• The price of minerals
  • Yellowcake shutdown
  • PROFILE: Carlos Lopes: A leading climate voice
  • Russian sanctions-busters find a Gambian haven
  • Global and regional conflicts hit economies
  • Debt and inflation drag Bawumia down
  • Facing calls for reform, the state hits back
  • Mnangagwa takes on the army
  • Boko wins big
  • Leaders look for deals in the Trump marketplace
  • High stakes but low ambitions at Baku’s geopolitical climate summit
  • A change of the dynastic guard
  • Defence Minister insists Ethiopia not be part of new AU mission
  • Mondlane’s protests face critical moment following mass demonstrations in Maputo
  • Touadéra’s balancing act
  • It’s the economy, Macron!
  • All roads lead to Maputo
  • Ahead of the US elections, African bankers and generals hired pro-Trump lobbyists
  • IMF grants latest tranche of $600m but warns of ‘difficult balancing act’
  • Abiy plays down threat of conflict over Red Sea access
  • Mnangagwa’s circle is lobbying for third term
  • Cultural and political battles break out as the stolen bronzes come home
  •  A rare ruling party congress
  • Divided they stand
  • PROFILE: Mondlane takes opposition personally
  • Accra jumps through more debt hoops
  • The Bank sounds alarms on lost decade
  • Mixed progress on Putin’s agenda
  • From Abu Dhabi with Dirham
  • Fears mount as election row escalates
  • No policy shifts as Tinubu reshuffles
  • Outgoing Commonwealth chief is pushing for Zimbabwe’s readmission
  • Opposition cries foul over elections contract to firm in graft probe
  • Ankara makes its pitch for African influence
  • New constitution looks set to keep military power entrenched
  • In power for six decades, the ruling BDP promises change
  • Ruto’s impeachment of his Deputy starts to backfire
  • Race tightens as African contenders vie for top post
  • Kigali tightens its security grip as Nyusi bows out
  • Grain and credit ratings at the heart of Putin’s plan
  • Sisi threatens push back on IMF terms
  • Opposition cries foul over latest brutal attack and poll rigging
  • Activists organise national protests as Frelimo claims victory
  • Why Mnangagwa’s gold-backed currency keeps falling
  • PROFILE: Djibouti’s quiet man
  • Mountain doesn’t go to Gachagua
  • Fortress EU within and without
  • A two-horse race
  • The gold rush that poisons politics
  • Austerity hits foreign policy reset
  • Junta’s stance threatens uranium exports
  • Evidence of vote stealing mounts
  • Tinubu dismantles the opposition in Edo
  • Fight for Darfur and Khartoum intensifies
  • Fear and loathing off and on the campaign trail
  • Questioning Biya’s health now illegal as speculation grows on absent President
  • Ouattara ups the ante on the eco
  • More cops will be sent but cash is needed
  • Mahamat Kaka’s Darfur policy starts blowing back
  • Mondlane’s vote surge overturns the status quo
  • Wild card Mondlane tests ruling party’s election tactics
  • Kaïs Saïed gets his landslide but millions ignore the vote
  • Why is South Africa challenging Zambia’s bid for the AfDB Presidency?
  • Macron fails to broker Kinshasa-Kigali talks at Francophone summit
  • Faulty funding
  •  A web of disinformation
  • Goma under siege
  • Talon turns on his allies
  • Nguema’s expensive balancing act
  • The presidential circle shrinks
  • The deputy takes the fall
  • Biya missing in action
  • Manufacturing consent and criminalising dissent
  • Making multilateralism work by other means
  • Françafrique’s high priest gives up his secrets
  • Businesses are panicking after latest crash in the ZiG’s value against the US dollar
  • Financing a debt to nature
  • Burhan ups the stakes as army bombs UAE diplomatic building
  • Von der Leyen’s latest team lacks Africa vision
  • Bio rids himself of a turbulent auditor
  • Salva Kiir extends his rule as the oil cash runs out
  • Border control crackdown points to cooperation with the EU on migration
  • Floods worsen humanitarian crisis as west eyes deals on troop returns
  • Tebboune hires lobbyists with Republican and Israeli links
  • Diomaye Faye asks the people for a bigger mandate
  • Beijing leads battle for influence
  • Gas or hot air?
  • VP crash pilots ‘lost’
  • President Macron plans military cuts
  • Tensions around farcical leadership battle
  • MK pins its hopes on Shivambu
  • Middle powers line up behind Addis and Mogadishu
  • Home-grown reforms and political muscle seal $3.4bn IMF deal
  • Three old hats in the presidential ring
  • Khama returns to face court cases and boost opposition election campaign
  • Diomaye Faye goes back to the polls to end parliamentary impasse
  • After mass protests, top cop stays schtum on abduction charges
  • Raila’s exit deal highlights Ruto’s co-option of the opposition
  • Vaccine shortfall risks spread of deadly new mpox strain
  • How Tigray is turning on itself
  • Washington bids to counter China’s and Russia’s military offers
  • Military-backed Tebboune gets a Stalin-esque landslide
  • Murder of Chadema official sends chilling warning to opposition
  • Poll hopes fade
  • Value for metals
  • A selective war on graft
  • Abiy pushes radical reforms for debt deal
  • Africa Confidential prompts probe of business school scheme
  • Incapable of defeating each other, the generals fight on
  • Swiss dead-end prompts policy rethink
  • Beijing’s green new deal pledges factories in Africa
  • Oil output collapses as central bank stand-off continues
  • Kagame unleashes new military purge
  • Djibouti offers Abiy a coastal compromise as tensions escalate
  • Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin builds on Wagner’s propaganda legacy
  • After African lobbying, the UN wins battle over tax rules
  • Luanda’s oil revival wins more backers after $6bn Kwanza development
  • Ruto and Raila combine to take African Union leadership
  • Delays to Mpox vaccine supplies raise concerns
  • Ruto loyalists plot new laws to stifle protests
  • Zuma’s party trains its guns on the EFF following major defection
  • The Ruto-Raila trade-off redraws the electoral map
  • The threat of the hangman’s noose
  • Ben-Menashe heads to Gaborone
  • Al Shabaab adaptability causes alarm
  • Freetown’s business school buys $4.5m hole in the bush
  • Back to bulldozer politics
  • Faye mulls a snap parliamentary poll
  • Dangote and Tinubu wrestle over the future of oil
  • Dollars still dominate the economy despite the launch of the ZiG
  • Mutharika sets up election rerun
  • UN tax convention moves closer but African diplomats fail to win new support
  • Faye faces criticism on media freedom
  • Paranoia on show as Harare hosts summit
  • Burhan risks isolation by boycotting Geneva peace talks
  • Kenyatta’s favourite minister plans presidential bid
  • Egypt plans to make Olympic bid despite fears over costs
  • Kyiv counts diplomatic costs of ambush boasts
  • Wave of arrests points to pre-election crackdown
  • As the protests rage, Tinubu risks losing the north
  • Chastened ANC pins the blame on Jacob Zuma
  • Ratings downgrade adds to pressure on new Treasury minister Mbadi
  • Protests dent Tinubu’s reputation further – but neither side can claim victory
  • A pawn in a zero-sum game
  • Farewell to the kora master
  • EU envoy to great lakes
  • Shots and plots
  • Privinvest on the hook
  • Moscow sees a year of transition
  • Central bank floats birr to secure IMF deal
  • Raila names his price
  • Hurdles for Progressive Caucus
  • Days of rage protests test Tinubu’s economic plans
  • Emmanuel Macron’s Saharan mystery
  • Protesters mobilise over fate of democracy activists
  • President confirms deep freeze with Kenya
  • Abiy agrees $3.4bn IMF deal
  • Central bank fights to slow inflation and protect its independence
  • Imagination deficit limits continental ties
  • Hichilema’s anti-corruption plan in disarray after claims against senior figures
  • Ratings plan gets serious
  • Ruto battens down the hatches ahead of protests
  • Opposition targeted as Museveni regime fears protests
  • After arresting his rivals, Saïed will run for another presidential term
  • Djibouti joins fight against the Abiy-Bihi pact
  • More Soviet than usual
  • Samia reshuffles the troops
  • A hunter in aviation
  • Coming soon – a month of rage
  • Concerns multiply over Mnangagwa's secretive wealth fund
  • The markets bet on Ramaphosa's grand coalition
  • Ruto struggles to regain control
  • Kinshasa urges sanctions on Kigali citing damning UN report
  • New satellite deal entrenches Israeli defence pact
  • Saïed clears the field of challengers
  • Ramaphosa changes tack, urging African states to decarbonise economies
  • Tigray war accord isn’t ending the fighting over Amhara border
  • Burhan’s forces falter as Hemeti takes more ground
  • As the civil war threatens the region, the UAE boosts Hemeti’s militia
  • The influence brokers take a pay cut
  • Egypt-backed peace talks make slow progress
  • Ruto pledges cuts on state budgets and anti-graft action as he struggle to assert control
  • The juntas take on the civilian presidents
  • Against the odds, can the new ZiG currency tame inflation?
  • What price an Africa agenda?
  • Ghazouani gets second term
  • End of the loan line
  • The juntas dig in as instability worsens
  • Political glitches hold up reforms
  • Gargantuan debt servicing poses threat
  • After the protestors won the tax war
  • How the fiscal squeeze threatens the patronage machine
  • Arusha comes to the rescue
  • Turkey hosts first round of talks on port row
  • State miner opposes new China sale
  • Ignoring abuses, Brussels courts El Sisi with energy funds 
  • Tinubu’s government braces for Kenya-style protests
  • ISIS breaks out of its Puntland base
  • Abiy Ahmed’s sovereignty deal with Muse Abdi risks more regional turmoil
  • Youth revolt wins after Ruto scraps finance bill and pledges talks
  • Niamey junta cancels France’s Orano permit in uranium mine
  • Military chief sets out Washington’s stall to win over new partners on the continent
  • Ruto faces escalating crisis as many shot in Gen Z’s mass protests against tax hikes
  • Government pushes better economy story to swing election back to Bawumia
  • Pro-Kigali propagandists caught using Artificial Intelligence tools
  • Running the tax show in New York
  • Bonn talks deadlock on finance
  • Turkey’s power boost
  • Bolloré back
  • A landslide victory foretold, again
  • A fragile recovery
  • No plaudits for anti-corruption supremo
  • Growth boost may speed up debt accord
  • The centre is holding – for now
  • Stalemate on climate finance talks irks African negotiators
  • Kinshasa gets a new business Poynt man
  • Terrorism and cyber fraud targeted as FBI chief lands in Africa
  • Abiy tries to restart liberalisation agenda
  • Summit host Meloni fails to back promises with cash
  • Calls grow to regulate ballooning carbon credits
  • The ANC stitches together a pro-market coalition
  • Battle for presidency splits the Kano emirate
  • Patrice Talon tests strength of General Tiani’s junta
  • New President Faye passes the market test
  • Praising Moscow, Mnangagwa accuses US of backing Zambia’s military
  • At its summit, Seoul gets critical mineral deal but no debt accord
  • Will the Buganda kingdom tilt the vote against Museveni?
  • Court out of cash
  • One party in a state
  • Pitching for De Beers
  • Elon Musk’s Harare network
  • Adesina urges the bank to go private
  • Inching towards the end of the tunnel
  • Debt and drought weigh down economy
  • Government’s man subverts the resistance
  • Choices get starker after the ANC vote crash
  • Talon flirts with a third term
  • Moscow changes sides
  • A Lungu family crackdown
  • A disputed levy
  • Foregone electoral conclusion cements Kaka's grip
  • Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
  • Abiy keeps Addis on side but alienates the nation
  • West set on banishing Moscow's forces from Bangui
  • How Western Cape tested the opposition's coalition strategy
  • Special Prosecutors past and present
  • Inquiry into claims of British army abuses goes public
  • Whitehall's migrant deal with Kigali set to collapse
  • Ruto revels in the western embrace
  • BHP's 'final' bid for Anglo set for election day
  • Ruto (and Raila's) man in Addis
  • Faye's diplomatic rounds
  • Ins and outs in Cabo Delgado
  • Playing off rivals
  • How Chapo won the anti-Nyusi vote
  • Tinubu weighs politics vs competence
  • On the back foot in Gauteng
  • Ouattara risks his legacy if he runs again
  • US mulls Gertler deal to secure minerals
  • Tshisekedi unruffled in his labyrinth
  • Migrant control moves to North Africa
  • A failed coup with an American twist
  • US military influence faces growing pressure
  • Mogadishu gives the UN marching orders
  • A reckoning for the Ramaphosa party
  • Succès goes to court
  • Gbagbo bids to be last 'dinosaur' standing
  • The junta chooses isolation after the EU withdraws its mission
  • How family and the army dominate Museveni's endgame
  • No Bretton Woods moment
  • The prize goes to Chapo
  • Ruto's UDA in chaos
  • Veep graft case abandoned
  • HYPREP's no-shows
  • Elections and wars consume cash
  • SWAPO's prospects lag behind economy
  • Pollsters vie for credibility with politicians
  • The juntas are running out of excuses
  • Crypto cross words
  • Parliamentary speaker flounders in corruption saga
  • Pay to get out, regulator tells oil and gas giants
  • New diplomatic chill between US and Kigali over M23
  • Odinga finally breaks ranks over floods crisis
  • The Gnassingbé dynasty prolongs its grip on the state
  • Coup zone election pits votes against tanks
  • Yet another changing of the guard
  • Mining colossus Gécamines hires lobbyists to boost bargaining with Washington
  • Mystery surrounds Brussels migration deal with Abuja
  • Quid pro quo diplomacy
  • Gaborone turns down London after Rwanda law comes into force
  • State House has a problem with Nairobi's political boss
  • Premier Meloni woos President Saïed
  • How authoritarianism and sycophancy damage the energy industry
  • Funds raised but no political progress at the Paris conference
  • Chakwera furious at US visa ban
  • Yellowcake woes
  • Polls fail to brighten outlook
  • Keeping it in the family
  • Cardoso plans a brave new banking world
  • Reformers reach a turning point
  • After the general crashes, a reshuffle
  • Zuma challenges the ANC in his base
  • Facing no pressure, the generals escalate their war again
  • President Mahamat considers the Russian bear hug
  • Keeping a grip on the presidencies
  • Fighting in Darfur risks humanitarian disaster, warns UN
  • UN agency warns against African Eurobonds
  • Washington targets Mnangagwa for rights abuses and corruption but sends mixed messages
  • Will Senegal's President Faye lead West Africa out of France's monetary zone?
