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© A Maasai Giraffe at the Nairobi National Park with Britam Tower, the tallest building in Kenya, in the background. (Photo: WikimediaCommons)

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Kenya at 60 Sixty years after Kenya gained its independence, we look back on events and those who have shaped the east African country and how it continues to evo...
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300 African Finance Champions Our new exclusive composite index ranking African banks and insurers. A special index of Africa’s leading banking groups joins our ranking of Africa’s...
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Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Summit at United Nations headquarters in New York © Kenya’s President William Ruto attends the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Summit at United Nations headquarters in New York City, New York, U.S., September 18, 2023. REUTERS/Caitlin Ochs

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Kenya’s debt woes A declining shilling has been compounding Kenya’s financial misery, ballooning its debt servicing costs with the government still struggling to ramp u...
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Zimbabwean voters queue to cast their ballots in the country’s general elections in Harare

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Zimbabwe votes This will be the second election of the post-Mugabe period. What has changed for Zimbabwe?
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Resilience and growth A tough external outlook has forced African leaders to look for homegrown solutions to growth
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Kidnappings in Sahel on the rise A key source of income for JNIM or EIGS, kidnappings have increased dramatically in recent years across the Sahel region.
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According to the UN, ‘at least 500 people’ were executed in Moura by the Malian army and Wagner. © FLORENT VERGNES / AFP.

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Wagner, Africa’s new looters Beyond its military activities alongside the armed forces of CAR and Mali, the Russian mercenary group Wagner has been chasing economic gains.
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Who owns Mali’s Dogon cultural heritage? After the independence of Mali, Western merchants scoured the territory in search of art objects. Some of these works, acquired under opaque condition...
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Nigeria’s new Governors We introduce a selection of the 18 new governors in Nigeria
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The Barons of the West African fertiliser trade As the cornerstone of the agricultural sector, the supply of fertilisers represents a strategic market that brings together a few key players and a sl...
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