCFTA stalling?

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US-Africa Week Ahead: America in Nairobi, Somaliland in Washington

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Nigeria: Ajimobi vs Akeredolu – two widows, two paths through Tinubu’s political machine

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Mcebisi Jonas: Critical thinking is needed to get South Africa back on track

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Mundubile, Lissu, Besigye: Treason cases sweep across Africa’s opposition

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Mali: Alpha Yaya Sangaré, the colonel felled by his book launch, gets 20 years in prison

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Kenya: How politics and state interference hinder essential police force overhaul

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Benin: Why Patrice Talon is playing the mediator at the Celestial Church of Christ

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Equatorial Guinea: Obiang’s government claims to have foiled coup attempt

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The Global South can drive the clean energy transition through battery storage

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Zimbabwe exits the World Bank fragility trap, but can it escape the debt trap?

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Mercedes Vera Martin (IMF): ‘Senegal’s debt treatment process has begun’

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DRC: AFC/M23’s parallel government exposes the limits of Kinshasa’s authority

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Uber quits Nigeria, Uganda as Bolt and inDrive honk horns

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Kenya, Dangote eye LNG power deal at Lamu refinery, target Tanzania gas

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Niger: Journalist Moussa Kaka missing as arrests follow coup attempt

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Lagos: US envoy counting on Nigeria to shape Washington’s Africa future

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Cocoa: Côte d’Ivoire launches marketing season a month earlier to align with Ghana

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Inside Yoco’s $16m push to become South Africa’s small-business operating system

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Cameroon: Why Paul Biya’s son Junior keeps a tight grip on his privacy

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Why did Senegal tear down a wall on the Gambian border? 5 questions answered

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Nigeria’s FTSE frontier return boosts prospects for Dangote refinery IPO

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Xi Jinping cements China’s Suez Canal foothold as US-Iran conflict deepens

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Cheers from investors, silence from South Africa: Hichilema’s second term begins

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US extends AGOA trade deal as Washington seeks to counter China in Africa

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Power reset or Samia tightening her grip? 10 things about Tanzania’s new VP

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Senegal: IMF clears path for $2.2bn deal as Dakar agrees to restructure its debt

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Simandou: Can Guinea avoid the resource-curse trap?

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Nigeria 2027: Atiku bets subsidy backlash can crack Tinubu’s northern vote

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Bitter brew: Castel’s succession battle intensifies

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DRC: Copper is eclipsing cobalt in the race for critical minerals

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Morocco’s Ceuta crisis: How a storm in a teacup ignited the West’s far-right

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