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Kenya’s President William Ruto at State House, in Nairobi. (Tony Karumba/AFP)

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Premium badgeKenya: UK delays $121m for Nairobi Railway City

The British government-backed UK Export Finance (UKEF) has delayed a £100m ($121.9m) payment for the development of Nairobi Railway City – the largest...

Has Nevers Mumba finally unleashed the beast in SADC?

SADC Siasa

Has Nevers Mumba finally unleashed the beast in SADC? There is pervasively silent consensus amongst progressive political analysts and neutral observers in Southern Africa that SADC is but a toothless bul...
© Former Ghana New Patriotic Party member, former minister Alan Kyerematen is running for president as an independent. (Ozge Elif Kizil / Anadolu Agency via AFP)

Independent man

Premium badgeExclusive: Ghana’s Alan Kyerematen talks about presidential ambition Alan Kyerematen, once a stalwart of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), speaks to The Africa Report about running for president as an independent.
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West, Central Africa

Premium badgeHow supermarket giant Système U is cashing in on Casino’s retreat from Africa The co-operative supermarket chain is enjoying a boom on the continent, partly thanks to its partnership with Monaco retailer MIM.
Ibrahim Traoré at Ouagadougou airport, preparing to fly to St Petersburg, 25 July 2023 (©Burkina Faso presidency).

vicious cycle

Burkina’s military govt says it has foiled a coup attempt Officers and other alleged participants in the ‘destabilisation attempt’ have been arrested.
Governor Amos Nyaribo, who heads Nyamira, a region in Western Kenya, could be impeached next week. (X @governornyaribo)

hot seat

Kenya: Nyamira governor faces impeachment over abuse of office The governor of Nyamira, a region in western Kenya, is on the spot, facing possible impeachment on Tuesday next week.
Nneka Onyeali-Ikpe, MD of Fidelity Bank

oil snubbed

Premium badgeNigeria: Can Fidelity Bank’s export-driven growth be replicated? Nigerian banks are trying to increase their lending to exporters to benefit from the revalued naira. Fidelity Bank CEO Nneka Onyeali-Ikpe and other ex...

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Kenya’s President William Ruto at State House, in Nairobi. (Tony Karumba/AFP)

off track

Premium badgeKenya: UK delays $121m for Nairobi Railway City The British government-backed UK Export Finance (UKEF) has delayed a £100m ($121.9m) payment for the development of Nairobi Railway City – the largest...
© Former Ghana New Patriotic Party member, former minister Alan Kyerematen is running for president as an independent. (Ozge Elif Kizil / Anadolu Agency via AFP)

Independent man

Premium badgeExclusive: Ghana’s Alan Kyerematen talks about presidential ambition Alan Kyerematen, once a stalwart of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), speaks to The Africa Report about running for president as an independent.
© Photo supplied

West, Central Africa

Premium badgeHow supermarket giant Système U is cashing in on Casino’s retreat from Africa The co-operative supermarket chain is enjoying a boom on the continent, partly thanks to its partnership with Monaco retailer MIM.

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Kenya’s President William Ruto at State House, in Nairobi. (Tony Karumba/AFP)

off track

Premium badgeKenya: UK delays $121m for Nairobi Railway City The British government-backed UK Export Finance (UKEF) has delayed a £100m ($121.9m) payment for the development of Nairobi Railway City – the largest...
© Former Ghana New Patriotic Party member, former minister Alan Kyerematen is running for president as an independent. (Ozge Elif Kizil / Anadolu Agency via AFP)

Independent man

Premium badgeExclusive: Ghana’s Alan Kyerematen talks about presidential ambition Alan Kyerematen, once a stalwart of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), speaks to The Africa Report about running for president as an independent.
© Photo supplied

West, Central Africa

Premium badgeHow supermarket giant Système U is cashing in on Casino’s retreat from Africa The co-operative supermarket chain is enjoying a boom on the continent, partly thanks to its partnership with Monaco retailer MIM.

