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View shows trucks queuing with sacks of grains at the grain market in Merkato neighbourhood of Addis Ababa © African Renaissance sees Ethiopian logistics as a key growth market. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri

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Premium badgeAfrican Renaissance considers second East Africa venture capital tech fund

African Renaissance Partners believes venture-capital investment is set to take off in east Africa.

United Nations headquarters in New York.

final stretch

Premium badgeUN backs Chad’s call for more aid as a precursor to democracy The UN is all in for Chad even as the US and others question the solidity of its democratic transition.
© Photo of RSF forces dated 12 April 2023 (photo: @RSFSudan)

Threading needles

Premium badgeIs the US picking sides in Sudan’s civil war? The US is ramping up sanctions on Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces even as it courts their participation in Jeddah peace talks.
An aerial view of the black smoke and flames at a market in Omdurman, Khartoum North, Sudan, May 17, 2023 in this screengrab obtained from a handout video. VIDEO OBTAINED BY REUTERS

mediation framework

Sudan war: Diplomacy stuck in a trap Despite international efforts, fighting is escalating, mainly in Darfur and Khartoum, blocking the delivery of humanitarian aid and forcing thousands ...

Sudan top stories

View shows trucks queuing with sacks of grains at the grain market in Merkato neighbourhood of Addis Ababa © African Renaissance sees Ethiopian logistics as a key growth market. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri

Problem Solvers

Premium badgeAfrican Renaissance considers second East Africa venture capital tech fund African Renaissance Partners believes venture-capital investment is set to take off in east Africa.
United Nations headquarters in New York.

final stretch

Premium badgeUN backs Chad’s call for more aid as a precursor to democracy The UN is all in for Chad even as the US and others question the solidity of its democratic transition.
© Photo of RSF forces dated 12 April 2023 (photo: @RSFSudan)

Threading needles

Premium badgeIs the US picking sides in Sudan’s civil war? The US is ramping up sanctions on Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces even as it courts their participation in Jeddah peace talks.

Sudan top stories

View shows trucks queuing with sacks of grains at the grain market in Merkato neighbourhood of Addis Ababa © African Renaissance sees Ethiopian logistics as a key growth market. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri

Problem Solvers

Premium badgeAfrican Renaissance considers second East Africa venture capital tech fund African Renaissance Partners believes venture-capital investment is set to take off in east Africa.
United Nations headquarters in New York.

final stretch

Premium badgeUN backs Chad’s call for more aid as a precursor to democracy The UN is all in for Chad even as the US and others question the solidity of its democratic transition.
© Photo of RSF forces dated 12 April 2023 (photo: @RSFSudan)

Threading needles

Premium badgeIs the US picking sides in Sudan’s civil war? The US is ramping up sanctions on Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces even as it courts their participation in Jeddah peace talks.

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Fighters ride in a vehicle moving in a military convoy accompanying the governor of Sudan’s Darfur State during a stopover in the eastern city of Gedaref while on the way to Port Sudan on August 30, 2023.

massive influx

Premium badgeIn Sudan’s east, murky arms trade thrives as war rages More than four months into Sudan’s devastating war, arms dealers are struggling to keep up with demand for a trade that is booming, at a deadly cost.
jad20230824-eco-maroc-soudan-managem-1256×628-1692893338 © The plant at the Wadi Gabgaba mine in Sudan. Managem

‘significant growth’

Premium badgeImpacted by Sudan war, Managem borrows more on declining sales Weighed down by halted projects in war-hit Sudan and depressed prices for cobalt, zinc and copper, the Moroccan mining giant saw its midterm results p...
Yevgeny Prigozhin, 25 May 2023. (AFP/Concord Group)

What’s next?

Premium badgeThe myth of Wagner in Africa Following the Wagner mutiny that shook President Vladimir Putin in June, and the recent coup in Niger, speculation about the activities of the private...
Abdel-Fatau Musah, commissioner for political affairs, peace and security at the Economic Community of West Africa States. (Photo: ECOWAS)

what revolution?

Premium badgeExclusive: ECOWAS commissioner Musah dissects Niger coup – Part 2 In Part 2 of our exclusive interview, Abdel-Fatau Musah says the Niger crisis is not an anti-West coup, a narrative only adopted after deposing Presid...
afretwo © Africa Reinsurance CEO Corneille Karekezi. Photo supplied.

Greenback Craving

Premium badgeAfrica Re may demand more dollar payments to reduce currency risks, CEO says The company has already imposed dollar pricing on risks in Sudan. Will it do the same in other countries?
Sudan Ethiopia © Ethiopian refugees rest in Qadarif region, easter Sudan, Wednesday, Nov 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali)

Digital Aid

Premium badgeEthiopia: Arifpay, IrisGuard to use eye recognition for displaced person payments The Ethiopian fintech’s partnership with IrisGuard will seek to help people who lack identification documents.