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    • Friday, 14 July, 2023
      Vladimir Putin
      Ramaphosa will try to dissuade Putin from attending Johannesburg Brics meeting

      South Africa obliged to arrest Russia’s president over war crimes indictment

    • Friday, 14 July, 2023
      Europe Express
      EU and Tunisia in ‘difficult’ negotiations over migration deal Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: Why Emmanuel Macron will stay silent this Bastille Day

    • Thursday, 13 July, 2023
      David Pilling
      Nigeria’s recovery might be a better bet than South Africa’s

      The two giants have faced a decade of woe but one has a better chance of turning a corner

    • Thursday, 13 July, 2023
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      Wagner faces challenge in African stronghold

      Divisive vote in Central African Republic is first serious test for the mercenary group since Yevgeny Prigozhin’s mutiny

    • Wednesday, 12 July, 2023
      Egypt
      Egypt announces $1.9bn sale of state assets

      First significant privatisations aimed at raising foreign currency revenue to shore up its pound

    • Wednesday, 12 July, 2023
      News in-depthKenya
      ‘We must tighten our belts’: Kenya searches for cash to meet debt bills

      Nairobi insists ‘default is not an option’ as it rushes to avoid fate of African peers such as Zambia and Ghana

    • Monday, 10 July, 2023
      Mozambique
      Mozambique ex-minister set for US extradition over $2bn ‘tuna bonds’ scandal

      Loans for maritime projects devastated economy and led directly to nation defaulting on its sovereign debt

    • Monday, 10 July, 2023
      Senegal
      African leaders tell Putin to show his ‘desire for peace’

      Senegal president presses Moscow for humanitarian ‘progress’ ahead of Russia-Africa summit

    • Friday, 7 July, 2023
      World Health Organization
      WHO urged to pay reparations to DR Congo sexual assault victims

      Judge leading review says health body’s response to scandal ‘was not sufficient’

    • Friday, 7 July, 2023
      David Adjaye
      David Adjaye gave names of alleged abuse victims to Ghanaian government

      High-profile architect fights to save reputation after FT investigation

    • Thursday, 6 July, 2023
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      Tunisia accused of dumping migrants on Libya border

      Hundreds said to be trapped in desert with no food or water while EU tries to stem flow

    • Thursday, 6 July, 2023
      Six films to watch this week
      The Damned Don’t Cry — sad and brilliant story of striving souls in Morocco

      Vintage Hollywood melodrama is evoked in Fyzal Boulifa’s drama about a once-glamorous mother and her teenage son

    • Thursday, 6 July, 2023
      The Big Read
      Artisanal mining: the struggle to clean up a murky industry

      Small-scale miners in the Democratic Republic of Congo are risking their lives to source a metal critical for the energy transition

    • Thursday, 6 July, 2023
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      Protecting elephants in the Congo River Basin

      Latin America’s bonds and currencies lure yield-hungry investors

    • Wednesday, 5 July, 2023
      Tirana Hassan
      The UK’s convenient silence on Rwanda

      Atrocious human rights abuses by the M23 armed group are being downplayed

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      Tracking the gorillas of the Congo Basin

      Swiss authorities question potential breach of Russian sanctions

    • Tuesday, 4 July, 2023
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      Justin Welby leads UK faith leaders in criticism of immigration bill

      Archbishop of Canterbury urges Sunak to develop an asylum system based on ‘justice and compassion’

    • Tuesday, 4 July, 2023
      Middle Eastern politics & society
      Turkey and Egypt upgrade diplomatic ties as relations thaw

      Ambassadors appointed to each other’s capitals for first time in a decade after rupture over coup in Cairo

    • Monday, 3 July, 2023
      Senegal
      Macky Sall says he will not run for third term as Senegal president

      Political tension defused with surprise withdrawal by incumbent in the face of protests and riots

    • Monday, 3 July, 2023
      Satellites
      Space-based lightning detector boosts forecasting of severe storms

      European satellite’s advanced technology aims to help protect communities from extreme weather

    • Saturday, 1 July, 2023
      Mining
      De Beers and Botswana strike deal on diamond sales after tense talks

      Negotiations had raised uncertainty over strategic value of miner for owner Anglo American

    • Friday, 30 June, 2023
      South Africa
      Ramaphosa cleared of wrongdoing over Phala Phala theft

      State ombudsman says no evidence South African president abused his power over incident at his private game farm

    • Friday, 30 June, 2023
      Inside Politics
      Rwanda plan flaws are not separate from moral argument against it

      Threats to freedom and democracy are behind pragmatic shortcomings of policy to curb small boat crossings

    • Friday, 30 June, 2023
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      African Head Charge: A Trip to Bolgatanga — sounds of rural Ghana

      The duo transport listeners to the country’s northern region on their first album in more than a decade

    • Thursday, 29 June, 2023
      UK immigration
      Ministers seek to overturn ruling against UK migration plan

      Court of Appeal finds that scheme to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda is unlawful

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