  • After the pandemic panic, Big Pharma exits Africa
  • Brussels refuses to delay deforestation law, hitting Africa's cocoa and coffee farmers
  • Kyiv steps up its diplomatic effort
  • Taking the politics out of AGOA
  • Africa bids to enter the ratings war
  • Rival candidates stoke divisive rhetoric over anti-gay law
  • Shaky new ZiG money undermines IMF talks
  • Faure lobbies Washington
  • The battle for Odinga's ODM
  • Coalition talks divide ANC leaders
  • Austerity the price of debt workout dodge
  • Puntland risks fracturing the federation
  • Thirty years on, genocide haunts the region
  • Facing neither west nor east – but forwards
  • Oil broker James Ibori returns to Abuja stage
  • Anti-gay law has its days in court
  • A win for the Dos Santos clan
  • The missing man in Arusha
  • Probe of René-era corruption goes awry
  • Abacha consigliere in storm over $11 billion superhighway linking Lagos and Calabar
  • Biya's government blocks bids to unite opposition
  • The junta wants to claim Simandou's mega mine as its legacy
  • Puntland leaders oppose new federal system, challenging President Hassan Sheikh
  • Political stalemate persists as missiles target premier's house
  • Ministers hike cocoa bean prices by 50% to drive production
  • Anger as Geneva wins Fund fight
  • Court date for mine bosses
  • Re-opening the commission's wounds
  • A debt deal redux
  • Bribes row rocks parliament
  • A one-man diplomatic mission
  • Team Anti-Système takes over the system
  • Faye's victory shakes up the region
  • Hichilema and Akufo-Addo revive hopes of debt deal
  • Speaker puts the ANC in the dock
  • IGAD returns to Sudan negotiations with a peace envoy
  • General Tiani swaps the US for Russia
  • Politicking hinders the war effort
  • Museveni clears his son's path to the Presidency
  • Historic vote could set a new economic path
  • Fearing a regional meltdown, Brussels pays Egypt $7.4 billion
  • Mobutu-style economic nationalism returns
  • President Macron pledges to end to second-hand clothes trade
  • Quiet diplomacy doesn't work for sacked official
  • Tinubu demands swift justice following soldier slaying
  • Ceasefire efforts resume as Burhan's forces go on offensive
  • Telescoping the campaign
  • Book guts Goïta's junta
  • Tebboune seeks help
  • Pipeline to nowhere
  • Can mega discovery end debt impasse?
  • Addis enters the debt talks tunnel
  • How war sank the development plan
  • Parties prepare for the costliest election
  • It's the politics that counts
  • Cost-of-living crisis forces government rethink
  • Kaka paves a hard road to sham poll
  • Succès the spoiler
  • The tide swings against the ANC
  • To Russia without impeachment
  • Contenders spar in the waiting room
  • Missing the trees for the wood
  • A Sheafra of fake news
  • Kaka confirms presidential run three days after opposition leader is shot
  • Kigali pushes back against the African Union
  • How Brussels was caught out by the Kivu war
  • Ramaphosa and Mashatile clash on election date
  • Financial shades of grey
  • Hidden loans kingpin dies
  • Tuareg-Wagner clash in Libya?
  • Rifts threaten Bobi Wine's party
  • All eyes on 2025 – and the northern border
  • Israeli gas enters Sisi's Gaza calculations
  • Spiralling prices imperil Tinubu’s reforms
  • Enoch pulls a rabbit out of his fedora
  • Veterans seek a last hurrah in Addis
  • Regional fights hold back the union project
  • Ecowas buckles as it goes for regional unity
  • Carbon row heads to the World Trade Organization
  • Hassan Sheikh ups the ante in Ethiopia port dispute
  • Regional bloc backtracks on economic sanctions
  • Nation mourns the 'nearly man' Lowassa
  • Taking Amhara to Washington
  • Junta press-gangs the press
  • Fighting escalates in the Kivus and western officials censure Kagame
  • Slumping naira adds to pressure on Tinubu to change tack
  • Raila Odinga's bid for AU chair wins consensus in Nairobi
  • After Sall's U-turn, elections likely within two weeks
  • How the poor help the rich
  • China's base desires
  • In search of visa-free travel
  • Ghazouani is EU's new ally
  • A Valentine's Day reshuffle
  • Finding a perfect pitch
  • Ruto gambles on Eurobonds
  • Generals persist with banned arms deal
  • Biya's belt-tightening has risks
  • The region on the rack
  • Fury as Sall's vote delay unleashes mayhem
  • US helicopter crash robs Africa of one of its most ambitious bank chiefs
  • A new gold standard
  • Election crisis poses credibility test to regional bodies
  • UN breaks with scandal-hit pollution agency
  • Kanu's lobbyists for Biafra step up campaign
  • All eyes on KwaZulu-Natal
  • Western governments may pay price for inaction on war
  • Saïed demands central bank loans to plug deficit
  • Election delay triggers mass protests
  • Demeke's exit points to deepening rifts
  • Biden's man moves on
  • ANC pushes for elections
  • A crowded field
  • 14-year-old case reaches court
  • Global south wins at The Hague
  • Opposition in turmoil as Chamisa quits
  • Cash flows in but debt talks drag on
  • Shock therapy keeps the people waiting
  • Juntas in shock split from Ecowas
  • Why Tagadum could be a turning point
  • No bail-out on offer from Beijing
  • Juntas walk out of Ecowas claiming it's under western control
  • Meloni joins the race for influence in Africa
  • Judges sink Ruto's plan to send police to Haiti
  • Anatomy of a failed coup in Freetown
  • Shell leads oil majors' exit from the Niger Delta
  • The next stage in the battle over global tax rules
  • Fissures in the Horn triggered by UAE and Saudi Arabia sponsorship
  • Prime Minister Ba is poll favourite after court rules out Ousmane Sonko
  • US Secretary of State Blinken tours West Africa amid rising security worries
  • The return of the hard men
  • The Cairo price
  • Petrobras invests in oil sector
  • Abductions prompt security alert
  • Ofori-Atta claims big win
  • Harsh realities face Tshisekedi after vote
  • Biggest economies turn laggards
  • Judges stand up as Ruto takes them on
  • Royalty shows signs of stress
  • Global alliances trounce human rights
  • Genocide case tests the UN system
  • What hope for the juntas' promised elections?
  • Crisis talks due as airline clash escalates
  • Tshisekedi's ruling coalition strengthened after election
  • 'Genocide' court case threatens to open new geopolitical divisions
  • Why Abiy and Muse signed a 'memorandum of misunderstanding'
  • Oromo peace momentum falters
  • Not enough cops, too much corruption
  • Agreement likely on $5.4 billion debt restructure this week
  • Local firms protest state tactics in central bank probe
  • Ex-President Koroma faces treason charges as crisis deepens
  • Mahamat Kaka co-opts Succès in pre-election campaign
  • Kigali taps US hacker for new fight with Rusesabagina
  • Tebboune prepares to see off challengers
  • Turbulence above and below the surface
  • The end is nigh – sort of
  • Public's patience is running short
  • Frelimo set to steal polls again
  • The economy will tilt the election
  • Reality catches up with gambler Abiy
  • Harsh economics and geopolitics loom
  • Tinubu risks overplaying his hand
  • Austerity is no brake on Ruto's ambitions
  • Tumbling support for ANC ends liberation era
  • Sonko's long walk to the ballot box
  • Jacob Zuma's revenge
  • Hemeti joins rival in search for regional allies
  • Tshisekedi set for second term despite protests against 'sham' elections
  • Abiy races for funds after debt default
  • What did the UN COP28 Climate summit deliver for Africa?
  • Nairobi goes ahead with pioneering Brussels deal
  • Mahamat Déby's new constitution will reinforce central control
  • Tshisekedi favoured to retain Presidency in $1.2 billion elections
  • The ANC hones its strategy for election survival
  • No case for the prosecutor
  • Chaos reigns again
  • Cash for no influence
  • The case for reparations
  • Gold to Moscow
  • 'Corruption defence' in loans trial
  • Questions on electioneering budget
  • Opposition left outmanoeuvred
  • Preparing for an all-out fight in El Fasher
  • Auditor in the dock
  • Growing dissent pressures ANC from all angles
  • No end to the legal opposition's long vigil
  • A stroll for Sisi
  • Hassan Sheikh gets his debt deal
  • Koroma under house arrest as probe continues into coup attempt
  • China holds key to regional oil project
  • The 28th UN Conference of the Parties Climate Summit – a users' guide
  • Abdel Aziz goes to jail
  • Katumbi and Fayulu lead opposition field ahead of 20 December polls
  • London moves to salvage 'cash for asylum seekers' deal
  • Former ANC business brain may take over Moonshot Pact
  • Parliament in chaos over anti-Israel law
  • Central bank’s Cardoso faces policy fight
  • The Pademba putsch
  • Arrears all round
  • Court redistributes poll wins
  • Mix-up costs Juba envoy
  • Meagre record haunts Tshisekedi's plan
  • Junta falls out with its fanbase
  • Contenders brace for electoral upsets
  • Advisors abandon ship amid poll storm
  • Tinubu struggles to rebalance the budget
  • Central bankers hunt for foreign exchange
  • The global south wins a big money battle
  • Tracking the missing billions
  • Loss and Damage Fund is centre-stage at the UN COP28 Climate Summit
  • Debt deal teeters on the brink of collapse
  • Ruto eyes privatisation to balance the books
  • Floods put fighting on hold
  • South-west bias claims weaken Tinubu's standing
  • Much ado about Kidal
  • Will Tidjane Thiam's 'grand retour' succeed?
  • African and Caribbean states join forces in campaign for transatlantic slavery reparations
  • Opposition Democratic Alliance steps up international lobbying
  • After narrow victory, Boakai set to review resource contracts
  • Political fight intensifies over state transit company
  • Putting a LID on cocoa
  • Pay more to be Kenyan
  • IMF devaluation demand shock
  • Green hydrogen shoots
  • ZANU-PF's impostor plot
  • Godongwana's realism unsettles ANC
  • Tinubu tightens grip, opposition regroups
  • Trading dams for ports
  • Abiy spells out expansionist plans
  • Darfuris face a global dereliction of duty
  • Wagner pays cash for digital influence
  • Riyadh re-launches its Africa courtship
  • Finance needed before UN police mission, say ministers
  • Low turnout at governor elections
  • Weah-Boakai election race tests 20-year peace settlement
  • Presidents Mahamat Kaka and Macron meet on security threats
  • Escalating the war in Darfur as they negotiate in Jeddah
  • Vice-President Bawumia wins ruling party presidential ticket
  • Mind the adaptation gap
  • Despite the sceptics, Washington prolongs the AGOA trade deal
  • Into the arms of Abdel Fattah el Sisi
  • Amid regional chaos, a glimmer of hope in Jeddah and Addis
  • Murky waters around Tobruk
  • Xinfeng lithium licence threat
  • Recount cancels Frelimo win
  • UK cops in court
  • Debt and geopolitics slow Africa's growth
  • Touadéra stirs the geopolitical cauldron
  • Biya circles the wagons
  • The end of Tinubu's beginning
  • Hedge fund-backed firm loses bet against Abuja
  • Scholz dashes for gas
  • Polling hints at opposition breakthrough
  • King Charles to be confronted with demands for restitution
  • Fight over control of loss and damage fund dominates pre-summit talks
  • Kagame tests his security playbook to the limit
  • Brussels fast-tracks migration deal with Cairo amid Gaza migration fears
  • Frelimo faces electoral defeat in Maputo after court orders recount in local elections
  • Abuja gets $11bn claim on gas deal overturned in London's High Court
  • Ruto's plan to profit from the ports hits problems
  • China, Europe and the US mull tariff war amid scramble for Africa's green minerals
  • Chasing the greenback
  • Commission divided over Cairo
  • Nigeria leads attack on tax
  • Travel bans and training
  • Demands grow for reforms
  • Weah and Boakai brace for second round
  • Governor in the firing line
  • Mnangagwa presses on regardless
  • Stolen election claims trigger protests
  • Politics in a time of war
  • Edging towards the abyss
  • Eskom chaos is at the heart of the growth crisis
  • Junta is latest to sign Russian nuclear pact
  • Saïed chooses isolation after returning EU cash
  • Boost for opposition alliance as Weah faces run-off
  • Back to the military drawing board
  • Radical climate finance strategies go mainstream
  • Ruto's reshuffle rewards the technocrats
  • Erratic Saïed jeopardises cash for migrants deal with Brussels
  • Clashes mar run-up to national elections
  • Developing states call for cheaper capital and debt pause
  • General Nguema consolidates his palace coup
  • The north challenges Goïta on two fronts
  • Fishrot trial delay
  • Keeping aid in the family
  • Putsch or purge?
  • Net widens in oil trial
  • Was there a plot against the police chief?
  • Secret deal won't end the tuna bond saga
  • Power cuts dash optimism on revenues
  • Cash crunch triggers ANC policy fight
  • Unending war deepens chaos
  • Security threats multiply ahead of polls
  • Oppositionists vie for the presidency
  • Ambazonia's campaign gets a new Scribe
  • US senator moves to block military aid to Egypt over rights abuses
  • Fayulu confirms candidacy for presidential polls
  • Antwerp gems deal on the rocks
  • Concerns mount over carbon credit deals
  • Western governments send mixed signals on aid and trade
  • Two hands on the levers of power
  • After UN speech, army leader Burhan hints at peace talks
  • President Ruto agrees to host Ukraine 'grain hub'
  • Macron loses showdown with the Niamey junta
  • At last, the $8.5bn energy transition plan is ready
  • Heart of the migration storm
  • Seck seeks DC clout
  • Sall's 'safe choice' hits turbulence
  • Bribes case on the rocks
  • Long goodbye points to broken system
  • Muse Bihi's political headaches worsen
  • Kremlin ponders its post-Wagner options
  • Foreigners swoop on Derna as politicians wash their hands
  • Mnangagwa keeps it in the family
  • Bawumia leads race for NPP ticket
  • Cross-party talks open, carrots provided
  • Cash crunch tests Tinubu's top finance team
  • Political movement warns of civil war
  • Macron digs in amid diplomatic 'hostage' claims
  • Ruto sets sights on port privatisation scheme
  • Caught cold by the coups
  • Despite everything, the ANC charts a path to victory
  • Violence in the east is escalating and threatening the elections
  • Arrest of oppositionist points to political fight over security services
  • Red Cross reports 10,000 missing after devastating storms and floods hit eastern region
  • Worst earthquake for 120 years could unleash economic and political tremors 
  • How militias police the Mediterranean for Europe
  • After Tinubu opened Pandora's Box
  • Who will fund the new fund?
  • Toxic times for uranium
  • The withdrawal starts
  • Maputo may settle loans case
  • Legitimacy questions may spur talks
  • Nairobi vies for green capital status
  • Museveni's divide-and-rule master-class
  • Kagame shakes up the army – just in case
  • An iron grip may be slipping
  • Will Biya be next?
