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© Maxwell Hwayo, 52, shops at a grocery store in Harare, Zimbabwe, March 17, 2022. Picture taken March 17, 2022. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo

Buy now, pay later

Africa: BNPL is an innovation our industry needs to get right

Buy now, pay later (BNPL), a payment plan that allows consumers to make purchases and spread the payment over time is gaining ground in Africa. Factor...

Central Bank of Nigeria’s logo is seen on the headquarters building in Abuja

Money Supply

Premium badgeSteve Hanke: African central banks have tools to beat stagflation, aren’t using them African central banks have the ability to help protect their countries from the global shock to prices triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Stev...
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General, World Trade Organisation

free radical

Premium badgeNgozi Okonjo-Iweala: ‘I hope the tensions won’t lead to World War III!’ As multiple crises gnaw away at global unity, the director-general of the World Trade Organisation talks to The Africa Report about geopolitics, vacci...
An aircraft from South African low cost airline Kulula takes off from Cape Town International airport © An aircraft from South African low cost airline Kulula takes off from Cape Town International airport 15 September 2015. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings

CAPITAL REFUELLING

Premium badgeAirlines: South Africa’s Comair to unveil funding plan by end of March – CEO Orsmond   Comair, which is a British Airways franchisee in Southern Africa and the owner of low-cost airline Kulula, will go to market with its latest fund-rais...

Coronavirus top stories

© Prudential sees health insurance as a growth market in Africa. REUTERS/Francis Kokoroko

Stress Test

Premium badgePrudential 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, t...
Streetlights illuminate the central business district in Cape Town

Red Tape Artists

Premium badgeSouth Africa: Tour operators sound the alert as bureaucracy chokes recovery South Africa risks shooting itself in the foot as regulatory failings for the licensing of tour operators cripple the industry’s capacity to respond t...

fears revived

Premium badgeShould we stop making a fuss about African debt? The economic consequences of the Covid-19 crisis have revived fears about the indebtedness of African countries. Is this alarmism justified? We invest...

Coronavirus top stories

© Prudential sees health insurance as a growth market in Africa. REUTERS/Francis Kokoroko

Stress Test

Premium badgePrudential 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, t...
Streetlights illuminate the central business district in Cape Town

Red Tape Artists

Premium badgeSouth Africa: Tour operators sound the alert as bureaucracy chokes recovery South Africa risks shooting itself in the foot as regulatory failings for the licensing of tour operators cripple the industry’s capacity to respond t...

fears revived

Premium badgeShould we stop making a fuss about African debt? The economic consequences of the Covid-19 crisis have revived fears about the indebtedness of African countries. Is this alarmism justified? We invest...

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U.S. Secretary of State Blinken visits Rabat © US secretary of state Antony Blinken arrives to meet with Morocco’s prime minister Aziz Akhannouch at the Mishwar in Rabat, Morocco, 29 March 2022. Jacquelyn Martin/Pool via REUTERS

Department of peacemaking

Premium badgeUS/Africa: Secretary of state Blinken woos Algeria and Morocco for help with Russia US Secretary of state Antony Blinken is overseeing a sensitive mediation in North Africa this week as President Joe Biden’s administration looks to en...
TAR119_OPCOL Looking death in the eye. © Adria Fruitos for The Africa Report

Dealing with the end

Nigerian writer Elnathan John: Look death in the eye You had only known Graham for a short while, only a couple of months since you first met him at the home of a mutual acquaintance, the oldest person i...
Firefox_Screenshot_2022-03-18T15-13-12.626Z Congolese workers working at the Africa Congo Milling Company mill, a subsidiary of Terra, member of the Somika group, in Kinsevere, about 10km from Lubumbashi, the capital of the Katanga mining province in the DRC, on 23 February 2015. © Gwenn Dubourthoumieu for JA

Searching for alternatives

Premium badgeAfDB proposes $1bn plan to move away from Russian wheat This $1bn financial package would help avert food shortages in Africa by enabling the agricultural sector’s development, according to the AfDB.
© Côte d’Ivoire PM Patrick Achi and US secretary of state Antony Blinken (rights reserved)

Diplomatic mission

Premium badgeCôte d’Ivoire prime minister Patrick Achi presses for investment, security aid in US visit Prime Minister of Côte d’Ivoire Patrick Achi visited Washington this week to press for US investment and security assistance as the West African count...
Firefox_Screenshot_2022-03-16T11-44-25.998Z Ali Bongo in Libreville, 12 March 2022. © Gabon Presidency

Looming election

Premium badgeGabon’s President Ali Bongo Ondimba sets his sights on 2023 The approach was nothing new. However, a firm decision had been made. On 12 March at 10:30 am, Gabon’s President Ali Bongo Ondimba made his way to the...
Firefox_Screenshot_2022-02-21T12-18-38.691Z IMF’s managing director Kristalina Georgieva meets with the DRC’s President Felix Tshisekedi in Kinshasa, DRC, 8 December 2021. © Hereward Holland/REUTERS

shot in the arm

Premium badgeIMF MD Georgieva: ‘We must build African economies with a strong immune system’ The EU-AU summit took place in Brussels on 17 and 18 February. As such, the IMF’s managing director Kristalina Georgieva explains the role that the in...