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“political persecution”

Premium badgeAngola: Unitel targets Isabel dos Santos in London court

Unitel, once run by Isabel dos Santos, the daughter of late Angolan president José Eduardo dos Santos, is demanding the repayment of around $400m wort...

© Moroccan employees work in the new Renault factory in Melloussa, 30 km (19 miles) from Tangiers February 9, 2012. French car maker Renault opened a sprawling low-cost Moroccan factory on Thursday, taking aim at strong European demand for no-frills vehicles in a bid to buck the overall decline in the region’s car market. REUTERS/Stringer

our chance

Premium badgeWhat if Africa tried the Chinese model to eradicate poverty? From 2013 to 2021, nearly 100 million Chinese people broke free from poverty. So it should be possible to restore hope and dignity to millions of Afri...
© File photo of veteran US diplomat and Africanist Johnnie Carson. (Chatham House/WikimediaCommons)

Promise keeper

Premium badgeEXCLUSIVE: US Veteran diplomat Johnnie Carson races to enact Biden’s Africa agenda Having just turned 80 in April, veteran US diplomat Johnnie Carson shows no signs of slowing down.
Félix Tshisekedi arrives at the extraordinary summit of East African Community heads of state in Bujumbura on February 4, 2023. © Tchandrou Nitanga/AFP

'economic colonisation'

Premium badgeDRC: Tshisekedi wants to renegotiate Kabila’s ‘contract of the century’ with China A task force was created by DRC President Félix Tshisekedi ahead of his meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in order to identify the axes ...

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Isabel Dos Santos in April 2020 ©Facebook/Isabel Dos Santos.

“political persecution”

Premium badgeAngola: Unitel targets Isabel dos Santos in London court Unitel, once run by Isabel dos Santos, the daughter of late Angolan president José Eduardo dos Santos, is demanding the repayment of around $400m wort...
© Moroccan employees work in the new Renault factory in Melloussa, 30 km (19 miles) from Tangiers February 9, 2012. French car maker Renault opened a sprawling low-cost Moroccan factory on Thursday, taking aim at strong European demand for no-frills vehicles in a bid to buck the overall decline in the region’s car market. REUTERS/Stringer

our chance

Premium badgeWhat if Africa tried the Chinese model to eradicate poverty? From 2013 to 2021, nearly 100 million Chinese people broke free from poverty. So it should be possible to restore hope and dignity to millions of Afri...
© File photo of veteran US diplomat and Africanist Johnnie Carson. (Chatham House/WikimediaCommons)

Promise keeper

Premium badgeEXCLUSIVE: US Veteran diplomat Johnnie Carson races to enact Biden’s Africa agenda Having just turned 80 in April, veteran US diplomat Johnnie Carson shows no signs of slowing down.

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Isabel Dos Santos in April 2020 ©Facebook/Isabel Dos Santos.

“political persecution”

Premium badgeAngola: Unitel targets Isabel dos Santos in London court Unitel, once run by Isabel dos Santos, the daughter of late Angolan president José Eduardo dos Santos, is demanding the repayment of around $400m wort...
© Moroccan employees work in the new Renault factory in Melloussa, 30 km (19 miles) from Tangiers February 9, 2012. French car maker Renault opened a sprawling low-cost Moroccan factory on Thursday, taking aim at strong European demand for no-frills vehicles in a bid to buck the overall decline in the region’s car market. REUTERS/Stringer

our chance

Premium badgeWhat if Africa tried the Chinese model to eradicate poverty? From 2013 to 2021, nearly 100 million Chinese people broke free from poverty. So it should be possible to restore hope and dignity to millions of Afri...
© File photo of veteran US diplomat and Africanist Johnnie Carson. (Chatham House/WikimediaCommons)

Promise keeper

Premium badgeEXCLUSIVE: US Veteran diplomat Johnnie Carson races to enact Biden’s Africa agenda Having just turned 80 in April, veteran US diplomat Johnnie Carson shows no signs of slowing down.

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missing links

Premium badgeTanzania’s Standard Gauge Railway: Most advanced, but victim of minor private sector investment Tanzania’s standard gauge railway project – that seeks to open up quicker transport corridors towards the vast hinterland of Burundi, DRC, Rwanda, and...
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Coffee With

Angélique Kidjo, an encounter beyond space and time Fresh from winning the prestigious Polar Music Prize, the Benin-born singer tells The Africa Report what motivates her to cross cultural divides in he...
Akinwumi Adesina, president of the African Development Bank, in Paris on 10 November 2021. © Damien Grenon for JA

leverage accelerator

Premium badgeAfDB tackles climate change at annual meeting in Sharm al-Sheikh More than 4,000 people have travelled to Egypt to attend the 58th Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) and ...
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Cracking down

Premium badgeUS sanctions Wagner commander in Mali in latest crackdown on Russian mercenary operations in Africa The US government slapped new sanctions on Russia’s Wagner Group on 25 May, putting African nations on notice that working with the Kremlin-linked mer...
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checks & balances

Premium badgeLiberia ends voter registration amid cases of voter trucking and irregularities  The national elections commission ended its voter registration on 11 May for the general election scheduled for 10 October. But the process was not wi...
General Sadiba Koulibaly (L) and Mamady Doumbouya (R), president of the transition ©JA Montage: John Wessels/AFP -All rights reserved.

musical chairs

Premium badgeGuinea: Mamadi Doumbouya and Sadiba Koulibaly’s divorce is final In early May, the president of the Guinean transition abruptly dismissed his army’s chief of staff. This decision revealed the heavy tension at the hi...