  • African Union court demands legal access for political detainees
  • Dubai faces legal hurdles with port plan
  • Post-elections sanctions mark setback to US ties
  • As Bamako pushes out the UN, Islamists seize new opportunities
  • General Nguema plans the transition and his political ascendancy
  • President Bio taps Trump ally as security worries grow
  • Setting out Africa's case ahead of the UN's COP28 summit
  • Macron steps up the rhetoric against the Niamey junta
  • Bongo dynasty overthrown after widespread claims of electoral fraud
  • Beijing asserts global south leadership role
  • Torture claims hit Trovoada
  • Saïed's new crank
  • Courting Diezani
  • Abiy looks west
  • Nairobi takes lead on economic accords
  • Pushback tests Tinubu's tilt to the market
  • General Tiani opens the bidding
  • Electoral flaws may stall re-engagement campaign
  • The avalanche catches up with Abiy Ahmed
  • Ruto backtracks on fuel price rise
  • Samia's response to Emirati port deal critics prompts backlash
  • Somalia will become eighth member of the regional bloc this year
  • Opposition candidate faces battle against time and electoral commission
  • Nairobi inquiry on British army conduct reopens old wounds
  • Government stonewalling on corruption comes under fire
  • President Faure secretly helps the Niamey junta
  • Macky Sall cherry-picks his party's opponents
  • Leaders mull ways to rein in the global credit agencies
  • Ruling party and proxies step up violence in run-up to national elections
  • Niamey's junta thumbs its nose
  • The coup d'état as get-out-of-jail card
  • Tinubu orders forensic audit of central bank and civil service payroll
  • President Sall plays opposition roulette
  • Maritime boundary clash threatens bilateral relations at critical time
  • Bang to rights
  • You can run and you can hide
  • Kenyan cops vs Haitian gangs
  • Cost of a coup
  • De Beers deal could save BDP's skin
  • Masisi needs diamonds for trumps
  • Finance chief Ncube bets on resolving debt impasse
  • How to spin an economic catastrophe
  • Amid protests over spiralling prices, Tinubu names new team
  • A coup foretold but not averted
  • Abiy ploughs on as economy staggers
  • President launches anti-graft campaign
  • Kremlin promises grain supplies ahead of St Petersburg summit
  • Future of ACP in doubt after signing of much delayed trade deal
  • Is Mnangagwa willing to risk free elections as trade-off to end financial curbs?
  • Pour encourager les autres?
  • Brewing up a legal storm
  • Brussels stays on the hook
  • Bio wanted more brio
  • Hemeti's grand plan is stalemated
  • The street takes on State House
  • ZANU-PF takes a cut of the green economy
  • Chamisa wrestles with the crocodile, again
  • ICC to probe war crimes as conflict rages on
  • Abiy and Sisi agree to restart Nile dam talks
  • New ministers may be named today as reforms bite and discontent mounts
  • Saïed wins €1 billion windfall in EU migration deal 
  • Not much power to the people
  • Naira politics rules – but the pace picks up
  • Nairobi trade deal prompts concern about the regional bloc
  • Court blocks housing levy as new taxes bite
  • Cacophony of peace missions take off in Addis Ababa
  • Totally unmoved
  • Cave-in hits bitcoin miners
  • No last stand
  • Both sides claim diamond deal win
  • All quiet on the Wagner front
  • Did Moscow hotline end the UN mission?
  • ANC leaders wade into new ethics row
  • A man for all summits
  • Reliving Darfur's tragic history 20 years on
  • Hichilema hails 'mission impossible' deal
  • Macron makes a U-turn on autocracy
  • Public Protector clears Ramaphosa over farm cash
  • Election observers cry foul as Maada Bio starts second term
  • Prime Minister Abiy knocks on the BRICS door
  • Migration cash dominates vote for top EU jobs
  • An imperial palace in the Yeka hills
  • Maputo's ex-finance chief to face New York trial in hidden loan scandal
  • Dutch court rules that Isabel dos Santos illegally diverted €52 million from state oil company
  • Rich economies side-step African calls for global tax treaty
  • Prigozhin tests Putin with an African putsch
  • Swapo faces more poll losses
  • Hague court probes M23 fighters
  • Political divide deepens
  • G20 slows reform ideas
  • Brussels deal rescues Saïed
  • Windhoek gets tough on green resources
  • The new age of austerity
  • Tinubu's team looks for shock absorbers
  • Security row overshadows diplomatic outreach
  • Junta tightens its grip as it organises referendum
  • Mnangagwa returns to (his) gold standard
  • As economic polycrisis deepens, business lends a hand
  • Kyiv and Moscow give peace mission short shrift
  • Supreme Court outlaws presidential decisions
  • Hassan Sheikh promises direct elections
  • Tshisekedi gives away gold rights to UAE
  • Can Tigray's factions hold together?
  • Brussels rescues Kaïs Saïed with cash for migration control deal
  • President Ruto joins drive for African Union reform
  • Bonds strengthen and sharp devaluation looms after Tinubu suspends central bank governor
  • How Brussels's green tax will hit Africa
  • Hassan Sheikh's offensive against Al Shabaab is  faltering
  • Tshisekedi returns empty-handed
  • Touadéra tilts to Moscow again
  • No compromise on royal power
  • Street hits back for Sonko
  • Grain-fed diplomacy
  • Forgotten but not gone
  • Arms in the night
  • When – not if – Emefiele leaves the bank
  • Tinubu tries shock therapy on sluggish economy
  • Saïed plans to tax the rich to keep the IMF away
  • Ruto's housing levy is triggering mass dissent
  • Civilians demand a key role as US-Saudi mediation falters
  • Ending fuel subsidies, Tinubu takes on traders and the unions
  • Mutharika manoeuvres for a comeback
  • Football before politics
  • Hassan Sheikh moves closer to winning debt relief
  • Manuel Chang hears the extradition bell
  • New President Tinubu ends fuel subsidy and lambasts central bank in inaugural speech
  • Shell holds up clean-up payments in graft row
  • Jobs for the spouses
  • Succès on K-Street
  • Bayelsa commission reports
  • Frelimo rolls out the vote
  • Mnangagwa's corruption double talk
  • Sonko's trial is Sall's challenge
  • Tinubu struggles to control the Assembly
  • A ceasefire with monitors this time
  • Deeper reforms needed after the bailout
  • The IMF offers some breathing space
  • The ruling party could benefit from its IMF U-turn
  • Cairo's gas export boom hits obstacles
  • President Buhari opens Africa's biggest industrial project
  • Uhuru hangs on to his Jubilee
  • Power politics could derail vital grain deal for Africa
  • Team Abiy inches forward in Oromo talks
  • Back from the cold, Kamau Thugge chosen for Bank governor
  • Mahama wins NDC presidential ticket by landslide
  • Ruto's budget hits his hustler supporters
  • Oil boom poses governance risks
  • Cult and politics
  • Colonial spotlight
  • Will you be my strategic partner?
  • Nyusi runs out of road
  • Rich countries boost aid – to themselves
  • ZANU-PF fires its electoral blunderbuss
  • No brave new Bretton Woods in sight
  • A war that hits everyone all at once
  • What does Raila Odinga want?
  • The future of the pipeline depends on Beijing
  • Chancellor Scholz seeks cooperation with Africa on tech and green energy
  • The political class makes up with itself
  • Minister sacks oil clean-up boss as graft fears grow
  • Money and politics delay the latest headcount plan
  • Western companies belatedly join critical minerals race
  • London courts to rule again on legality of London-Kigali asylum plan
  • Presidents face growing pressure on draconian anti-gay laws
  • President-elect Tinubu faces lengthening roster of questions on corruption and fuel subsidy
  • Changing of the diplomatic guard
  • Seck enters a crowded field
  • The price of peace
  • Questions for Pyongyang
  • Writing the next act
  • Africa still has a Ukraine problem
  • Ruto's credit slumps amid cash flow crisis
  • Junta leader banks on autocracy
  • A battle for regional control
  • Regional states hold back, for now
  • How the generals blew up the transition
  • What is behind Masisi's gem deal?
  • Saïed steps up attacks on the opposition
  • National rivalries and policy clashes complicate peace-making efforts
  • Mediators proliferate as fighting intensifies and more flee Khartoum
  • Abiy disarms regional forces and riles his old backers
  • Careless talk about 'ruthless' Ruto
  • Gertler's end
  • Dialling for dollars
  • After the gold rush
  • The great aid exodus
  • Risks of Las Anod lull
  • The art of a deal
  • Missed deadlines are part of the plan
  • Abiy tries to exploit Orthodox schism
  • The Opposition hides its teeth
  • Banks count the cost of debt restructuring
  • After delays, new hope for a debt deal
  • Doubts greet the DA's 'moonshot' coalition
  • Asiwaju Tinubu the taxman cometh
  • Muhoozi sticks his neck out
  • Ould Abdel Aziz's trial for grand corruption sets precedent 
  • President Saïed picks a fight with the Fund
  • Prime minister Abiy presses ahead with national takeover of regional forces – despite mass protests
  • Beny Steinmetz loses appeal in epic Simandou corruption case
  • Odinga steps up demands on election reform after Ruto blinks
  • Vice-President Harris salutes a 'democracy champion'
  • Sonko stays out of jail, his supporters are off the streets
  • Rival debt plans hold up new finance
  • A commission under fire
  • At the other end of geopolitics
  • Coastguard in the dock
  • Beijing pushes back on debt
  • Now it’s Ramaphosa central
  • Sonko and the street take battle to Sall
  • Rot at savings fund exposed
  • Seeking a way out of Kremlin's embrace
  • Ruto gets the freight train blues
  • Tinubu faces legitimacy challenge
  • Kigali frees 'Hotel Rwanda' hero to assuage Washington
  • Finance minister Ofori-Atta talks up progress on China debt
  • President Tshisekedi lines up his campaign team
  • Mogadishu weighs the ups and downs of its anti-jihadist fight
  • El Sisi's grip weakens as economic pressures mount
  • Saïed's racial crackdown deepens economic woes
  • After meeting with Kagame, Braverman ploughs on with cash for asylum-seekers scheme
  • Blinken's 'war crimes' determination following his meeting with Abiy
  • Raila takes to the streets
  • President Ruto widens the tent
  • President Masisi presses De Beers for bigger cut of diamond cash
  • Kagame's bargaining chip
  • Doubling down on anti-gay bill
  • Khaki vigilantes
  • Disclosure costs Maputo
  • Uneasy peace at Las Anod
  • Magufuli's mega-projects live on
  • The one-party state bounces back
  • How money talks in national elections
  • Vote-getters and loyalists predominate
  • State elections will reinforce three-party vote split
  • US nominee to run World Bank wins more backing after Africa tour
  • Junta holds up return to civil rule and breaks its deal with the Ecowas regional bloc
  • Europe cools on West to North Africa gas pipeline as delays mount
  • Fights over debt and public spending are shaping the election campaign
  • Samia builds her base and sets down markers
  • Brussels backs Italy's hard line on migration
  • How El Sisi lost the cold war over water
  • Pesticides row adds to toxic relations
  • Row over China Square discount store after traders' protest presages diplomatic ructions
  • Courts tested in political arena as tension builds before next round of voting
  • Energy drives Italy's turn to Libya
  • Las Anod still under fire
  • Macron's relaunch
  • A vendetta that went wrong
  • Court tells HYPREP to come clean
  • Weah stays in pole position
  • Capital crisis in the continent
  • Elite sets itself for lithium boom
  • ANC cabinet contenders step up lobbying
  • Tinubu's last trick: from godfather to Kabiyesi
  • Energy plan riles ANC factions and vested interests
  • Voluntary exit or dismissal for Odinga?
  • AU calls President Saïed's complaints about African migrations 'racialised hate speech'
  • Tinubu edges to Presidential win as opposition and activists dispute the results
  • A junta that's going nowhere
  • A high turnout will shake up national politics
  • President Macron administers last rites to the post-Cotonou treaty
  • Probe uncovers how two main parties use hacking and disinformation
  • David Malpass quits bank as radical changes loom
  • Border troubles threaten the region
  • Financing crises and security clashes dominate summit
  • Electoral commission row raises fresh doubts about poll
  • Fortress Europe
  • Court deals poll blow to Khama
  • Addis crash report under fire
  • Flying on empty
  • A bridge 100 metres too far
  • Restive Tuareg ramp up tension
  • Kaka falls back on authoritarianism
  • Hargeisa's bloody own goal
  • How the Wellega war threatens Abiy
  • Shell takes hard line on oil-spill case
  • The naira republic's banknote crisis hurts (almost) everyone
  • Berlin tries to broker cash for migrants deals
  • Ruto's securocrats hark back to the Moi era
  • Summit takes off in Addis amid growing race for the region's resources and votes in the UN
  • Opposition parties reject Ramaphosa's 'State of Disaster' scheme
  • Qatargate fuels Rabat's schism with Euro MPs
  • Anti-corruption furore goes global
  • Ramaphosa shuffles the reshuffle
  • Mashatile set to be the heir presumptive
  • Super-charged partisanship in Congress could swing Africa policy
  • Draft pandemic treaty could force Big Pharma to share vaccines with developing countries
  • Cuts in aid and trade on table as European leaders mull tougher action on migration
  • Journalist death prompts criticism
  • Resurrecting the 'Russosphere'
  • Mswati digs in and defies SADC
  • Low turn-out saps Saïed
  • West Africa’s juntas look east
  • Clashes damage recognition campaign
  • Can Ramaphosa get the lights back on?
  • Economic woes test voter loyalties
  • Electoral Commission goes on trial again
  • Tundu Lissu's return prompts first opposition rallies for seven years
  • Governance survey argues that slow trade reform and 'democratic backsliding' are hampering progress
  • Bank governor Emefiele stays at centre of election politics – despite dropping his presidential bid
  • Speaker accused of undermining parliament
  • MPs expose airline fiasco
  • Welcoming Russia's Lavrov, President Issayas boosts his regional role
  • President Putin's Africa summit in July will be key diplomatic test
  • Back into the Fund's embrace
  • Qatargate probe turns the heat on Rabat
  • Museveni changes horses on mega rail project
  • East-West blame game on debt heats up
  • Clipping the President's talons
  • The succession race starts
  • Obi rules at Chatham House
  • Dos Santos ups the PR war
  • Could a cold war turn hot?
  • Lourenço faces a tough rebuild
  • History won't repeat itself
  • Hichilema faces critical delivery test
  • How a truce in the trade wars boosts business
  • Washington's K-Street lobbyists take on Hargeisa
  • Beijing turns table on debt trap diplomacy claims
  • Insurgency drags on but the giant gas projects will restart
  • Government by chequebook
  • Finance and energy access come first
  • The colonels and captains settle in
  • Grand ambitions, little money
  • More European diplomatic dominoes fall as French ambassador is expelled from Ouagadogou
  • President Suluhu Hassan takes another step on political rights
  • How the opposition is trying to pick up the pieces
  • Sall manoeuvres for a high-risk third term
  • Moscow's goals are global not local
  • Economy deprives regime of options
  • The usual ZANU-PF poll win looms
  • Horse-trading risks poll delay
  • The return of one-man rule
  • Devaluation heads a list of tough changes
  • Financial meltdown weakens NPP
  • Election noise louder but signals weaker
  • ANC faces the ultimate 'power outage'
  • How the polycrisis will play out
  • Trouble ahead for Hassan Sheikh's united front
  • A fragile truce with many foes
  • Ructions over debt deal hold up IMF bailout
  • President Ruto makes his pitch for Delta Airways
  • Voters stay away en masse in challenge to Saïed
  • Ramaphosa's win in ANC elections opens a door to policy shifts and reshuffles
  • Bang go the reforms
  • Zuma subsidy for CAR ends
  • Geingob's party opponents gain
  • Push on pushbacks
  • Tentative steps towards peace
  • President's fate rests with party
  • Lithium scramble offers temptation
  • Hustler fund lacks sparkle
  • Apathy to greet polling day
  • Grim outlook for the new president
  • It takes more than new banknotes…
  • Museveni seeks seventh heaven
  • Can Macron's new Sahel strategy work?
