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well-rounded

Premium badgeRyad Mezzour: Morocco is establishing genuine industrial sovereignty Decarbonisation, electric battery factories, renewable energies and more: the Moroccan Minister of Industry and Trade details his country’s strategy f...
Kenya Opposition leader (R) Raila Odinga and his deputy Martha Karua (L) in Nairobi, Kenya. (Reuters/Thomas Mukoya)

divided opposition

Kenya: Is Karua planning to ditch Raila with new political outfit? Opposition deputy leader Martha Karua has formed a new political outfit within the opposition coalition Azimio la Umoja One Kenya party.
The Husab uranium mine in western Namibia. 11 May 2018. Wu Changwei/Xinhua/REA

multiple agreements

From DRC to Madagascar, Japan weaves its web with critical metals From exploration to exploitation, Japan has signed a series of contracts with three African countries to secure its supplies of critical minerals.
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.
Kenya’s first president, Jomo Kenyatta, in 1978. (CC/Wikimedia Commons/Dutch National Archives)

memory lane

Kenya at 60: Key moments in history As Kenya celebrates 60 years, we give you 14 turning points in the life of the nation.
© Edward Gyambrah, the officer-in-charge of the Domestic Tax and Revenue Division at the Ghana Revenue Authority. Photo supplied

taking a gamble

Premium badgeGhana: Betting tax stirs public anger, experts’ doubts over economic impact Controversy is brewing in the West African nation as the government’s recent introduction of a 10% withholding tax on betting and lottery winnings ign...
French President Emmanuel Macron and Kenyan President William Ruto shake hands as they take part in a round table to discuss global economy during the New Global Financial Pact Summit at the Palais Brongniart in Paris, France on June 22, 2023. Dozens of global leaders are gathering in Paris on June 22 for a summit to tease out a new consensus on international economic reforms to help debt-burdened developing countries face a growing onslaught of challenges, particularly climate change. LUDOVIC MARIN/Pool via REUTERS

More inclusive

Institutional investors key to unlocking economic development If Africa is to become better insulated from global economic upheaval, it will need to tap into a local investor base.

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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. ...

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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. ...

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© Fatih Birol, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA) (Photo by SIMON MAINA / AFP)

predicted decline

IEA-OPEC clash ‘beginning of the end’ of fossil fuels? According to the International Energy Agency the decline of oil, gas, and coal is imminent. Producer cartel OPEC has hit back, calling the forecasts ‘...

rwanda redux

Premium badgePaul Kagame: ‘The problem is not between me and Tshisekedi’ The Rwandan president answers questions on the tensions with DRC, his probable fourth term, the recent spate of coups, and his dissatisfaction with th...
© Noureddin Bongo Valentin, the eldest son of Gabonese President Ali Bongo Ondimb, speaks as he attends the Gabon Marathon in Libreville on December 1, 2019. AFP

Gabon: Son of ousted president held in treason, graft case Noureddin Bongo Valentin and some allies face a range of charges including misappropriation of public funds and drug trafficking.
© SanlamAllianz Africa CEO Heinie Werth. Photo supplied

VALUE ADD

Premium badgeCEO Heinie Werth: Sanlam-Allianz joint venture a long-term play in Africa SanlamAllianz Africa is a newly launched holding company domiciled in South Africa with a commitment to the whole continent, according to the CEO.
A person stacks cases of bottles containing alcohol at an informal a brewing facility that makes fake whisky, brandy, vodka and other spirits, in Harare, Zimbabwe March 23, 2023 REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo

still traditional

Premium badgeWhisky or vodka? Study reveals Africans’ alcohol consumption habits Africa’s demographic growth is whetting the appetite of alcohol sector leaders Heineken, Diageo, and AB InBev.
Italians evacuated from Niger arrive at Ciampino Airport, near Rome

Cut off

Premium badgeNiger still isolated after airports reopening Air France, Turkish Airlines and pan-African airline Asky have not returned to Niamey, despite the reopening of Niger’s skies to commercial flights ea...
Sima Gabon Gabon’s transitional Prime Minister Raymond Ndong Sima in Libreville, 10 September 2023 ©AFP

two year deadline

Premium badgeGabon’s new Prime Minister Raymond Ndong Sima: ‘I hesitated’ Heading Gabon’s new government, ex-opposition member Raymond Ndong Sima has taken up his post as prime minister of the transition.
Zimbabwe’s new president Emmerson Mnangagwa and his wife Auxillia in 2017. (Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko)

Nepo babies

Premium badgeZimbabwe: Ignoring the party, Mnangagwa selects his friends and family cabinet Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa has stocked the cabinet with friends and relatives, an official change from his first term.
FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu waves at a crowd, during his swearing-in ceremony in Abuja FILE PHOTO: Nigerian President Bola Tinubu waves at a crowd, during his swearing-in ceremony in Abuja, Nigeria, May 29, 2023. ©REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja

Indigenous pressure

Premium badgeNigeria: Court ruling reignites clamour for Abuja’s state-status After Nigeria’s presidential election court ruled that the capital should be treated like a 37th state, Abuja’s original inhabitants are calling for a...
FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: Cocoa beans are pictured next to a warehouse at the village of Atroni, near Sunyani © FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: Cocoa beans are pictured next to a warehouse at the village of Atroni, near Sunyani, Ghana April 11, 2019. Picture taken April 11, 2019. REUTERS/Ange Aboa/File Photo/File Photo – RC2353A8341Z

Not enough

Premium badgeGhana: Cocoa farmers still disgruntled despite hiked price The announcement on 9 September that cocoa price went up from GH¢800 to GH¢1,308 ($113) per bag evoked mixed responses from farmers.
Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi © Presse présidentielle RDC

press freedom

No, Mr. Tshisekedi, a democracy does not imprison journalists The imprisonment of Stanis Bujakera Tshiamala, our correspondent in Kinshasa, is a severe breach of the press freedom that the Congolese president cla...
Fuel prices increase again in Kenya, as people are trying to make ends meet. (Reuters/Baz Ratner)

'reckless and insensitive'

Kenyans angry over minister’s utterances on fuel price hikes Kenyans have been told to tighten their belts again even as they continue reeling from the high cost of living from increased taxation.
jad20230905-eco-rdc-compagnies-minieres-dechues-1256×628-1693996369 © The Frontier copper mine at Sakania, on the border with Zambia in Haut-Katanga province. Gwenn Dubourthoumieu for JA

huge blow

DRC: Cancelling operating rights of 29 mining companies stirs controversy The Congolese government’s decision, for which no reasons were given, raises many questions, causing great concern in localities.