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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...
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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...
Vaccination against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Cairo

African-made vaccines

BioNTech to produce vaccines in Africa The German laboratory BioNTech has announced that mobile production units for its Covid-19 vaccine will be shipped to Africa. In the long term, this s...

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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...
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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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© 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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A woman receives a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine during a mass vaccination exercise at Wuse market in Abuja

health sovereignty

Africa’s health security requires strong African regulators The Covid-19 pandemic has taught us many lessons about health security – not the least that, when health resources are scarce, African countries canno...
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Clock Ticking

Premium badgeCoal consumption is on the rise, so South Africa must kickstart renewables, analysts say Forecasts from the International Energy Agency (IEA) that South Africa’s coal consumption is set to increase show that not enough is being done to mak...
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follow the golden road

Premium badgeFrom Kampala to Dubai, Africa’s new gold routes Gold is the ultimate safe haven, and its price has soared as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. After peaking at $66,000 in August 2020, a kilo of the...
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I’m still standing

Premium badgeDRC: Has the economy made its comeback? The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which has a long history of poor economic performance, is recovering. Not only did it manage to avoid a recess...
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Combining forces

Premium badgeEcobank: Francophone Africa operations close the gap with the Anglophone zone Although Nigeria has been dethroned as the primary source of revenue for the pan-African banking group Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI), the t...
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RINGING CHANGES     

Premium badgePlanned Vodafone Egypt acquisition strengthens Vodacom’s Africa vision Vodacom Group has received minority shareholder backing to acquire a 55% stake in Vodafone Egypt for $2.7bn. The transaction furthers the group’s ambi...