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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. ...

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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.

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.

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Is a Covid vaccine against all variants possible? Immunologist Lbachir BenMohamed believes so

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DRC: President Tshisekedi finally forms a government

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Africa: All the buzz about edible insects

universal shot

Is a Covid vaccine against all variants possible? Immunologist Lbachir BenMohamed believes so

New team

DRC: President Tshisekedi finally forms a government

popular delicacy

Africa: All the buzz about edible insects

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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.

A touching farewell

Côte d’Ivoire: Prime minister Hamed Bakayoko’s final days

Hospitalised in Germany, Côte d'Ivoire's prime minister Hamed Bakayoko died on 10 March. Sister magazine Jeune Afrique's publication director ... Marwane Ben Yahmed, who had a close relationship with him, recounts his final weeks and pays tribute to him.

Raila Odinga, African Union (AU) High Representative for Infrastructure Development in Africa

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Kenya faces third Covid wave as Raila Odinga hospitalised

Opposition leader Raila Odinga confirmed he has tested positive for Covid-19 as Kenya faces a third wave of infections. ...

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Women in power make decisions differently – Melinda Gates

Every year, the world marks International Women's Day. But do we still need such a day to advance women's rights? Melinda Gates talks to The ... Africa Report about why there's still much work ahead of us, and why we should be proud of how far women have come.

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Who are the biggest winners and losers of the COVID-19 pandemic?

If people can agree that the five-sided crisis of the Covid-19 pandemic – public health, environmental, social development, political and economic ... – is the biggest test facing the world for a century, far fewer concur on the way forward.

James Duddridge MP, UK Minister for Africa with Cabinet Secretary Betty C Maina, Ministry of Industrialization, Trade and Enterprise Development, Kenya at Flamingo Horticulture, Nairobi.

London calling

‘We have to stand up, but we can’t preach’, says UK minister for Africa James Duddridge

As the UK forges a new set of global partnerships post-Brexit, questions remain over its commitment to the continent after the reduction in the ... aid budget. But the UK's minister for Africa James Duddridge argues that African countries see the UK as a long term partner and that historical and financial ties remain as strong as ever.

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