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Premium badgePaul Kagame and Rwanda Inc. target foreign opportunity Having become an essential economic player in Rwanda, the holding company, owned by the ruling party, is now expanding across the continent, driven by...
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Premium badge20 African startups to watch in 2023: Our complete ranking In which sectors do the most promising African startups stand out? Which ones are best at attracting investors? The results of our exclusive investiga...
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‘hub of Central Africa’

Qatar Airways boosting cargo business in Africa through Rwanda With the help of RwandAir and Africa Global Logistics (formerly Bolloré Africa Logistics), Qatar Airways plans to strengthen its cargo business on the...

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The 20 future champions of African tech: Winners, analysis…our exclusive investigation Fintech, logistics, e-commerce… Which startups from across the African continent are the main investors betting on? After our investigation into such ...

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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...
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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© Tanzania is constructing the Central Corridor Standard Gauge Railway. (photo: twitter)

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...
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 ...
© A pedestrian walks past a mural depicting Russia’s para military mercenaries ‘Wagner Group’ reading : “Wagner Group – Russian knights” on a building’s wall in Belgrade, on November 17, 2022. (Photo by OLIVER BUNIC / AFP)

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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Battery Metals

Premium badgeBotswana: Giyani to seek up to $300m for manganese mine at K. Hill Canada-listed junior miner Giyani will seek to raise between $280m and $300m for its manganese project at K. Hill in Botswana, CEO Danny Keating tells...
© Demonstrators show their support for Colonel Aissimi Goïta in January 2022. OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT/AFP

growing trust

Mali: Poll highlights confidence in Assimi Goïta and Russia More than 90% of surveyed Malians say they trust their Russian partners and are satisfied with the transitional regime, according to an opinion poll c...
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who's who

Premium badgeCameroon: Who’s who in Nabil Mbombo Royal Court? The 20th sultan of one of Western Cameroon’s oldest and most influential dynasties has surrounded himself with not just his father’s former followers,...
© Sudanese Army sodliers walk near armoured vehicles stationed on a street in southern Khartoum, on May 6, 2023, amid ongoing fighting against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. – Air strikes battered Sudan’s capital on May 6, as fighting entered a fourth week only hours before the warring parties are to meet in Saudi Arabia for their first direct talks. (Photo by – / AFP)

lip-service

Sudan: What’s wrong with the US-Saudi-mediated talks in Jeddah? Over the weekend, US-Saudi mediated talks took place in the city of Jeddah to find a way to stop the war from escalating in Sudan. The initiative, whi...
© Smoke billows during fighting in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, on May 3, 2023. (Photo by – / AFP)

air strikes and explosions

Sudan: Warning of ‘protracted’ conflict as fighting rages Air strikes and gunfire rocked Sudan’s capital on Friday as fighting showed no signs of abating, despite the threat of renewed US sanctions and mounti...
© Chinese and American flags at a US-China strategic and economic dialogue meeting in Beijing, 10 July 2014. NG HAN GUAN/AFP

building resilience

Premium badgeChina-US tensions: What will this cost Africa? The war in Ukraine and the rise in tension between Washington and Beijing have raised fears of another Cold War, marked by the division of the world i...