  • Oppositionists prise open parliamentary politics
  • Ruto hits back at dissident electoral commissioners
  • Trade union chief poses new threat to Saïed
  • ANC Executive mulls Ramaphosa's fate ahead of parliamentary vote
  • Geopolitical fault lines
  • Netumbo wins the prize
  • A coup and a cover-up
  • Rebel returns home
  • HYPREP twists UNEP's arm
  • Contractors who clean up
  • Scrambling for a Pax Swahili
  • Tough transitions follow the ructions
  • A December surprise threatens Ramaphosa's second term
  • Bobi Wine rights campaign sparks more protests
  • African nations win latest round on UN tax reform body
  • Ruto and Museveni go east
  • President Biden hosts African leaders amid multiple crises
  • The great investment chase gathers pace
  • Geingob's successor to inherit a divided SWAPO
  • Chakwera's travels and travails
  • Kenya plays lead role in Congo intervention
  • Moscow mounts a military show in the desert
  • Courts press pause on President Ruto's administration
  • Conference countdown sharpens ANC contest
  • Closing down the opposition
  • Finance in question
  • Loans before haircuts
  • Lobbyist brings down climate fund
  • Cyril in Empireland
  • Spend, spend, spend
  • Showcase fails to quell rights concerns
  • Delegates haggle in Egypt as the planet burns
  • Mnangagwa to lead ZANU-PF onslaught against opposition
  • Cutting public spending and reforming state companies, Ruto keeps $2.34bn IMF deal on track
  • Treasury team in disarray as finance minister faces probe and his deputy is sacked
  • Al Shabaab lashes out after heavy losses
  • Ruto and Odinga loyalists battle over election body
  • Economic crises and Palestine dominate Algiers' hosting of Arab League summit
  • Kampala gets Brussels to U-turn on oil pipeline ban
  • Hosting climate summit El Sisi seeks diplomatic spotlight and financing boost
  • Big Tech's ethical mining rules thrown into chaos
  • Climate of scepticism
  • Judiciary in the dock
  • Conflicted over conflict
  • Dash to oil depends on China
  • Economic woes hit Akufo-Addo on all sides
  • A different kind of cronyism
  • Prosecutor Batohi swings into action
  • Ramaphosa names his party allies
  • Onshore war versus offshore gains
  • Addis Ababa and Tigray sign an uneasy truce
  • Massacre threatens transition plan
  • Europe's war prompt new warnings of economic headwinds
  • Ukraine costs hit Whitehall aid budget
  • Questions abound over state oil company's bidding round for seven deep water blocks
  • Chang's extradition to the US looms
  • Bamako's wolf warrior diplomacy backfires
  • President Hassan edges towards political reform and big gas
  • Local processing row holds up rare earth mine
  • Federal and Tigrayan leaders open talks in South Africa
  • Presidential candidates launch uncosted manifestos to boost economy
  • Unions and oppositionists warn of a social explosion
  • Settlement hits another bump
  • A dozen in the dock
  • New King Coal
  • The middle class heads north
  • Populist Matekane promises reforms
  • The hustler backs austerity
  • Governments pushed close to the edge
  • Banking on the Fund
  • Nyusi schemes to stay on
  • Transport dispute puts brake on economy
  • Grand corruption wrecks Niger delta clean-up
  • Salva's improbable Washington lobbyist
  • African Union offers hope for oppositionists seeking diplomatic support
  • Freedom for Ruto allies as prosecutors drop corruption cases
  • Mounting calls for global debt plan as payments crunch looms
  • Clans take the fight to Al Shabaab
  • How Muhoozi threatens his father's grip on power
  • Truss and Ramaphosa try a crisis reset
  • Constitution's narrow escape
  • Trovoada returns after poll win
  • Cops to lose rights
  • Frank Timis, eco-warrior
  • ZANU-PF beats its economic chest
  • Zuma humiliated on his home turf
  • Whitehall talks up its business aims
  • Penalise the plunder, say protestors
  • An election umpire besieged on all sides
  • Palace coup could usher in Moscow's mercenaries
  • End dissent in cabinet, ministers told
  • Under fire, Bank chief pushes back on his climate record
  • Interest rate pressures mount across region
  • Loyalty trumps all in Ruto's cabinet
  • Geopolitical divides take centre stage at the UN
  • Questions swirl over death of lawyer charged with witness-tampering in Ruto case
  • President Saïed's election plan faces mass boycott challenge
  • African leaders warn on climate talks failure at UN General Assembly
  • Kenyatta era debts haunt Ruto's growth plan
  • New coalition aims to supplant the ANC
  • Mswati sidesteps reform
  • Three bid to succeed Geingob
  • Fears of pain in prospect
  • Junta holds Ivorians 'hostage'
  • Steinmetz plays his get out of jail card
  • Dismay as court strikes down reform laws
  • Why Dlamini-Zuma is running again
  • Weakened president in troubled waters
  • Ruto plays the economy blame-game
  • Junta's double-talk on transition
  • Advancing towards stalemate
  • Addis and Tigray return to the battlefields
  • Washington makes symbolic cuts to Cairo's military aid
  • A league of quarrelling neighbours
  • Developing economies step up pressure on food crisis climate finance
  • Ruto starts political fights as he shifts subsidies
  • UNITA plans protests but drops boycott
  • The Kremlin's grip tightens
  • Kampala pays war reparations to Kinshasa
  • President avoids a power struggle, for now
  • Ahead of his inauguration, Ruto sews up parliament
  • Calls for a reset get louder with the death of the Queen
  • Debt deal boosts kwacha
  • Steinmetz heads for the endgame
  • The Axis fights back
  • Brussels greets Ruto
  • Anti-jihad forces try to do without Mali
  • ANC hopefuls race for the top
  • Lourenço's bruising victory
  • What will Truss mean for Africa?
  • Kenyatta's securocrats cast into the cold
  • The judges endorse Ruto's rout
  • Why security bungled response to hotel massacre
  • Osinbajo pushes green debt forgiveness plan
  • Slow progress on the diplomatic de-icing
  • Following in Odinga's footsteps
  • Bashagha bloodied in Tripoli battle
  • Pricing Ruto's promises
  • Win for Hain's Bain campaign
  • Rabat turns fertiliser diplomacy to its advantage
  • Tokyo promises $30bn to Africa a week after Beijing's debt relief offer
  • Dos Santos funeral fails to quieten claims of voter fraud 
  • Opposition fall-out shakes up election plans
  • Downing a ceasefire
  • Macron's multi-purpose stopover
  • Beijing turns around on debt
  • Gulf states vie for position in region
  • Economic woes challenge election winner
  • MPLA on uncertain ground
  • A tale of two elections
  • Ruto takes his revenge
  • Washington weighs in on Weah
  • Politicians and activists take the election to court
  • How the hustlers toppled the dynasties
  • Election chief proclaims Ruto victory but most of his commissioners dispute it
  • Rabat and Algiers cross swords over UN role
  • African governments count the cost of a new Cold War
  • George Weah signs up more Washington spin doctors
  • Fight over Africa’s fossil fuels intensifies
  • Attacks shatter Abuja’s complacency
  • BBY suffers poll backlash
  • MPs with fewer benefits
  • Nyusi kicks to the long grass
  • Egypt adds to Minusma's misery
  • Some light at last
  • The ANC is at its weakest since 1994
  • Once silenced, twice shy
  • Monumental disputes
  • Questions about the electoral referee
  • Taking the fifth
  • Zuma allies wound Ramaphosa at KwaZulu-Natal conference
  • Tight presidential race shaped by tropes rather than realities
  • Pressure mounts on central bank as Naira tumbles again
  • Food crisis deepens as world looks to Ukraine
  • Hassan Sheikh seeks new foreign allies
  • Economic cooperation falters as growth set to fall again
  • Veteran Israeli lobbyist helps Damiba's junta
  • Washington in summit race with Moscow
  • Dubaiba woos UAE and Haftar with about-turn on oil
  • As foes encircle him, Ramaphosa tells critics he has a jobs and growth plan
  • President Macron and Foreign Minister Lavrov vie for influence in pan-African tours this week
  • When the political descends to the personal
  • Parties divided on sharing power
  • Heat of war shifts to the centre
  • Goïta plays to his nationalist gallery
  • Dos Santos haunts Lourenço's campaign
  • Fund shores up internationalism
  • Washington raises its trade offer
  • Beijing recalibrates its contracts
  • Peter Obi shakes up the political class
  • Ofori-Atta's team plans more cuts
  • Akufo-Addo faces the costs of an IMF deal
  • Compaoré's return baffles nation
  • Opposition steps up campaign against Saïed's constitution
  • UN urges African economies to prioritise trade diversification efforts and fintech investment
  • Sofa cash saga levels the ethical scores
  • Drought and fall-out from Moscow's war may trigger catastrophic famine
  • Rows over contractors and pollsters sound alarms ahead of August vote
  • Presidential race tightens after flagbearers pick running mates
  • A reluctant reversion to the IMF
  • Rivals differ over talks location
  • Death at the border
  • ENRC tests Serious Fraud Office
  • Mali rejects human rights mandate
  • Zondo's game changer
  • Saïed ratchets up the autocracy
  • New coalitions, old faces chase counties
  • Atiku and Tinubu clash on the economy
  • Burhan counters anti-corruption drive
  • Military running out of options
  • Tshisekedi calls out Kagame on the M23 militia
  • Opposition leader Steenhuisen seeks coalition deal
  • The ANC is losing out to populists and radicals in Gauteng
  • Scotland wins leadership battle despite Whitehall opposition
  • Western leaders focus on Ukraine but offer little aid for war's economic damage
  • Al Shabaab wins on TV but loses in the field
  • Gaps in Glencore's guilty plea
  • Raila's old clothes
  • Poll ban fans the flames
  • Chakwera sacks and attacks
  • Spiralling prices dominate budgets
  • Plans for urban forest raise hackles
  • Bamako refuses to look to France
  • Plan mooted to settle east-west split
  • How manganese pipeline helps the ANC
  • KwaZulu-Natal braces for a showdown
  • Tinubu summons the ghosts of Abacha's kleptocracy
  • Zelensky gets on the line to Addis
  • Political intrigue and economic recession haunt Kigali summit
  • 'Farmgate' rocks Ramaphosa
  • The man behind the sofa story
  • Madrid embroiled in zero-sum fight with Rabat and Algiers
  • Key Putin ally Prigozhin loses appeal on Wagner mercenary sanctions
  • Dire warnings on energy crunch raise questions on green investment
  • Civilians stand firm as crisis talks falter
  • Moscow's missing tankers
  • Bigger promises, smaller budgets
  • Name or blame
  • I spy a third term
  • Mali deals hammer blow to G5 Sahel
  • Why UNITA could cause an upset in August
  • Sall cuts deal on food crisis
  • Abiy risks Amhara backlash
  • Government to ram through gold scheme
  • Zuma's securocrats rattle Ramaphosa
  • Net closes around the Guptas
  • Now the numbers favour Raila Odinga
  • Rival parties set up a battle of the oligarchs
  • Hassan Sheikh takes Mogadishu by storm
  • Top French minister drawn into bribery row
  • Strict limits on bank reforms as war economy constrains government
  • Fayemi and Osinbajo emerge as frontrunners for APC ticket as Tinubu stumbles
  • Deepening food and fuel crisis prompts emergency summits
  • Delegates agree rules for the next pandemic
  • Elections, Russia's wars and rocketing food prices drive up rates
  • Contenders in last-minute negotiations for presidential nominations as deadline extended
  • Bribery accusations engulf government
  • Turmoil at the top deepens
  • Deadline dramas
  • A running mate scorned
  • Sensitive dossiers
  • Who will buy?
  • Honeymoon over as junta extends rule
  • Leaders favour new CFA franc plan
  • Diplomacy on ice
  • Abiy’s war aims meet geopolitics
  • Abiy juggles the truce with force
  • President enlists crypto for survival strategy
  • Berlin seeks energy and security accords in Africa
  • Campaigners disrupt East African pipeline plan
  • Oppositionists demand action on Zondo and edge towards coalition
  • Macky Sall faces the third-term curse
  • Lifting media curbs points to President's growing confidence
  • Whitehall focuses on business and aid for trade as it cuts budgets
  • Kenya and US welcome Hassan Sheikh's presidential comeback
  • Euro MPs back action on cocoa prices
  • Martha Karua and Rigathi Gachagua make the cut as running mates
  • President Buhari's edict shakes up presidential race
  • Hichilema's team steps on the gas
  • Conglomerates race for cobalt
  • Ncube tries a deal as dollar dives
  • Mind the gap
  • Bamako's junta forces hard choices
  • Alarms sound on debt, inflation and food
  • Zondo hands ANC a time-bomb
  • Kenya sponsors risky anti-militia plan
  • Farmajo faces the ultimate test
  • Unloved Hemeti under pressure
  • Burhan lets the Islamists back in
  • The UN reports that food and energy crises are deepening due to Russia's war on Ukraine
  • Opposition leader recruits Britain's Cherie Blair to clear his name
  • Mnangagwa bans banks from lending as the Zim dollar implodes
  • Ouattara keeps options open for his successor
  • President Kenyatta bids to expel Deputy Ruto from government
  • European states seeking Africa's gas hit geopolitical and production problems
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  • Consensus candidate plan upsets the frontrunners
  • All in the family
  • Muhoozi's coming out party
  • Gunning for Khama
  • Fake passports unseat advisor
  • Rivals struggle to balance their tickets
  • Insurgents take on the state on all fronts
  • An Oromo rebellion constrains Abiy
  • Navigating through the fog of cold war
  • War offers Ramaphosa more options
  • Hichilema accused of 'losing focus’
  • Alarm grows over vote-rigging plans
  • King coal makes its grand return
  • President Ramaphosa shifts back to market economics despite heavy political risks
  • The political class salutes Mwai Kibaki, the last of the independence generation
  • Oil spills and theft spike as big oil goes offshore
  • Washington and Brussels edge back on Western Sahara
  • Russia opens diplomatic front against the West for global food crisis
  • Experts and activists demand more generous vaccine waivers
  • Financial institutions prepare over $500bn of funding as IMF warns of 'crisis on top of a crisis'
  • Refugee deal faces delays as legal and political challenges grow
  • The junta's revolving door – Kaboré released and Compaoré convicted
  • Zelensky wants African audience
  • Disjointed force
  • United by dissolution
  • Donors pick sides in stand-off
  • Looking for funds as war disrupts trade
  • Battling over the legacy
  • Nyusi tries to shake off the mud
  • Ramaphosa heading for second term
  • State relaxes grip on national freight
  • How the Central Bank could win next year's election
  • Washington eyes a base at Berbera
  • As economy stalls, Abiy plans to open banking sector
  • Deporting dissidents boosts Generals Muhoozi and Kagame
  • Europe looks to African energy as sanctions on Russia deepen
  • Vice-President Osinbajo's bid challenges APC leader Tinubu and bank governor Emefiele
  • Macronisme on trial – at home and abroad
  • Prime Minister Majoro to change political rules after winning confidence vote
  • As Russia faces sanctions, Gaborone bids to become global diamond hub
  • Coal and oil producers want more flexibility on climate targets as energy crisis deepens
  • President Saïed dissolves parliament and accuses MPs of treason but Brussels keeps the cash flowing
  • Supreme Court finally throws out Building Bridges plan
  • Moscow loses arms advantage
  • Rabat strengthens Sahara grip
  • Al Qaida bomb compensation
  • Goïta's junta cracks down mercilessly
  • Top-level collusion suspected in atrocity
  • Back to the IMF…again
  • Continental ties tested in a zero-sum game
  • Economic swings and roundabouts
  • Sanctioned mogul adds steel to portfolio
  • The Change campaign changes hands
  • Dubaiba and Bashagha preside over a new east-west partition
  • Trade curbs and price spikes deepen food crisis
  • Beijing plans pioneering peace conference in the Horn of Africa
  • Chamisa's Citizens' Coalition for Change wins 19 out of 28 seats in grand by-election battle
  • Ahead of key convention, Buhari's allies reassert control of the ruling party
  • Sectarian killings surge as French troops leave
  • Dropping the Polisario Front, Madrid backs Rabat
  • Washington toughens stance on aid amid galloping fuel and food prices
  • Vaccine patent negotiators agree compromise formula
  • Exiles return and investors take a look a year after Magufuli's death
  • Pressure mounts for speedier anti-corruption moves after Zondo takes over as Chief Justice
  • Ramaphosa weighs the cost of Moscow's war
  • Not by bread alone
  • A bigger piece of the potash
  • Unmanned by drones
  • Rivals set out their minimum conditions
  • Barrick in the dock
  • Grand diplomacy on tour
  • Chief Justice Zondo takes centre stage
  • Tshisekedi helps Gertler in fight with US
  • The junta runs out of bread and road
  • Danger looms for the UN in Mali
  • Weah slaloms through the opposition
  • Rabat's lobbying of Washington on Western Sahara has paid off
  • President Buhari calls ruling party to order over chairmanship fight
  • Brussels eyes African energy as it bars Moscow
  • Pragmatism rules as African states navigate Cold War II
  • UN clashes with Wagner worsen
  • Freeing of opposition leader Mbowe reopens political arena
  • Prime ministerial fight takes country back to the brink
  • Ukraine war triggers oil and political shocks
  • President Tshisekedi cuts a deal with Dan Gertler
  • Son, like Father
  • Ruto goes West
  • The big release
  • In debt to my colleague
  • Formidable first lady flexes her muscles
  • Schisms in the junta are widening
  • Moscow invasion strains bilateral ties
  • How Putin revived Moscow's reach
  • Alliances come under heavy fire
  • Terrorisme sans frontières
  • Bazoum prepares to fight on two fronts
  • Polls stall as Al Shabaab attacks surge
  • Moscow and Washington step up diplomatic fight over Ukraine war
  • Nairobi bankers want to keep their high-tech edge as government mulls more borrowing
  • Power struggle intensifies as Thabane goes on trial
  • Spymaster's arrest heralds purge
  • Prime minister Abiy tests diplomatic path
  • Warm words but too many tough decisions have been postponed
  • Calls on Finance Minister Godongwana to be more radical in this week's budget
  • Activists rally against E-Levy as government launches consultations
  • Spy powers in question
  • Nkengasong sings
  • June for Juma
  • New bankers' ramp
  • Fishing giant's dirty tricks
  • Who was behind the failed power grab?
