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FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visits Angola

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Coronavirus: Reforms by Angola’s Lourenço helped mitigate effects of COVID-19

Big oil-producing countries have faced a double-hit in recent months: the sudden drop in prices of oil and the economic impact of the global ... pandemic. In the case of Angola, which entered both crises with an already weakened economy, how are its prospects looking? The Africa Report speaks to Sergio Pugliese, the Executive President for the African Energy Chamber (AEC), to find out.

tedros adhanom ghebreyesus

POLITICAL PANDEMIC

Coronavirus: ‘People’s vaccine’ campaigners claim victory at WHO summit

The campaign for a vaccine against the cororonavirus to be recognised as a global public good – patent-free, produced at scale and internationally ... available – is making headway. But progress is complicated by geopolitical rivalries between China and the United States as well as business interests.

fugitive justice

Rwandans will want Félicien Kabuga tried at home. Why this won’t happen

The man accused of supplying the funds to import the primary tools of the genocide – machetes – ahead of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide has been ... captured in France.

Kenya Africa Locust Outbreak

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Hopping to another crisis: Locusts and coronavirus in East Africa

As if taken from the playbook of an infuriated deity, buzzing black clouds cast shadows across countless fields in rural Ethiopia. ...

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finally found

Following the trail to capturing Rwandan genocide fugitive Félicien Kabuga

It took 26 years of Félicien Kabuga, the man suspected of financially backing the Tutsi genocide, evading law enforcement all over the world, ... before he was finally arrested on the outskirts of Paris last week.

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South Sudan Swearing In

COVID reaches the top

Coronavirus: South Sudan’s Riek Machar latest victim of COVID-19

The South Sudanese Vice-President, Riek Machar, and his wife, Defence Minister Angelina Teny, will self-quarantine for the next two weeks, after ... testing positive for the coronavirus.

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Tanzanian President John Magufuli waves as he attends a ceremony marking the country’s 58th independence anniversary in 2019. Stringer

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COVID-19 is casting Magufuli in the worst light, in an election year

It began with Elizabeth Ane. President John Pombe Magufuli explained that he had suspected that the number of COVID-19 cases in Tanzania was ... being artificially inflated.

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Fun facts

Seydou Kane: the most Gabonese of Mali’s businessmen

Seydou Kane is originally from Mali, but made his fortune in Gabon. As powerful as he is discreet, the businessman avoids the media like the ... plague.

Financing the Fightback

African SMEs need mixed markets, Islamic Trade Finance head says

Africa can’t afford to wait for its free trade agreement to promote integrated markets for small and medium-sized companies, International ... Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) CEO Hani Salem Sonbol tells The Africa Report.

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Geneva

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Coronavirus: Is WHO Chief Tedros Ghebreyesus on the chopping block?

When Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus formally announced his candidacy for the post of the Director-General of the World Health Organization on ... 24 May 2016, he certainly received a mixed bag of interest and expectations.

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