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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Niger coup plot exposes deepening fractures in Tiani’s army

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

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

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

Open borders: Why is implementing the AfCFTA stalling?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Uber quits Nigeria, Uganda as Bolt and inDrive honk horns

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

Niger: Journalist Moussa Kaka missing as arrests follow coup attempt

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Simandou: Can Guinea avoid the resource-curse trap?