  • The jihadists show staying power
  • Dangers of two-track campaigning
  • Ofori-Atta bets on the E-Levy, rejects IMF
  • Top police face sack amid rising crime
  • France moves out of Mali
  • Prime Minister quits as funding crisis deepens
  • Row over adulterated fuel deepens
  • Brussels tries to reset relations amid pandemic fall-out
  • Basic Income Grants move up agenda as ANC policy fights intensify
  • Senegal's AfCON win boosts Africa's coaches
  • Governments are maxing out the credit card
  • An eye on elections, President Hassan sidelines a challenger
  • Rows over money and mandates threaten peacekeeping mission
  • The coup-makers win the first round
  • Making the vote count
  • Communications breakdown
  • Chakwera tightens grip
  • Sall sags at polls
  • High noon for Fishrot perpetrators
  • New bid to revive the opposition
  • Balance of forces in ANC favours Cyril
  • Bankers circle the presidency
  • Pandemic hit to growth and trade fuels instability
  • Candidates and kingmakers break cover in succession drama
  • Brussels finds some friends in Nairobi
  • Islamist chief warns of social explosion after Kaïs Saïed's 'coup'
  • Covid, coups and climate top the summit list
  • Border reopening points to diplomatic thaw
  • The on-off elections are back on
  • EU offers new migration deal
  • La francophonie grabs the focus
  • Another domino falls to the military
  • Chakwera makes a clean sweep of his cabinet
  • President Saïed takes his new constitution campaign online
  • New Pan-African airline aims to take off in 2023
  • Musalia Mudavadi springs January surprise as he backs Deputy President Ruto
  • Fraud furore engulfs Chakwera
  • General warning for Burhan
  • Club of rivals
  • Oil-sharing deal fires up row
  • World Bank's hidden charges
  • At each other's throats
  • War dogs' old tricks
  • After concessions, rival armies fight on
  • The politics of division
  • Dismissal could herald regime shake-up
  • Lindiwe throws a designer hat in the ring
  • In search of flagbearers
  • A moment of reckoning for the gilded elite
  • Kapofi sparks outrage over genocide deal
  • Prisoners' release sparks war cries
  • Death of political kingpin Njonjo stirs political passions
  • Turning up the heat on the junta
  • Western policy under pressure as activists reject UN-backed transition talks with General Burhan's regime
  • Bamako junta gets more isolated as West African leaders cut off financial ties
  • Moscow guns for African gold
  • Living in limboland
  • Tales of adversity weigh on Nyusi
  • Bashing the book-keeper
  • Choosing Moscow
  • Reasons to be fearful
  • A praetorian transition
  • Opposition steps up disruption
  • Hustlers and handshakes
  • Military tactics dominate
  • Contenders fill the stage
  • The ANC faces a reckoning on corruption
  • Hichilema enjoys a honeymoon
  • The opposition sees a new chance
  • Après nous, le déluge?
  • No timeline for return to civil rule
  • Jihadist terror tops the agenda
  • Sisi seeks security
  • Hostage to the bad old ways
  • Not letting go
  • Rough seas for despot and demos
  • Getting jabs in arms
  • Hassan mends some fences with the opposition
  • Odinga rebounds with new coalition plan
  • Political leaders versus the polls
  • Outpouring of grief marks Archbishop Tutu's passing
  • Macron pushes the EU into Africa
  • Farmajo's dangerous trade-off
  • President Buhari vetoes electoral bill, challenging National Assembly
  • Grand partnership falters on rows over vaccine nationalism and migration
  • Headline figures mask pain at the grassroots
  • Tigrayan offer to withdraw opens door to a ceasefire as UN Security Council debates humanitarian crisis
  • South Africa pushes on vaccine patents and donates shots to the region
  • US and Brussels sanctions on Moscow's mercenaries will be tested in Africa
  • Clogged-up commission
  • Cancelling the opposition
  • Getting connected
  • Safaricom sticking around
  • Tinubu fights for his legacy
  • Costly U-turn on killings
  • Economy under the weather
  • The junta seeks immunity
  • Edging towards breakdown
  • Raila's shallow coalition
  • Adding up the real costs of the energy transition
  • Continent ramps up vaccine production as G20 countries fail to join international distribution plan
  • As authoritarians gain ground, President Biden hosts his democracy summit
  • President's situation is no joke
  • Raila Odinga launches fifth bid for the presidency
  • Elections in grave danger
  • No justice for Cashgate crooks
  • Hamdok wavers as his isolation grows
  • Buhari gambles on cash transfers on his way out
  • Shooting the messengers
  • Extradition mission
  • Channelling wealth
  • Jab race hits new snag
  • Bonds and budget blockers
  • Inside the mining mega deal
  • No jaw, jaw – just war, war
  • Opposition grows to Hamdok's deal as military digs in
  • ANC hits coalition conundrum
  • Deputy President Ruto steals a march on his rivals
  • Aiteo struggles with output and pollution in the Delta
  • Finance costs threaten the Nairobi-Mombasa express
  • Bank admits wrongdoing but hits out at data leak
  • Rich countries put a price on their delayed vaccine programmes
  • Uhuru wants his Jubilee
  • Kaboré searches desperately for answers on security
  • Everyone wants to be president
  • Premier Hamdok reinstated but military's fight with civilian opposition intensifies
  • After a four-year near absence, Washington's officials get serious about Africa again
  • Kampala bombings linked to Islamic State
  • The bank at the heart of the scandal
  • Exposed – the cost of Kabila's state capture 
  • Conakry gets its new class
  • Focused on the crises
  • In on the Actum
  • Meeting Moscow, battling Brussels
  • Lagos probe accuses military
  • A new political launchpad
  • Cash takes on the kingpins
  • Cracks in ZANU-PF edifice
  • Chasing the mining millions
  • ANC faces post-poll turmoil
  • When the parties go to pieces
  • Opposition mounts towards Saïed as protestors march on national assembly
  • Corruption, low investment and shrinking markets haunt oil and gas industry
  • Developing economies frustrated by failures on finance for loss and damage and ambiguities over the transition from coal and oil to green energy
  • Endgame of throne?
  • Bamako and Moscow defy Paris
  • African delegations frustrated by summit's weakness on climate finance and Europe's levies on fossil-fuel exports
  • Rebel advance drives a diplomatic flurry
  • Deputy President Ruto gets his divorce to escape the Jubilee party's awkward marriage
  • As negotiations step up the pace, western powers turn up pressure
  • UN Security Council calls for ceasefire as rebel alliance closes in on Addis Ababa
  • Populist anti-gay bill divides churches and activists
  • Row over abuse probe
  • Masisi and Khama step up the feud
  • Bomb suspects abound
  • ANC slumps to record low as voters stay away
  • Leaders clash over climate
  • A slow road to recovery
  • Probe focus shifts to Nyusi
  • The costs of Abiy's all-out war
  • Deep State in plain sight
  • Saïed channels Mussolini
  • The PJD loses its base
  • Has the sun set on the Brothers?
  • Burhan tries to negotiate after coup falters
  • Army bloodies Sufi militia
  • Makamba plans power reforms, aiming for the presidency
  • Gen. Burhan steps up post-coup crackdown as he offers to reinstate Premier Hamdok
  • ANC battles for votes as independents set for boost
  • Policy shifts on trade and public health
  • Big pharma offers flurry of deals on vaccine plants in Africa ahead of critical talks on patents
  •  New travel bans introduced as disputes break out over vaccine certificates
  • Bilateral talks could resolve rumbling fight over dairy and sugar trade
  • Equity for developing nations will be key target of conference
  • General Al Burhan's power grab
  • The street confronts the army
  • Kenyatta mulls the high cost of the handshake
  • More on Air Blair
  • Erdogan's Africa road-show
  • US gets its man
  • Phee's first footings
  • Cover-up in UN murders
  • At the mercy of friends
  • Elysée tries to reset history
  • Mabuza stirs a hornets' nest
  • Apathy and infighting hit ANC
  • A splintered sect
  • Into the hell of war, again
  • Abiy's war party digs in
  • Beijing uses its economic leverage
  • Scraping the barrel: why Shellexit doesn't mean the end of oil in Nigeria
  • Tax reforms – by the rich for the rich
  • After his inauguration, Prime Minister Abiy reshuffles the cabinet and launches new offensive in Tigray
  • International Court backs most of Mogadishu's claims to an oil and gas-rich zone in the Indian Ocean
  • Military faction fans crisis, trying to derail transition to elections
  • Raila beats Ruto as the oligarchs' favourite
  • Eastern strongman squares up for the polls
  • Migration politics
  • Fishing in undiplomatic waters
  • Big questions hang over the leadership of the International Financial Institutions
  • The opposition stays on hold
  • Mines ministry contenders
  • Probe into shootings of 'poachers'
  • Fraternal links fraying
  • Show us the money
  • Regime blames MPs for killings
  • Rivalry holds back the region
  • Mining magnates hail ruling
  • Toxic relationship in the Sahel
  • Anti-gay bill heads to house
  • Transfer window still open
  • High expectations of HH
  • How shadow states threaten democracies
  • Placing faith in future coal
  • International investigation into secret offshore accounts names Presidents of Kenya, Congo-Brazzaville and Gabon
  • On the runway again with sights on a continental carrier
  • Tedros tipped for another term despite fall-out with Addis
  • Appointment of first woman prime minister opens door to new government but IMF talks are on hold
  • The Wagner act
  • A trial on trial
  • Capital crimes
  • The President did it
  • Doublethink in Ecowas
  • Who judges the judges?
  • Deepwater oil deal hits a glitch
  • Who runs the Western Cape?
  • State taxes boost devolution
  • Why the Vatican vote counts
  • A win for the Makhzen
  • Why the killing of a spy is shaking the state
  • Brussels moves from rhetoric to policy on climate and vaccines
  • All the bigger parties could lose in the upcoming local elections
  • Climate, pandemic and conflicts to dominate meetings in New York
  • Moscow tilt poses risks
  • Junta opens transition talks
  • Adieu Saad Eddine el Othmani, bonjour Aziz Akhannouch
  • Safaricom and Vodafone get EU's green light for mammoth telecoms investment with Addis Ababa
  • The cold war continues after President Kagame delays response on meeting  President Museveni
  • President appoints the country's first woman defence minister in mini-reshuffle
  • Hey, big lender
  • This tweet for hire
  • Trovoada gets his man
  • Refining brand Weah
  • Presidents trade more blows
  • Hedging the Eagle and the Bear
  • Mega fraud trial grips nation
  • Ill fares the ANC
  • Lies, damned lies and statistics
  • Raila takes to the pulpit
  • Fighting for the fiscus
  • Sidelined legionnaire grabs the reins
  • Rich countries offer funds for future vaccine production but do little this year to get the serum to developing economies
  • Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo takes on mediating role in war as brickbats fly on both sides
  • Regional summit due to meet Thursday on post-coup crisis
  • First steps on the elections roadmap
  • Samia the securocrat
  • After Afghanistan, Abuja assesses the new geopolitics and its local choices
  • Deputy President Ruto caught off-guard
  • President Hichilema acts speedily on security and debt
  • Allies prove a trial for the President
  • Taking the stand
  • Playing the waiting game
  • How far can they fall (out)?
  • Cyril names a half-new cabinet
  • In need of a spark
  • Glencore signals new virtue
  • French lessons from Kabul
  • The bridge collapses
  • Doubts on elections multiply
  • Energy law unsettles rentiers
  • Reconciliation and a reckoning
  • The bills keep piling up
  • Diplomatic glitch after government agrees to take in Afghan refugees
  • President Kaïs Saïed extends his suspension of parliament as he confronts Islamist opposition
  • Health activists lambast plan to export South African-bottled vaccines to Europe
  • Africa's oil and gas producers are pushing back against the West's new carbon targets
  • A nightmare scenario for Premier Abiy Ahmed as regional opponents coordinate against the federal government
  • Appeal Court will pronounce this week on Odinga and Kenyatta's referendum and basic law plan
  • President Lungu dithers then concedes after challenger Hakainde Hichilema's landslide victory
  • High turnout augurs well for opposition but ruling party wavers on its acceptance of the results
  • Opposition surges ahead of critical vote
  • Machar survives bid to oust him but peace deal on the brink again
  • Trial of opposition activists will test President Hassan's reform credentials
  • Fossil fuel lobbyists prepare for hard-hitting UN Climate Change report
  • Ramaphosa reins in the spooks and picks new finance chief
  • Europe's economies race to look good
  • Going to market
  • False-flag operation
  • Crude deal
  • Promises, promises
  • Election bill deepens rivalries
  • The oil economy breaks up
  • Spy chiefs on manoeuvres
  • Who runs Gauteng?
