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The Africa Report – African politics and business news

Ethiopia’s diplomatic paradox: embrace by China and the UAE, hostility from Cairo and Asmara

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Dangote IPO: The biggest winner may be Nigeria’s capital markets

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South Africa: ANC’s anti-apartheid allies break ranks as support slides

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Zimbabwe taps former Eskom exec to revive struggling power utility

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Afreximbank’s PAPSS looks beyond Africa with China and India payment-system links early 2027

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US Congress presses Trump on a strategy for jihadist-ravaged Mali

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Africa-UN: 5 questions to make sense of the 81st General Assembly

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The women running Kenya’s economy

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Starlink suspended in Senegal over breach of licensing rules

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Jared Kushner, Morocco and the billions promised by the Abraham Accords

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Why South Africa’s Mbeki and Mandela Centres shun the ego-trip of US-style presidential libraries

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Dangote refinery chief defends $49bn valuation as rivals face squeeze

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Kenya: Can Ruto turn the Tata Chemicals row into votes in 2027?

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Glencore vs Mercuria: The battle for critical minerals heats up

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TY Danjuma’s SAPETRO and Nigeria locked in two-year tax dispute

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How does Spain’s Sahrawi citizenship bill change its balancing act in North Africa?

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Kenya: Ruto’s foreign traders crackdown stokes xenophobia fears

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SanlamAllianz: After continental consolidation, the ‘cash machine’ is switched on

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US-Africa Week Ahead: New Africa diplomats, Somaliland courts Trump; diaspora day on Capitol Hill

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Western Tigray: Shifting alliances in Ethiopia’s most dangerous frontier

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Africa’s biggest IPO? Five questions about Dangote’s refinery listing

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Who’s on Mahama’s Christian task force to decide on Ghana’s scandal-hit cathedral?

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Kamissa Camara: From the centre of power in Mali to studying the soldiers who seized it

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Bolt, inDrive, Yango… Who will win Africa’s ride-hailing as Uber halves its footprint?

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Tidiane Ouattara: How Africa can turn space into economic power

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GERD: Ethiopia digs in as Egypt draws a red line on Nile dams

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BRICS: What Africa can realistically expect from the New Delhi summit

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Why Algeria has severed diplomatic relations with the United Arab Emirates

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Frank Garcia: 5 questions to understand US top diplomat’s second trip to Africa

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In DRC, Makoko copper deposit looks like a bigger prize for Ivanhoe Mines

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Ghana rebounds, Nigeria steadies as West Africa braces for new global shocks

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El Niño could cost Africa $20bn – here’s where it will hit hardest

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Mutiny in Niger: 5 questions to understand why the AES confederation left Tiani on his own

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Data capture: How US tech giants are building the AI future without Africa

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Aviation: Are Africa’s airlines destined to feed foreign hubs?

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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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