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Broken Supply Chains

Food inflation may be Nigeria’s biggest hit from Covid-19

Supply-chain disruption caused by Covid-19 has laid bare Nigeria’s structural inability to produce and distribute enough food. ...

Much work left to do

Covid-19: Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame lobbies for the African Medicines Agency

Only two African countries have ratified the African Union's treaty for the creation of the African Medicines Agency, two years after its adoption. ... However, Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame intends to make up for this delay.

Digital Health

Beyond Covid-19: The Future of e-health in Africa

Africa’s healthcare systems have been under pressure to fight the Covid-19 pandemic as well as the threat of other diseases such as malaria, ... Ebola and HIV/AIDS.

Power to unite

Tanzania: ‘Suluhu may be the lady President who delivers a new constitution’ – Tundu Lissu

Since the official news was announced of the death of Tanzania's President John Magufuli, many are waiting with bated breath to see if the country's ... new president, Samia Hassan Suluhu, will steer the country on the same path as her former boss or take a different approach. Tundu Lissu, head of the opposition party Chadema, argues she has the power to give Tanzania a democratic foundation.

Coronavirus top stories

Back to Bongo

Gabon: Corruption, succession, elections… President Bongo opens up

Equity Bank's Chief Executive Officer James Mwangi is seen during a Reuters interview in Nairobi

Banking on Recovery

South African and Kenyan banks may beat Nigeria to post-Covid recovery

Early signs

Tanzania: Cautious optimism as President Suluhu Hassan signals new policies

Back to Bongo

Gabon: Corruption, succession, elections… President Bongo opens up

Equity Bank's Chief Executive Officer James Mwangi is seen during a Reuters interview in Nairobi

Banking on Recovery

South African and Kenyan banks may beat Nigeria to post-Covid recovery

Early signs

Tanzania: Cautious optimism as President Suluhu Hassan signals new policies

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end of an era

Tanzania: The legacy of Magufuli and the beginning for Suluhu

The death of Tanzania's President John Magufuli came at time when the country was feeling the pinch of its autocratic regime. But at the start ... of his first term, his hands-on management style, honed in his years as the country’s works minister, endeared him to a population that had long given up on the idea of visionary leadership like under Julius Nyerere in the decades after independence.

Ghana's President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo l

Purse Strings

Ghana may struggle to borrow targeted $5bn in 2021, say analysts

Ghana may struggle to raise the full $5bn it wants to borrow from international markets this year given the scale of its debts, analysts say. ...

clear skies

Rwanda: ‘RwandAir not profitable, but catalytic for economy’ – finance minister

Rwanda is pumping money into the tourism sector, which has badly been hit by Covid-19 says Minister of Finance and Economic Planning Uzziel Ndagijimana. ... He believes the partnership between RwandAir and Qatar Airways will help put the country in a better place to benefit from the post-Covid economic upswing.

Struck down in his prime

Côte d’Ivoire: Prime minister Hamed Bakayoko struck down at the height of his career

Côte d’Ivoire’s prime minister Hamed Bakayoko, whose death was announced on 10 March, appeared to be one of the most likely candidates to ... succeed President Alassane Ouattara.

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Loans and longevity

Standard Chartered’s Bola Adesola: ‘No other bank is as invested in Africa as we are’

Nigerian banker Bola Adesola, Standard Chartered's senior vice-president for Africa, talks about the London-listed bank's strategies and priorities ... – assuring that the hundred-year-old bank can still innovate.

the rule of law

Tanzania’s Magufuli remains absent, so will VP Samia Hassan Suluhu take over?

With no confirmed comments from Tanzania’s government about the whereabouts or health status of President John Magufuli, all eyes are now on ... vice-president Samia Hassan Suluhu.

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