  • After the insurrection
  • Addis tries to rewrite the script
  • Clearing up after the bulldozer
  • Rivals close as polling day nears
  • Diplomatic push for ceasefire as war enters 'dangerous new phase'
  • Arresting the secessionists risks diplomatic damage
  • Saïed lashes out
  • Election programme stutters
  • Nasa heads for crash landing
  • Israel's seat at the African Union
  • Vaccine demand spirals as third wave hits home
  • Funding boost needed to bridge two-track recovery
  • The elephants talk reconciliation
  • Kagame offers Europe a way out on migration
  • Nyusi annoys the neighbours
  • Eyes on the count
  • Victory by proxy
  • Warrant worries
  • Macron's man
  • Khartoum's fractious neighbours
  • Between money and the military
  • Anatomy of a failed insurrection
  • Who runs KwaZulu-Natal?
  • No good options on the table
  • Fighting escalates as federal ties fray
  • Third wave cases mount as tourism jobs crash
  • Ambitious Ruto parks his tanks on Kenyatta's lawn
  • More probes and prosecutions will follow failed insurrection
  • France and Russia tussle in Bangui
  • Grand corruption probes could cause economic and political fall-out
  • Court documents show Gertler at centre of $360m cash laundry
  • Burkina without Barkhane
  • Multi-party rebellion against Johnson government's aid cuts
  • Deputy President Ruto courts Museveni's support
  • After his election win, Abiy pressured on Tigray blockade
  • Dam solidarity in North Africa
  • Policy twists woo new investors
  • A state of royal denial
  • Protests gather steam
  • Imitation on asylum
  • Hitting the beach
  • Battles for the polls resume
  • Paris makes up with the junta
  • Why the dynasties fear Ruto
  • Digging deeper into debt
  • Relief as Zuma surrenders
  • A last bid for oil investors
  • Abuja takes on the secessionists
  • Italy's Eni misled shareholders
  • Going for the green
  • A king–size crisis
  • Tagwirei probe indicts top government officials
  • President bids to postpone poll
  • The Kenyatta-Odinga political plan goes back to the courts
  • Pandemic's third wave batters health services
  • Government's war plan falls apart
  • Odinga and Kenyatta plot deal on presidency and ministries
  • Stretching funds
  • Pandemic pricing
  • A slightly bigger tent
  • Farming out critics
  • A fox guarding the hen house
  • UN slams resources plunder
  • Banking on a fast recovery
  • Mogul shuffles his interests
  • The urgency of now
  • Debt crisis, what debt crisis?
  • War casts shadow over Abiy's election plan
  • Old foes re-enter the ring
  • Gabon ires fellow Africans at the UN
  • Country mourns its founding President and liberation movement ally
  • Tense vote overshadowed by regional divisions as Tigray war drags on
  • Gbagbo's return poses big questions
  • President Macron ends Opération Barkhane and dispels a few illusions
  • Ramaphosa puts Africa on the agenda and wins backing on vaccine distribution and production but doubts persist on funding 
  • UN figures showing catastrophic conditions and famine spreading amid Tigray conflict reinforce calls for concerted international action
  • East Africa aims to spend its way out of the pandemic recession
  • Cracking down on the Hirak
  • A new Danelaw
  • Controversial delta drilling
  • Nnamdi Kanu celebrates
  • Spain feels M6's fury
  • Pipeline may go nowhere
  • Motorbike killers strike again
  • Muddled meddling by the UAE
  • More time for the truth
  • Betting the farm on winning
  • Apology but no reparations
  • Tagwirei's pipeline under threat
  • A fresh presidential vote now due by the end of July
  • Delta militants threaten oil shut down over $4.8 billion of illegal contracts in regional development agency
  • Whitehall's planned foreign aid cuts condemned as immoral
  • Economic reforms accelerate in the shadow of the pandemic (as the naira nudges 500 to the US dollar)
  • Berlin offers $1.3billion to Namibia and Paris asks for forgiveness for involvement in genocides
  • Don't call it a coup
  • Cash for 'clearing houses'
  • Not so splendid isolation
  • Parting on patents
  • Chakwera loses his lustre
  • The prosecutor isn't so special
  • Picking up the pieces
  • Oil-backed loans cast shadow
  • Cracks in the ruling party
  • Fightback lands in the courts
  • Repression, guns and new laws
  • Nyusi angers the region
  • Bad omens for twice-postponed elections as Western states mull more sanctions
  • Two deaths that could strengthen the insurgents
  • Pressure mounts on rich countries and big pharma to act on global vaccine inequity
  • Promised 'new dynamic' at summit meets entrenched caution on debt and finance
  • War crimes trial divides justice-seekers
  • Touadéra tilts to Moscow, losing Western backing
  • Kampala takes on another military mission which could cool bilateral tensions over gold-looting in Ituri province
  • Prime Minister Hamdok wins critical backing for economic turnaround
  • Hopes for new initiatives on debt and finance at Africa summit hosted by Paris
  • Abiy Ahmed's government may rethink its telecoms reforms amid market jitters on security
  • Judges reject the Kenyatta-Odinga plan to remake government but help their rival Ruto
  • The northern nexus
  • Gertler's billions
  • Sankara's ghost
  • Total wants new terms
  • Sunshine with a hint of cloud
  • Emmanuel l'Africain II
  • Transition under pressure
  • Ofori-Atta promises a rebound
  • A country at war with itself
  • Fatigue may be fatal
  • Magashule overplays his hand
  • Edging Farmajo towards the exit
  • '#FixTheCountry' protestors move online after government bans demonstrations 'until further notice'
  • Health chiefs salute progress in lifting patents on Covid-19 vaccines but say India's crisis shows risks to Africa
  • Officials send conflicting signals over poll dates
  • President Ramaphosa winning on points as ruling party factions slug it out over graft and reform
  • President Hassan takes her charm offensive to Nairobi
  • Money prompts an about-turn on elections
  • Businessman Saab caught in Venezuela sanctions trap
  • The ruling party debates whether to suspend its Secretary General Ace Magashule 
  • Rift on security grows between state governors and presidency amid claims that insurgents threaten the capital
  • Washington talks multilateralism but offers soothing words on bilateral trade with Nairobi
  • Regional grouping postpones security summit 'indefinitely' as differences sharpen over Cabo Delgado conflict 
  • Nyusi's breaking point
  • Royalties row
  • Lobby shops curry favour
  • No more picking winners
  • Oil reform gathers pace
  • Forecasts fail to lift the gloom
  • Don’t show us the money
  • Coalition’s sky-high ambitions
  • Issayas in for the long haul
  • Fear and loathing in Monrovia
  • Death on the front line, a coup, and then an about turn
  • Port chiefs defend Bolloré deal after probe finds the state could lose over $4 billion
  • Militias opposing President Mohamed move into the capital after weekend of clashes
  • Parliament sets up roadblocks for Building Bridges law
  • Emission targets, climate finance and ecological trade-offs led the agenda at Washington summit
  • The IMF picks up the cheque as officials grumble
  • President Hassan treads carefully in post-Bulldozer era
  • Aid with election strings attached
  • Regional leaders pay homage to Déby at funeral summit
  • Last fling for fossil fuels in East Africa in $10 billion oil and pipeline project
  • Long-awaited new trade treaty lacks substance for Africa
  • Running out of public credit
  • Washington's front bench on Africa takes shape
  • The battle over the bench
  • Access denied
  • Chronicle of an election foretold
  • Talons out for the opposition
  • Eni handed oil stakes to officials
  • Human rights, export rights
  • The state capturers fight back
  • Unholy alliances
  • Much to be modest about
  • States rethink security
  • Eritrea entrenches in Tigray
  • Addis and Asmara exchange vows
  • A trio of presidential elections exposes democratic downturn
  • Voyage and vaccine inequities spark diplomatic row
  • Points of light as finance chiefs plot economic recovery
  • Regional leaders to meet in Maputo offering military help on Cabo Delgado insurgency
  • Tema players
  • Talon tightens his grip
  • Kolélas death leaves void
  • In Washington's sights
  • Dubaiba's honeymoon
  • Abiy gives first ground
  • Life after the bulldozer
  • How not to win friends
  • Gutting the opposition
  • PF bets it all on the polls
  • Kingdom in peril
  • Insurgents turn up the heat
  • Ramaphosa rallies ANC against the Zuma-Magashule axis
  • Abiy makes grudging admission on atrocities in Tigray
  • As questions mount over vaccinations, Kenyatta battens down the hatches again
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  • Death of opposition leader Kolélas overshadows Sassou's latest coronation
  • Addis pushes back against international pressure over Tigray
  • Disappearing jobs, roller-coaster oil prices and trade rules batter the economy
  • How the diplomatic impasse in North Africa hits trade
  • Recovery will need better trade terms and debt relief deals
  • Shell and Eni win in Milan
  • Oil on audit
  • High courts and hidden loans
  • After Magufuli, a difficult transition
  • Blaise plots comeback
  • Macky Sall buys some time
  • Many shoes to fill
  • Trafigura's middleman emerges
  • Raila's weak grip
  • Marred meeting of minds
  • Mutual distrust
  • Frosty formality
  • Biden's balancing act
  • The plot against Cyril
  • Sparring for a jab
  • More debt to tread water
  • Judicial system faces its own trial
  • Treasury plans a $1 billion plus Eurobond after a tough debt-restructuring
  • After reading its budget, the government plans a Eurobond road show next week
  • The opposition plans its pushback
  • The Magufuli mystery
  • Western officials weigh regional security role as calls grow for tougher measures against Kampala
  • From pandemic to infodemic
  • Elders call for reform, warning 'things are falling apart' as bandits and insurgents step up attacks
  • Gbagbo's and Bédié's parties join forces against Ouattara in parliamentary vote
  • Despite denials, vaccine nationalism is rampant
  • After Supreme Court backs Akufo Addo win, opposition gears up to pressure government
  • In on the act
  • Jubilee tent gets smaller
  • Election results spark riots
  • Mining tycoon's mercy flight
  • The money-sharing puzzle
  • Nowhere to hide
  • The wrong side of the law
  • Battle lines in the capital
  • Stirring the regional pot
  • US and European officials step up pressure on Addis Ababa over reports of war crimes in Tigray
  • First round of reform plan won by President Kenyatta and Raila Odinga
  • Growing threat of bandit-insurgent collusion in spate of attacks in northern states
  • Ramaphosa praises Finance Minister Mboweni as reshuffle rumours fly
  • Bank officials 'expose money-laundering network'
  • Mboweni's budget choice – austerity or bust
  • International crisis meetings over election impasse and growing violence
  • Rich countries slowly accept the pitfalls of vaccine nationalism
  • Border ructions escalate over Al Fashqa
  • Mboweni set to raise taxes and cut spending, trying to balance budget after the pandemic hit
  • Uhuru reshuffles and grows the government
  • Lisbon looks south
  • Apocalyptic warnings and threats in a week of escalating violence
  • Ace Magashule and his party allies plot their next moves
  • General confusion
  • Sall roots out rebels
  • A question of control
  • Green tax blow to Africa
  • Trouble in paradise
  • Fortune favours new regime
  • France holds tight in the Sahel
  • The captured spies
  • Shell retreats from the Delta
  • Politics of largesse
  • Far from obvious
  • The prosecutor rests his case
  • A presidential spoiler throws hat in the ring
  • Western pressure grows against Kagame over rights abuses
  • Activists question appointment of Briton as new prosecutor at beleaguered court
  • Farmers and fishermen free to sue Shell in landmark case
  • Row over delayed presidential election escalates
  • Questions mount over Macron's regional plan
  • After naira falls again, government raises debt ceiling
  • Ramaphosa evokes national rebirth with more jobs, power and vaccines
  • Partisan contests ramp up in the courts and parliament
  • Deputy President Ruto tries to sideline impeachment threat and lashes out at Odinga
  • Former Ambassador Manfi to head new interim government
  • Okonjo-Iweala to take over as WTO chief within days
  • All eyes on the African Union summit host
  • As Bobi Wine appeals against result, President Museveni plays nationalist card with European critics
  • Grandees at the memorial, a hustler in Mombasa
  • State of the nation – an austerity budget and corruption trials
  • Jagged path to elections
  • Nyusi's loyalty test
  • African concerns
  • Steinmetz's empire unravels
  • Fireworks on the streets
  • Tagwirei's hold on gold
  • Félix tips the scales
  • Shot in the dark
  • The guard changes, at last
  • Governments face a multi-speed rebound
  • Elections and crisis talks at the summit
  • More woe for President Nyusi as shipbuilder Safa drags him into $2 billion secret loan scandal
  • Opposition contender Wine asks court to overturn President Museveni's election win
  • Plot to impeach William Ruto gathers steam
  • Questions grow over timing and credibility of elections
  • Heavy lifting ahead after London's low-profile trade conference
  • Mixed signals about an election for a new governor in Nairobi
  • Another win for President Tshisekedi as parliament censures Prime Minister Sylvestre Illunga and clearing the way for a new government
  • Parliament backs cabinet reshuffle after a week of protests against inequalities and police brutality
  • Oppositionist Bobi Wine plans next move with party supporters after court orders military to end house arrest
  • After mounting security pressure, President sacks service chiefs
  • Steinmetz gets five years for bribery
  • Immune to diplomacy
  • No get out of jail card
  • Sassou soldiers on
  • The King's quiet gong
  • Both sides go to court
  • Outstaying welcomes
  • Victory under a cloud
  • Iron fist carries the day
  • Cyril and Ace's linked fates
  • Abiy risks more war
  • A scramble for vaccines
  • The race for Nairobi
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  • Opening the black box of Egypt's slush funds
  • Recovery and resistance
  • In intensive care
  • Nyusi running out of road
  • J-Lo suffers party backlash
  • How to lose a war
  • Bumps in the road ahead
  • Old demons resurface
  • Skirt and blouse politics
  • Election-mania takes hold
  • Mnangagwa digs in
  • Jockeying for position
  • Handshake to face poll test
  • Voting may not bring peace
  • Polls, parlays and proxies
  • Building the house of Sisi
  • Challenging the statist quo
  • Abiy’s search for legitimacy
  • Ready to rumble
  • Mapping the long road to recovery
  • Elections crisis escalates as Russian and Rwandan troops fly in
  • The state’s parallel economy
  • Out of the shadows 
  • Old treaty rolls over
  • Farmajo breaks with Nairobi
  • Two days that changed nothing
  • King reaps Saharan dividend
  • President nearer to power
  • Condé’s iron resolve
  • Unbalancing the books
  • Ace shuffles the deck again
  • Washington seals the deal
  • Abiy's mission in Mekelle
  • A twist in the election tale
  • Dauphin goes to the polls
  • Testing time for elections
  • SWAPO swept away
  • Long-distance leader
  • Pre-election jitters
  • The long arm of Addis
  • Tshisekedi’s moment of truth
  • The Hague’s unexpected guest
  • Museveni falls back on force
  • An uncivil union
  • Not so Roch solid
  • Protest, what protest?
