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Editorial: Surviving Transitions

A gaggle of suited professionals was chatting animatedly in a bar on the top floor of a skyscraper with stunning views across the city as dusk ... morphed into mid-evening.

Nigeria: Ten years of transition

Nigeria may have managed to break the habit of military rule for a full ten years, but there is discontent with missed opportunities ...

Tourism: Rebuild the image and they will come

A strong tourist infrastructure and plenty of natural attractions hold the most promise of quickly bringing foreign exchange into Zimbabwe's ... economy

Agriculture: A new class of farmer

Output of Southern Africa's former breadbasket has nose-dived, but getting seeds, fertiliser and equipment into the hands of Zimbabwe's farmers ... will restart the rattled economy

Interview: Morgan Tsvangirai, Prime Minister

Zimbabwe's Prime Minister speaking in July 2009 on power-sharing, security and Western aid. ...

Mining: Bring in the earth movers

Despite the economic and political turmoil, international mining houses have not taken their eyes off Zimbabwe's choice reserv ...

Diamonds: Military ready to cede control

The furore over the military's control of the Chiadza diamond fields in Marange, eastern Zimbabwe, points to wider tensions over economic and political ... reforms.

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Nigeria: Tinubu receives medical checkup at Paris hospital

Reskilling Energy

South African wind power can help absorb coal industry job losses, Siemens Gamesa says

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Ali Haddad and the mystery of the $10 million in US lobbying

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Finance: Banks set for a shake-up

To meet new capital requirements, banks that already have or are seeking international links are best placed to profit from the rise in commerce ... the government hopes to create

Businesses that weathered the storm

Industrialists are a bullish breed and believe Zimbabwe will quickly regain its role as second largest economy in Southern Africa. ...

The long view: South America’s conditional cash transfer experience

Cash rewards to families that send their kids to school and try to keep them healthy have proven successful; their application in Brazil is ... now being reassessed to make them work better

The Akan shrine near the White House

How some African-Americans in Washington DC look to Ghana for spiritual enlightenment as well as contact with ?the ancestors and the African ... gods of nature

Ghana/US: A stormy relationship comes good

Relations between Accra and Washington have see-sawed between extremes. ...

Profile: Gabon’s presidential contenders

Ali Ben Bongo, Minister of Defence - Pascaline Bongo, former head of the presidential cabinet - Pierre Mamboundou, Leader of the Union du Peuple ... Gabonais

Gabon: Keep the petrol flowing to French tanks

Gabon's former President Omar Bongo Ondimba is remembered for a particular turn of phrase: "Africa without France is like a car without a driver. ... France without Africa is a car without gasoline."

Gabon: Country without a boss

After the death of Omar Bongo Ondimba and with oil revenues beginning to slow, ?Gabon is at an unfamiliar and potentially destabilising ... crossroads

Interview: Kofi Annan on climate change

Kofi Annan?, Former UN Secretary-General on the road to the Copenhagen Climate Summit in December 2009 ...

Climate Change: Africa fights back on its own terms

An energetic array of green initiatives is sprouting up across Africa to protect natural resources, harness sustainable energy and spur ... green growth.

Mo Ibrahim: A way forward for Darfur

For too long there has been a tedency to view the Darfur issue in isolation. The conflict is symptomatic of broader governance failures that ... affect the entire country of Sudan.

A long way to go

Having proudly followed Ghana into independence in 1958, raising the hopes of pan-Africanists everywhere, Guineans have been let down by their ... rulers over ?the past 50 years

Interview: Nkosana Moyo

The Vice President of the African Development Bank speaks to The Africa Report about Africa in the Crisis alongside articles from our archives ... on the impact the crisis is having in Africa.

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