Latest Stories

Reinventing the Wheel

South Africa: Tyre importers go to court over multinationals anti-dumping request

The Tyre Importers Association of South Africa (TIASA) has made a court application to compel a group of multinationals to disclose information ... behind their request for increased anti-dumping duties on tyres.

A worker places ingots of 99.99 percent pure gold on 28 March 2011.

major card

Ghana’s Agyapa gold royalties deal: how does it work, who benefits, what’s next?

Suspended over corruption concerns in 2020, the Akufo-Addo government is hoping to return to parliament to seek approval for a revised bill on ... the controversial Agyapa gold royalties deal before the end of the year.

uphill task

Liberia: Weah’s new Chief Justice will have to win confidence of Liberians

President George Weah has nominated Justice Sie-A-Nyene Gyapay Yuoh as the next chief justice of the Supreme Court of Liberia. If confirmed by ... the senate, Justice Yuoh will replace Chief Justice Francis Korpor who is set to retire next month.

airline woes

Five questions to understand airline restrictions on income repatriation

Slowed down by the soaring price of kerosene and social movements, air traffic is going through a new turbulence zone on the continent due to ... restrictions on capital transfers.

international standards

Places of Power: Ethiopia’s historic Hilton & luxurious Sheraton

At the headquarters of the African Union, there's a host of secret deals and meetings that take place behind the famed walls of the Hilton and ... the Sheraton: the two iconic hotels in the capital.

Article 2/2 of "Secret Places of Power"

Direct attacks

Ethiopia: More airstrikes expected in Tigray as ceasefire ends

After an air strike hit a neighbourhood in the capital of Ethiopia's northern Tigray region yesterday near the local hospital, the region is ... preparing for another inbound attack in the area, says one analyst.

back in business

BAT reverses ban to relaunch nicotine pouches in Kenya

In less than 24 months, nicotine pouches are back on the Kenyan market after British American Tobacco (BAT), the biggest manufacturer in Kenya, lobbied ... government authorities for their reintroduction. Meanwhile, the tobacco manufacturer continues to push for the opening of its $2.5m nicotine manufacturing plant in Nairobi.

South Africa: Tyre importers go to court over multinationals anti-dumping request

major card

Ghana’s Agyapa gold royalties deal: how does it work, who benefits, what’s next?

uphill task

Liberia: Weah’s new Chief Justice will have to win confidence of Liberians

Reinventing the Wheel

South Africa: Tyre importers go to court over multinationals anti-dumping request

major card

Ghana’s Agyapa gold royalties deal: how does it work, who benefits, what’s next?

uphill task

Liberia: Weah’s new Chief Justice will have to win confidence of Liberians

Join a global community who rely on us for insight into power,
markets and people on the continent.

Join now

Mysterious resignation

Why is Vera Songwe leaving the UN’s Economic Commission for Africa?

Has Vera Songwe been given a new position in another institution or was she forced to resign from her post as executive secretary of the UN’s ... Economic Commission for Africa? Here is what we know so far.

public to private

How different is Nigeria’s new national oil company? And will we see an IPO?

Last month, President Buhari unveiled Nigeria's rebranded national hydrocarbon company, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPC ... Limited). The transition of the government-controlled national oil company to a commercially-run entity was made possible by the signing of the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) in August 2021.

Stress Test

Prudential says business growing across Africa, to roll out health-insurance app

Global insurer Prudential has seen growth in premiums and numbers of policies sold across Africa this year, Eddie Brown, head of francophone ... Africa, tells The Africa Report.

au revoir, monusco?

DRC: Is it time for the UN force in Congo to leave?

The UN mission in the DRC is confronted by demonstrations demanding its departure. Long under pressure while Kabila was in power, it is now being ... pushed out by the Tshisekedi administration. Twenty-three years after its arrival in Congo, is it time for it to pack up? A deep dive into the operational difficulties of the UN's most expensive operation - $1.5bn.

defending mining

Barrick Gold’s Mark Bristow: ‘Africa and South America are not the ones polluting’

Prospecting, logistics, local processing... The CEO of the mining giant unveils the strategy of his company, which wants to focus more copper, ... especially in Zambia and the DRC.

leading role

Places of Power: Senegal, where all roads lead to Touba

If presidential palaces are symbols of the power of heads of state, other places and buildings still play a crucial role. Today we look at Senegal's ... Touba, the cradle of Mouridism, which has long had a complex relationship with the political sphere.

rule of law

Tanzania: Government says Masaai eviction is to save its tourism sector

The decision of the Tanzanian government to evacuate the Maasai community from their ancestor land in Ngorongoro and Loliondo has received little ... attention by international media. Locally, many have criticised the government's approach. The process has caused fighting between the Maasai and security officials and in June, the government confirmed one police officer was killed in the fighting.

our land

Nigeria supports its banks, helping them avoid foreign disruption

Nigeria's banking sector is supported by government, making it better able to fend off foreign challengers - something policy makers in other ... countries may want to emulate, suggest Nachum and Ogbechie.

Japan's Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi and United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed attend the opening session of the eighth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) in Tunisia's capital Tunis on August 27, 2022.

Konnichiwa continent

Japan makes $30bn Africa aid pledge during TICAD in Tunis

Japan will extend $30 billion in funding to aid African development. This is the major outcome of the eighth Tokyo International Conference ... on African Development, which took place in Tunisia this weekend.

Out of Order

Kenya: M-Pesa beats most traditional banks on customer sentiment, survey finds

Safaricom’s mobile money platform M-Pesa is perceived more positively than traditional banks in Kenya, according to the Kenya Banking Sentiment ... Index published in August by DataEQ in collaboration with Deloitte.

France's President Emmanuel Macron (L) reacts during his visit at the disco Maghreb Shopin, the mythical label of rai music, in front of its owner, Boualem Benhaoua (R), and France's former minister and Arab World Institute President Jack Lang (3rdR) in Oran on August 27, 2022. - Emmanuel Macron is on a three-day visit to Algeria aimed at mending ties with the former French colony, which this year marks its 60th anniversary of independence.

relationship reboot

Algeria-France: Four Russian planes of the Algerian army escort Macron back to Paris

Emmanuel Macron's three-day visit to Algeria was highly appreciated both in Algiers and in Paris. As a symbol of this warming up, Algiers had ... the presidential plane escorted by four Russian-made fighter jets. A first for a French head of state.

The procession carrying the coffin of former president José Eduardo dos Santos, Republic Square in Luanda, Angola, on August 28, 2022.

coming home

Angola: The funeral of José Eduardo dos Santos, a historic moment at a political turning point

Angola paid tribute to its former president with a state funeral on Sunday 28 August. The ceremony took place in the midst of political tensions ... between the MPLA and Unita, after the tense general elections on 24 August.

Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema arrives for the Leaders' Retreat, on the sidelines of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting at the Intare Conference centre in Kigali, Rwanda June 25, 2022.

rubber, meet road

Zambia: In his first year Hichilema stabilised the kwacha, but corrupt officials remain untroubled

The burst of optimism that ushered President Hakainde Hichilema and his United Party for National Development (UPND) into power a year ago have ... run into the reality of governing a highly expectant population. Although progress has been made on the economy, Hichilema is taking a different approach to unpicking the corruption of the previous regime.

Latest Stories

More top stories