  • Akufo-Addo keeps his lead
  • War resets the region
  • Citadel falls but the war goes on
  • Echoes of the dark days
  • Economy running on fumes
  • Creditors fume as the beat goes on
  • Anti-corruption boss 'no poodle'
  • By-election bust-up
  • Shooting and fishing
  • Too low, says Mo
  • Competing on competence
  • A divisive plan for unity
  • Gunfight ends 30-year calm
  • Ace arrest boosts Cyril
  • Risks on all fronts
  • Hard choices ahead in Addis
  • Mounting protests face police violence
  • Fears mount of all-out civil war
  • Stress test for the Tonse Alliance
  • One last hurdle
  • Sick of everything
  • Insurgents cross border
  • Ouattara sweeps half the board
  • Elections and bust
  • Bad cop, worse cop
  • Stepping back from the brink
  • Pandemics stunt your growth
  • The 'Ramaphosa Compromise'
  • Election stirs up apathy
  • Generals tighten their grip
  • Bulldozing to victory
  • Hope without optimism for the new deal
  • Condé shrugs off poll doubts
  • Unrest simmers over economy and Covid
  • Frelimo flounders in north
  • Jihadists trade up
  • Diallo jumps the gun
  • No contest poll for Ouattara
  • A change of tone
  • A DIY debt trap
  • The limits on the economy
  • States carry on regardless
  • New debt demand as bondholders defer decision
  • Rage at the gates
  • Leaders seek poll boost from pipeline deal
  • Koroma probe risks backlash
  • Raila's path to power
  • Amina misses out again
  • Bottling Wine
  • The great bond bust
  • Which way is Tebboune facing?
  • Paths out of the pandemic
  • Tigray takes on the centre
  • This time, it's personal
  • Private capital, green shoots
  • How to make oil pay
  • Colonels concede – but not much
  • Ouattara leads in a perilous poll
  • Summit catches a cold
  • Junta names front-man
  • Juba shops for new image
  • Heavy Russian metal
  • Keeping up with the Kenyattas
  • Edo's not so merry-go-round
  • Buhari goes to the market
  • For sale: one used war machine
  • Surge of the insurgents
  • Default hits election plan
  • Strife hampers Bio's reforms
  • Watering down the wine
  • A government walkover
  • Africans in the lead
  • Credit Suisse names Guebuza
  • Sins of the commission
  • Listing reputations
  • First the good news…
  • Regions take on the centre
  • Building back bigger
  • How to defend the indefensible
  • Exile flies into a trap
  • A shaky start for the new broom
  • Cyril wins a battle over graft
  • Parties campaign as jihadists advance
  • The downside of a landslide
  • The governor and the guv'nor
  • Don't you know who I am?
  • Terms of re-engagement
  • Trading favours
  • Graft puts ANC on the spot
  • All power to the governors
  • Time to re-open
  • Inside the state capture project
  • The junta haggles on transition
  • No road back for Keïta
  • Bridgette's border war escalates
  • Noisy neighbours
  • Governments reject UN report slamming rights abuses during pandemic
  • The Kenyatta-Odinga deal starts fraying
  • Citing force majeure, Ouattara will run for a third term
  • From debt to aid
  • Plenipotentiary redundancy
  • Polls boss row
  • From a grateful nation
  • Clearing a path
  • Groaning about zoning
  • Pandemic prospects
  • Rivals fight for control of Sirte
  • Realpolitik, with plenty of guns
  • Fury greets Gertler report
  • In Edo, all politics is national
  • In virus veritas
  • Mnangagwa in search of enemies
  • The Presidents' club backs Keïta
  • Lissu heads for home
  • Public relations premier
  • Red lines in the sand
  • In search of confidence
  • Unhealthy ambition
  • Ugly compromises
  • The shake-up that didn’t happen
  • Fight in the last chance saloon
  • Clash of the leaders
  • A favourite for an impossible job
  • A state of disconnect
  • A dangerous wave
  • Oromia cracks open again
  • In it together
  • Ballots and bishops
  • Quest for a new dauphin
  • The temporary consul
  • Reshuffles and releases
  • Lobbying grenades
  • Media denied oxygen
  • Showdown to follow lockdown
  • Pandemic mysteries multiply
  • Lazarus rising
  • Doubts over post-slump bounce
  • Keïta clings on
  • A big tent for Moi's children
  • The pride of lions
  • Divided we stand
  • At cross purposes on world trade
  • Magufuli wants a mega-dam
  • Crisis summit as insurgents head south
  • Fake news flashback
  • Narrow gaps
  • Taxing targets
  • A golden hoard
  • An 80s classic
  • Locking down the system
  • Rose-tinted budgets
  • The big borrow
  • Frelimo’s belated cry for help
  • The pandemic's collateral damage
  • State companies in the firing line
  • Retreating from the stage
  • Back to the scene of the crime
  • Life without the 'Supreme Guide'
  • Farewell to arms
  • Making free with repression
  • The sick men of Africa
  • Keïta cornered
  • Damning the parks
  • Steinmetz deal bears fruit
  • Elections or bust
  • Haftar falls back
  • Shabaab’s surge
  • Uhuru takes it out on his party
  • The dearth of data
  • New chief, old battles
  • Ruling party wants a reset
  • From great crash to weak bounce
  • Affairs of state and of the heart
  • Poll chaos looms
  • Into extra time
  • West too wild for Haftar
  • No smoke without Frelimo
  • Brussels' boil wash
  • Quicker march for the military
  • Gangs of the Copperbelt
  • Genocide manhunt goes on
  • Economics in a time of corona
  • The one-party statesmen
  • Cyril’s lockdown limits
  • The $10 billion gas plant that never was
  • False report of an assassination attempt against President Kenyatta
  • The lockdown finds pushback
  • The governor's governor
  • Coups and consequences
  • Ministers and militias
  • Whose cure is it anyway?
  • Refugees in crossfire
  • Who wants an election?
  • Gertler tries to dodge sanctions
  • A clumsy coup
  • Tsvangirai’s house divided
  • Into the land of empty
  • The Magufuli experiment
  • Keeping the food flowing
  • The plot against Tedros
  • On the brink of sovereign default
  • Who wants the oil?
  • Thabane out of time
  • Bongo returns
  • There will be blood tests
  • Unpacking Cyril’s stimulus
  • How Frelimo lost a province
  • Kudos to the health-workers
  • Scientists unite
  • AU pushes Africa bonds
  • Zimbabwe government close to collapse as Ncube sends plea for cash
  • Abba Kyari, 1952-2020
  • Ambition runs out of gas
  • State takes control
  • Prosecutors arrest bigwigs
  • Duelling impeachments
  • Oil behaving badly
  • Rule by rivalry
  • Farmers back on agenda
  • Unpopularity contest
  • Freight storm hits the port
  • No more heavy lifting
  • Adesina Agonistes
  • The war for the cure
  • Heroes and villains in the pandemic
  • Hard bargaining ahead on debt and public health
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  • King takes charge
  • Tunisia pushes for peace
  • Pre-self-isolated
  • The spring unsprung
  • The fourth horseman
  • Bye bye boom
  • A diversion for the premier
  • Virus rattles SWAPO
  • Relying on the neighbours
  • No coronavirus ceasefire
  • Voters self-isolate
  • IMF backs rapid funds
  • Protests on pause
  • Magufuli the outlier
  • Locking down politics
  • Army steps up role
  • Debt crisis deepens
  • Healthcare for dollars
  • Lagos takes the lead
  • The Kabila Strain
  • Poll in a plague year
  • Condé goes it alone
  • Cyril's double crisis
  • Into uncharted waters
  • Third wave threatens the continent
  • Turf war over Sahel
  • Scotland under siege
  • In search of an envoy
  • All is forgiven
  • Ouattara and son
  • Frontier fracas
  • New party, old tactics
  • Cairo and Addis split over dam
  • The hit on Hamdok
  • The Emir exits
  • The fight for Jubilee
  • Ramaphosa’s next test
  • Avoiding the nightmare
  • That dam problem
  • They're back
  • HYPREP's millions
  • Forced delay
  • Newish but not radical
  • Relief today, trouble ahead
  • Democratic, for a dynast
  • Oil, guns and politics
  • Aides leak, north-east burns
  • Tito takes on the workers
  • George Weah at bay
  • Clash of the kings
  • Why Africa is key to Green Economics
  • Wildlife targets
  • Unhealthy bank balance
  • Itula has another go
  • Terrorists at the table
  • Territorial armies
  • 'Eco'-logical concerns
  • Spoiling for a fight
  • Ramaphosus interruptus
  • Opposition in flux
  • Generals on the run
  • Beshir's trials begin
  • The state of Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Zitto's democracy tour
  • Mining for clarity
  • Putschist walks free
  • Soro sounds off
  • Beyond a hundred days
  • King for a year
  • Lourenço faces the crunch
  • A game of many nations
  • Over the rainbow
  • Shock ruling resets poll
  • Revenues and resources are the key
  • The fight over the missing billions goes global
  • In the rough
  • Security flashpoints and migration in Africa
  • Terminal turbulence
  • Power struggles and inflation
  • More trickle-down please
  • Nyusi’s win poses questions
  • Regime reality check
  • Life as a client state looms
  • Desperately seeking legitimacy
  • Multilateralism falters as crises multiply
  • Sahel summit's fighting talk
  • Point of no return
  • Polls, poverty and protest
  • Advantage jihadists
  • Presidential action replay
  • Portents over the presidency
  • Back to the one-party state
  • Jockeying for position
  • Finally, Cyril picks up the pace
  • African spring, economic winter
  • The sins of the father
  • Talons on display
  • First among unequals
  • Another day of reckoning
  • The son also rises
  • Activist King vs the activists
  • Peace deal wheelspin
  • In search of allies
  • Not yet, Generalissimo
  • Pouring cold water on the mega dam
  • Hage's hubris
  • Revenge of the rejects
  • Off the hook
  • The default is mine
  • KZN plots
  • Seeking special status
  • Iron back on track
  • Grasping the Eskom nettle
  • Trump talks peace
  • States of expectation
  • Building shaky bridges
  • Hard economics meets political pageantry
  • Assault on Mount Kenya
  • Démarches et détente
  • Latest Vaz plot fails
  • Oil majors tax threat
  • Intrigue at State House
  • The DA's race dilemma
  • Unity or bust for 2021
  • Hefty down payment for 2020
  • SWAPO stumbles
  • Cashing in on the crisis
  • Brexit and a trade pipe-dream
  • Delta pollution damned
  • Ruto-Raila (round one)
  • Water cannon fodder
  • Islamic state onslaught
  • Addis calling
  • Dancing the third-term tango
  • Coalition of the unwilling
  • Two visions lock horns
  • Command economics on trial
  • Fighting within the ranks
  • Two-track talks on the grand dam
  • Where's the plan?
  • Prize fight
  • BDP ends Khama's fightback
  • Fury over ambassador's exit
  • The Ambassador strikes back
  • Tuna bonds in Brooklyn
  • 'Dump Cyril' move in KZN
  • Get out of jail cashcard
  • Short circuits
  • Backs to the wall
  • The politics of counter-terror
  • The price of legitimacy
  • Up against the slowdown
  • Frelimo takes no chances
  • The taxman cometh
  • Failing power
  • Out of contract
  • Fund on standby
  • Protectionism and patronage
  • Breaking the democratic line
  • Washington’s man wades in
  • How to pay for Salva's jet
  • The elite’s big election fight
  • Ramaphosa writes off coal
  • Hungry for change
  • Dissident doctor
  • Magufuli's challengers recant
  • Emirati casualties
  • What the finance minister saw
  • New names, same games
  • Of puppets and godfathers
  • The talking cure
  • Summit bid to heal crisis
  • All the general’s hotels
  • Rushing to the ballot box
  • Lourenço woos New York elite
  • Into the unknown
  • Bridge of sighs
  • Backhander back at you
  • Putschists put away
  • Fake broadcast news
  • Opposition out of sorts
  • The oil clean-up that didn't?
  • Frelimo squares the vote
  • Jubaland row heats up oil tiff
  • Spending on the hoof
  • Bridge over troubled finance
  • The China price
  • Mourning and machinations
  • Cash at the generals' command
  • Yes, we loved him once
  • Ramaphosa, right and left
  • Divorce Moroccan-style
  • Ruing the day
  • Hamdok's appeal
  • Peter da Costa
  • Juba's payday loan habit
  • No let-up in post-election war
  • ANC tries to stop the rot
  • Waiting on the general
  • Upstarts and old guards
  • Executive exerts its privilege
  • Power play in Harare
  • Activists take on the crisis
  • Bunkering mentality
  • Lobbyist of last resort
  • New faces, old enmities
  • AGOA no go
  • Cashew crisis grinds on
  • Meltdown in the party
  • Leaning to the left
  • Guilty plea on conspiracy
  • High risks, low politics
  • The Crown Prince’s power play
  • From revolution to realpolitik
  • Proxies battle over Tripoli
  • The party and the pendulum
  • Sisi's Sinai stalemate
  • Vaz clings on
  • Spinner caught in web
  • Off the case
  • One rule for the party
  • Kasaï peace at risk
  • Fund falls for Sassou
  • Paris’s terror dilemma
  • The Gang of 43 breaks cover
  • Zuma blusters at Zondo
  • The Egypt model isn't working
  • A killing joke
  • Asmara and Amhara
  • Lungu to change basic law
  • Terminated
  • SWAPO succession dilemma
  • Roads, rails, pots and kettles
  • Lobbying pays off for Bourita
  • HYPREP’s checkered rep
  • False starts for the clean-up
  • Running on close to empty
  • Military roadblocks
  • Air strikes risk escalation
  • The politics behind the putsch
  • Rounding up unusual suspects
  • Frelimo on a roll
  • Gag on security reporting
  • Militia starts scare
  • 'Rot' in the Commission
  • Nobbling Nabil
  • Ghazouani’s modest mandate
  • The rise of Godwin Emefiele
  • Ace helps his allies
  • Mbororo conundrum
  • Singing from the same spreadsheet
  • Chaos helps Mutharika
  • Cocoanomics
  • Unchanging of the guard
  • A tale of two ANCs
  • Seeds of instruction
  • An oily threat to Sall
  • Washington stirs the UN pot
  • Missing you already
  • Tshisekedi tries his luck
  • Oando chief takes on his foes
  • Enemies without, and within
  • Freedom under fire
  • Austerity first
  • Köhler leaves the hot seat
  • New Khama party takes off
  • Chang dodges US extradition
  • Father of the bridge
  • Between Blaise and jihad
  • Troubles mount for Buhari
  • Little cash, no credit
  • A shake-up takes shape
  • Mutharika’s narrow win
  • Readying for protest
  • Long shadow of corruption over new order
  • EU-ACP ties in question
  • Khama's tactical shift
  • OPL245: Fight or flight
  • A Talon for authoritarianism
  • Weah on borrowed time
  • Farmajo's big push
  • Graft, or statescraft?