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Ethiopia Emperor Haile Selassie addresses the League of Nations on 30 June 1936 in Geneva to call for the body to support Ethiopia against Italian fascist aggression. (Public domain)

ON THIS DAY

Ethiopia joins the League of Nations, 100 years ago Ethiopia’s historic role in international diplomacy highlights its early engagement with international law in its fight against Italian aggression. ...
King Mohammed VI, in Rabat, on 8 October 2021. © Azzouz Boukallouch/MAP

all-Moroccan project

Five things to know about Morocco’s new water highway With a length of 66.7km, it has a dual objective: to improve agricultural irrigation, and to supply drinking water to the Rabat-Casablanca axis.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses the 78th United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York City on September 19, 2023. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP)

friendly foes

Premium badgeNigeria-South Africa: A complex relationship at a crossroads President Tinubu and President Ramaphosa left New York promising constructive political and business collaboration moving forward. Here are ten things...
Ghana’s President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo attends the 78th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., September 20, 2023. REUTERS/Caitlin Ochs

Talking Shop

Premium badgeGhana’s Akufo-Addo plays to domestic gallery with UN climate, debt pitch Debt relief was top of the agenda for the countries in the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF).
Josiane Tchoungui has been at the helm of ACC since 1 September. Photo supplied

High hopes

Premium badgeCameroon: Josiane Tchoungui banks on miscellaneous experience to boost cocoa outcome CEO of ACC needs to secure a steady supply of raw materials to boost production, among other challenges.
Labour Unions Protest Over Fuel Subsidy Removal In Lagos, Nigeria

tough times

Premium badgeThe days of African fuel subsidies are numbered To ease the burden on public finances, African countries are reducing, or even abolishing, public subsidies for petroleum products.
Relations are tense between Zambia’s President Hakainde Hichilema (pictured) and his neighbour, Zimbabwean counterpart Emmerson Mnangagwa. (Reuters/Tiksa Negeri)

Neighbour issues

Premium badgeZimbabwe/Zambia: Electoral fraud report exposes frosty relations A diplomatic tiff is simmering between Zimbabwe and Zambia, its neighbour to the north.
A gas station attendant pumps fuel into a customer’s car at the NNPC Mega petrol station in Abuja

nationwide action

Nigeria unions call strike over fuel subsidy fallout Africa’s largest economy has seen living and transport costs heavily impacted after the government ended a petrol subsidy and also the naira.
Former President Uhuru Kenyatta and current President William Ruto (L) at the launch of the Building Bridges Initiative on 27 November 2019. REUTERS/Monica Mwangi

Killer squad

Premium badgeKenya: A year into presidency, Ruto regime stained by Kenyatta ‘sins’ Kenya’s President Ruto vowed to streamline the police force, but allegations of gross human rights violations keep surfacing.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks to the press on the sidelines of the 78th UN General Assembly, September 2023. (Reuters/Bing Guan)

Messaging war

Premium badgeUS suspends military aid to Gabon despite putschists’ appeal at the UN The State Department says it is pausing assistance to Libreville in line with African regional organisations’ condemnation of the 30 August coup.
A worker waters the site of a rare earth metals mine at Nancheng county, Jiangxi province, China, December 30, 2010. REUTERS/Stringer

Responsible Sourcing

Premium badgeAltona: China will have to accept domestic African rare-earths refining Altona Rare Earths CEO Cédric Simonet wants to sell minerals from the company’s Mozambique project to Western and Japanese markets rather than China. ...
Amhara Fano militia fighters inside a ransacked terminal at Lalibela airport in 2021. (Solan Kolli / AFP)

protracted conflict

Premium badgeWill the Fano drag Ethiopia back into civil war? Nearly two months after militia fighters briefly seized control of several cities across Amhara, the fate of the region hangs in the balance. Is Ethio...
Stanis Bujakera Tshiamala is Jeune Afrique’s correspondent in the DRC (All rights reserved).

FREE STANIS

DRC: Our colleague Stanis Bujakera Tshiamala is refused bail Our correspondent in the DRC is accused of “spreading false rumours”. His lawyers had appealed against his remand in custody.