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A view shows a damaged car on a road, after a powerful storm and heavy rainfall hit Qandula, Libya, September 12, 2023. REUTERS/Esam Omran Al-Fetori

Rising death toll

Premium badge‘Thousands’ feared dead or missing as floods devastate east Libya The flash floods in eastern Libya killed more than 2,300 people in the Mediterranean coastal city of Derna alone.
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projects suspended

Premium badgeCoup d’état in Niger: Is Niamey-Cotonou corridor a lost cause? With funding frozen since the Niger coup, a Niger-Benin road project to facilitate access of Nigerien goods has stalled.
Former Congolese President Joseph Kabila at his farm in Kingakati, 50km east of Kinshasa, 10 December 2018. © JOHN WESSELS/AFP

BREAKING DOWN BARRIERS

Premium badgeIn DRC, president reopens roads around Kabila’s residence The barriers have been removed at all entrances to former Congolese president Joseph Kabila’s Kinshasa residence, GLM.
Stanis Bujakera Tshiamala, correspondent for Jeune Afrique in Kinshasa. (Photo: JA)

Freedom now

DRC: Jeune Afrique correspondent arrested in Kinshasa Stanis Bujakera Tshiamala, Jeune Afrique’s correspondent in Kinshasa, has been in custody since in Friday, accused of ‘disseminating false information...

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Tension is mounting between Assimi Goïta’s junta and the former Azawad rebellion (©Jeune Afrique montage: Malian presidency; Souleymane Ag Anara/AFP)

Broken agreement

Premium badgeMali: Why northern rebels have taken up arms… again In northern Mali, clashes have resumed between the army and former independence rebels.
General Oligui Nguema was sworn in as Gabon’s president of the transition on 4 September 2023 in Libreville. ©AFP

great expectations

Premium badge[Exclusive] Gabon’s Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema: ‘This is not a coup d’état, but an act of liberation’ In an exclusive interview in Libreville, General Oligui Nguema, transitional head of Gabon, told us he would liberate the people and turn the page on ...
According to Kristalina Georgieva (shown here at the Spring Meetings, April 2023), head of the IMF, 15% of low-income countries are already in a debt crisis and 40% are getting closer to it. MANDEL NGAN/AFP.

high risk

Premium badgeExplainer: How (un)sustainable Africa’s sovereign debt is Sovereign debt can be a powerful lever for economic development, provided it is used wisely. How do African countries manage to convince creditors?

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Tension is mounting between Assimi Goïta’s junta and the former Azawad rebellion (©Jeune Afrique montage: Malian presidency; Souleymane Ag Anara/AFP)

Broken agreement

Premium badgeMali: Why northern rebels have taken up arms… again In northern Mali, clashes have resumed between the army and former independence rebels.
General Oligui Nguema was sworn in as Gabon’s president of the transition on 4 September 2023 in Libreville. ©AFP

great expectations

Premium badge[Exclusive] Gabon’s Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema: ‘This is not a coup d’état, but an act of liberation’ In an exclusive interview in Libreville, General Oligui Nguema, transitional head of Gabon, told us he would liberate the people and turn the page on ...
According to Kristalina Georgieva (shown here at the Spring Meetings, April 2023), head of the IMF, 15% of low-income countries are already in a debt crisis and 40% are getting closer to it. MANDEL NGAN/AFP.

high risk

Premium badgeExplainer: How (un)sustainable Africa’s sovereign debt is Sovereign debt can be a powerful lever for economic development, provided it is used wisely. How do African countries manage to convince creditors?

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People wait outside, at the Marrakech-Menara airport, following a powerful earthquake in Morocco, September 9, 2023. REUTERS/Hannah McKay

Into Africa

Premium badgeWorld Bank, IMF set to return to Africa after 50 years despite Morocco’s quake Earthquake-ravaged Morocco is set to host next month the first annual meetings of the Bretton Woods institutions on the continent since 1973.
An employee attends to a customer inside a mobile phone service centre operated by Kenyan telecom operator Airtel Kenya at the Sarit Centre in Westlands, Nairobi. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

Cut Price Pitch

Premium badgeAirtel said to face institutional pressure to cut offer price for Uganda IPO Airtel Uganda’s IPO price tag is drawing investor scepticism with the mobile money business off the table.
A soldier from the French Gendarmerie’s Special Intervention Unit (USIGN) in front of an NH90 Caiman helicopter at the Ouallam military base, Niger, on 15 July 2022. BERTRAND GUAY/AFP

WAR TALK

Premium badgeNiger accuses Paris of invasion plan as Macron rejects calls for French withdrawal Over the weekend, Niger accused France of amassing military forces in several West African countries, as relations between Niamey and Paris plunge fur...
© Liberia 2023 presidential candidate Sara Beysolow Nyanti. (Facebook)

women power

Premium badgeLiberia: Former UN envoy steps up to unseat President Weah in elections Sara Beysolow Nyanti, the female presidential candidate on the ticket of the African Liberation League, is optimistic of blocking Weah’s second term. ...
© Mark Bristow, CEO of Barrick Gold Co., speaks during the Investing in African Mining Indaba 2023 conference in Cape Town, South Africa, February 8, 2023. REUTERS/Shelley Christians

lack of lustre

Premium badgeExperts wary of Mali’s new mining code despite Barrick Gold’s involvement Barrick Gold Corporation – and its South African chief Mark Bristow – are closely following legislative developments, and their potential impact on th...
Samuel Eto’o in Paris on 25 March 2021. Vincent Fournier for JA

Red card

Premium badgeThe 10+ trials of Cameroon football head and star Samuel Eto’o Since his election as head of the Cameroonian Football Federation (FECAFOOT), Samuel Eto’o has made a number of decisions sparking controversy.