  • Sonangol's head rolls
  • Pushing out the privateers
  • The Ramaphosa relaunch
  • A military-Islamist complex
  • Cutting a deal on a knife-edge
  • Move over darling
  • Chill on the border
  • Hirak tracks west
  • 'Roll more heads'
  • Patchwork diplomacy
  • Treasury in the red
  • Belt, road and pork barrel
  • Talon turns back the clock
  • ANC split threatens campaign
  • A battle against the clock
  • Campaign plumbs the depths
  • Slowing down but borrowing more
  • Currency scams block reforms and deepen crisis
  • Whose chair is it anyway?
  • Counter-terror error
  • Atiku takes his beef to DC
  • Key round to Masisi
  • Condé bids for third term
  • 'Not even the Pope'
  • Out for the count
  • Jihad's shifting fronts
  • Big data state
  • Haftar stakes it all
  • The revolution rumbles on
  • Stumbles at the falls
  • Birthday blues
  • Assoumani's way
  • Donors' aid parade
  • Electoral arithmetic
  • Clean-up or cover-up?
  • Koroma’s record on trial
  • A storm in a port
  • The real post-election fight
  • Nuts to the market
  • Protests flush out the old guard
  • Farming gamble fails
  • Is it an olive branch?
  • New man for the horn
  • Reformers take power
  • Fighting withdrawal
  • Ncube wins foreign fans
  • Kabila corners Tshisekedi
  • ANC’s not-so-clean slates
  • A spring in the step
  • Election credibility on trial
  • Sibling rivalry turns ugly
  • Border tension grows
  • Flight of fancy
  • The cost of war
  • Sall romps home
  • Contradictions in the contracts
  • A surprise reunion
  • Abiy dining dangerously
  • Haftar puts south in the game
  • Ramaphosa’s high-wire act
  • War of the running mates
  • The stayaway election
  • El Beshir mulls the endgame
  • Sall campaign 'fakes news'
  • Bumps on the road to peace
  • Panic in the politburo
  • Fishing for favours
  • Attacks spur ethnic violence
  • Back to the future dollar
  • Cash in the cabinet
  • All bets are off
  • Shabaab fight in high gear
  • Macky wants first round KO
  • Governors get set
  • Drama in the delay
  • Pushing Beshir towards the exit
  • From bullet to ballot
  • Memo misfire
  • Diplomatic differences
  • Errors of judgement
  • President says au revoir
  • Eight years of transition
  • A party at war
  • Mountains to climb
  • Anglo at a turning point
  • The President's anger
  • Glitches in the growth
  • A fragmentary future
  • A day of portents
  • A stasis of emergency
  • Anger and innovation
  • A compromised regime
  • Midterm blues and red lines
  • A rapidly growing field
  • Sliding into autocracy
  • Debt and discontent
  • Turbulent beginnings
  • Three's a crowd
  • Africa in 2019: The youngest continent fights back
  • US spears the loan sharks
  • Mogadishu lashes out
  • Key events in South Africa in 2019
  • Data leak exposes plot to steal presidential vote
  • Sall safe for second term
  • Peace maybe, prosperity no
  • Business thrives, society waits
  • Fighting fear with freedom
  • Goodbye to all that
  • Win first, then work
  • The fight for the ANC’s soul
  • A poll without passion
  • Disputes, disruptions and a new diplomatic order
  • The people's spring against Beshir
  • Church claims sweeping opposition win
  • Adieu 2018, legacies of a troubled year
  • John Howe, 1938-2018
  • Kofi Annan (1938-2018)
  • JH Mensah, 1928-2018
  • Lungu's to lose
  • Mnangagwa's resolution
  • Grafting against corruption
  • Not waltzing in Vienna
  • Mnangagwa wants his pipeline
  • Taking the heaviest of tolls
  • The forgotten army
  • 'America first' for Africa
  • The Twelve Fixes of Christmas
  • Election bored game
  • Sharks in an oily soup
  • Blow to jihadists
  • End for Trovoada
  • Democratic deficit
  • Boycott threatens landslide
  • Détente derailed
  • Mutharika’s uphill battle
  • The year of the empty threat
  • Poll fight for Farmajo
  • Sisi & Sons
  • Paris clashes with Moscow
  • Fund in the firing line
  • Clean-up gets murky
  • Hey, big spender!
  • Mahama wants a replay
  • Fertilise this
  • Vaz kicks it into touch
  • Second-round grudge match
  • The sick men of North Africa
  • Posturing in Palermo
  • A well-oiled machine
  • Rounding up the suspects
  • Frelimo waits them out
  • Finding for the government
  • Ramaphosa rattled
  • Militias flex their muscles
  • Promises, promises
  • Moscow abhors a vacuum
  • Khama moves on Masisi
  • Don't call them transit camps
  • Day return to Juba please
  • A bridging loan too far
  • Weah awash in scandal
  • Biya’s hollow victory
  • US strikes, Shabaab gains
  • The Brexit connection
  • Debts and denials
  • Cyril’s new business plan
  • Trafigura in a tug-of-war
  • Big men bid high for the top job
  • Those pesky human rights
  • The flight into Israel
  • Museveni widens the tent
  • Poll blow for Trovoada 
  • Who speaks for Africa?
  • Lining up for battle
  • Struggling to keep pace
  • Poll knocks Frelimo confidence
  • Push-ups and makeovers
  • Now the race looks serious
  • Going bilateral on migration
  • A clumsy crackdown
  • Another one bites the dust
  • Shelter for favouritism
  • The heist that never was
  • A splurge before the squeeze
  • Hanging on a click factor
  • Limbo after ghost elections
  • Turks in troubled waters
  • Riyadh to the rescue
  • Elephants in an angry room
  • Biya's no-change election
  • EU auditors slam spending
  • Brussels bridles Beijing
  • Graft-busters busted
  • Sisi in the city
  • Rallies shatter fragile peace
  • Man in a hurry
  • Museveni to tough it out
  • Money worries
  • No cash, no peace
  • Populists hack at the budget
  • Investors weigh rescue plan
  • Big business gets stuck into the elections
  • Bonds crash as donors cut funding
  • Says no to computer
  • Not lacking convictions
  • A bridge too far
  • Terrain trial
  • Fuelling a debt crisis
  • Another trade muddle
  • Deep waters
  • Graft worsens cash squeeze
  • Open for negotiations
  • The house of hunger revisited
  • Turning down the volume
  • Wave of protests rattles Museveni
  • Bonds, bills and ever bigger debts
  • No son, you can't run
  • Putting it to the vote again
  • Two suitors for the FPI
  • Whose coup is it anyway?
  • Little growth, less opportunity
  • Europe discovers Africa, again
  • One province’s perilous poll
  • Kabila's two-front offensive
  • The worm turns
  • Blame game scuppers reform
  • The judges join in
  • Wrath rules
  • President plays by his rules
  • Abiy dials down Pax Ethiopia
  • Gas contract claims minister
  • This bum for hire
  • Court in the act
  • Deal or no deal?
  • Politics of patronage
  • Barbarians at the gate
  • Raila rebounds
  • A flood of rumours
  • Backers and attackers
  • Kabila names his dauphin
  • The great observer gamble
  • A disputed crown for the crocodile
  • Uncivil action
  • Farmajo's Brussels win
  • It's Ouattara's party
  • The dollars after the votes
  • Question on Oromo peace
  • Fiscal fails and testing talks
  • ISIS’s nemesis
  • Sanctions and splits
  • Electoral déja-vu
  • A deluge of injustice
  • The probity contest
  • The rocks she hasn't got
  • New Islamists on the block
  • A seven-year hitch
  • Rationing corruption
  • Shaky start for Sahel force
  • Another political fix
  • Corruption inquiry takes off
  • Hanging on a handshake
  • In the mood for change
  • Dead in the water
  • A split by any other name
  • From the edge of war to the bridge of love
  • Move over, grandad
  • Sparks still fly
  • Abiy scores – so far
  • A proconsul retires
  • Scuttle diplomacy
  • Trading blocs hit the blocks
  • Adieu à Françafrique
  • Discontent takes wing
  • Bombs, smoke and mirrors
  • Full of sound and fury…
  • The lone general
  • Putting on the brakes
  • Koroma accused of grand corruption
  • Masisi steps out of Khama's shadow
  • Offensives and reshuffles
  • Monrovia questions UN record
  • Weah scores away
  • Jobs for Raila's boys
  • Threats to peaceful poll
  • Squeaking in and cutting back
  • A toxic brew
  • Militants pick their party
  • Pushback peril for Abiy
  • Making the miners sweat
  • The tail that wags the dog
  • How to fix a coalition
  • A radical bid for peace and economic change 
  • Ely Calil, 1945-2018
  • Migration clouds treaty hopes
  • Conté's long shadow
  • Moyane spoiling for a fight
  • All things to all factions
  • This land may be your land
  • An untimely death
  • Shabaab takes to the air
  • Cracks spread in APC alliance
  • Debt spike threatens reserves
  • The Sahara conflict is back
  • Korean barbecue down south
  • Solutions scarce as chaos grows
  • Vaz gives in
  • Peace in peril as Dhlakama dies
  • Short walk to freedom
  • Gold fever
  • Friends with benefits
  • A swirling fog of debt
  • Sounding the alarms on debt
  • Clashes over 'clean coltan'
  • Splits and special pleas
  • Tax and spend dilemmas
  • Proxies, powers, and presidents
  • Banda flies home
  • Language barriers
  • Europe banks on Africa
  • Who wants to see a billionaire?
  • Narrow win constrains Bio
  • Fear stalks the economy
  • Polls code sparks crisis
  • Unbowed, Zuma seeks revenge
  • Abiy tests the military
  • Diplomats down, spies up
  • An election on autopilot
  • Obrigado e tchau, Dos Santos
  • Abiy goes goodwill hunting
  • Believe the handshake
  • Frankly undermined
  • Cooking the books
  • Where's the delivery man?
  • Issoufou under fire
  • Mixed messages
  • Ace in a hole
  • Behind the curtains
  • As the debts balloon, Lungu avoids the spotlight
  • Zumaists and Ramaphorians
  • AGOA hits Mitumba
  • World Cup warm-up
  • UK leans to Mnangagwa
  • Migration tests 'partnership'
  • Doubts about unity deal
  • Funds for all the family
  • Vaz defies sanctions
  • Into the valley of debt
  • Abiy makes a promising start
  • No farewell to arms deals
  • Salva's bunker mentality
  • Return of the Jagaban
  • Enemies without and within
  • Fishing for recognition
  • Fates of the opposition
  • Nine angry men
  • Maputo's haircut
  • Deep sea intrigue
  • The Great Lakes gold rush
  • Seizing the spoils of war
  • Geingob reasserts control
  • A well-scripted succession
  • Ramaphosa begins world tour
  • Cash pipeline set to flow
  • APC tries to stall election
  • Raila beats rivals to a new deal
  • Mogadishu fires broadside at UAE
  • Salva stalls the peacemakers
  • Any port in a storm
  • G5 unsure on role
  • Abuja comes to Milan
  • Flights of fancy
  • New jihadist alliance strikes
  • Kabila's survival strategy
  • Down the autocrat's alley
  • Who goes first?
  • Oromia on a knife edge
  • Zexit, Ramaphoria, then political landmines
  • Not yet Team Ramaphosa
  • Tax treaties 'made by the rich'
  • The Tinubu test
  • The boys for the black stuff
  • Fertilising dialogue
  • Auntie Pat's spat
  • An inspector calls, no longer
  • 'Usual suspects' face challenge
  • 'Feigned lawsuit' bid to foil US
  • The edifice cracks
  • After Tsvangirai
  • Kabila squeezes the miners
  • A Saint Valentine's Day massacre, of sorts
  • Zuma goes down fighting
  • Polisario and the fish pact
  • Lease to appeal
  • Slow track for loans case
  • Drilling down
  • Skeletons in the cupboard
  • Jockeying for position
  • Strains on the front line
  • Flying blind
  • Rumblings in the regions
  • The goodbye gets longer
  • Rival Arab powers take their fight to Africa
  • Diplomats and journalists drawn into election row
  • IMF stops funds over 'election' budget
  • Judges to rule on Lungu's future
  • Socialists sack Sall
  • Refugee protest in Tel Aviv
  • Obiang foils coup
  • Roll with the punches
  • Lungu's costly power play
  • Cycle of broken deals
  • Weah's known unknowns
  • El Sisi's shrinking circle
  • Tunis fiddles as revolt grows
  • Big change, no fanfare
  • Two steps forward…
  • Cracks in the federal system
  • Trouble in the engine room
  • A year to deliver
  • Political rift will linger
  • Crushing the enemies within
  • The electoral mirage
  • Cold war and glacial change
  • Forward on the southern front
  • Bombs, votes and petrodollars
  • Maputo faces off with the Fund
  • Wanted: change and security
  • All about votes and the naira
  • Cyril presses his advantage
  • Old ZANU-PF in new bottles
  • Pushing Zuma to the exit
  • Splits and fusions
  • Low expectations for peace talks
  • Probing the gold
  • UN raid's complex causes
  • Pepper spray
  • Allowance alliance
  • Fear in the franc zone
  • Courtship and crackdowns
  • Stumbling into a debt crisis
  • Separatists on the march
  • Power to the president's elbow
  • A martial mind-set
  • A fight to the photo-finish
  • Farm-downs and cash-cows
  • Migrants rock the summit boat
  • Honeypot on wings
  • Bibi goes vote shopping
  • Macron woos Ouaga
  • Street meets state
  • A homemade disaster
  • Dos Santos clan targeted
  • Slippage, not suffrage
  • The countdown begins
  • Banda’s Faustian pact
  • Fraud claims fail to convince
  • Destruction in his wake
  • Hopes and fears for the new old guard
  • Grenades against peace
  • Patriotic front on back foot
  • Making policy on the hoof
  • Trading on the fly
  • SACP on the ballot
  • Buried in the wreckage
  • Macron ponders Africa play
  • Militants turn the screw
  • Buhari opens the war chest
  • The race gets uglier
  • Counting on the counties
  • Unpacking Raila's resistance
  • The crocodile snaps back
  • Mugabe drops the crocodile
  • Whose aid is it anyway?
  • Oromia on the edge
  • What the landslide buried
  • No let-up in southern fighting
  • Laying down the law
  • Hichilema pushes for Commonwealth talks
  • Snagged by the Guptas' global reach
  • One man, one vote
  • Kinshasa-on-the-Potomac
  • Bongo clubbed in Paris
  • Dos Santos Inc. sinking
  • Party debts hold back Nyusi
  • A question of legitimacy
  • Weah walks up to the spot
  • Both sides double down
  • Risorgimento Africano
  • Terminal EPA delay
  • M6's apprentices
  • Guns, gas and nukes
  • Signals of change
  • Team Nyusi wins a point
  • Afro optimism loses momentum
  • When oil chiefs fall out
  • Rifts in the regions
  • Mabuza changes the race
  • A commission under siege
  • Weah sprints towards an open goal
  • Crisis? What crisis?
  • The seven ages of Museveni
  • Mystery of the missing mine profits
  • Balancing the good cop with the bad
  • The Duke of Richmond, 1929-2017
  • Justice and jurisdictions
  • Game of names
  • Asphalt jungle
  • New man takes it slow
  • Mayhem among the militias
  • Mutharika's uncertain future
  • No open-and-shut case
  • A test for people power
  • On Ouattara's terms
  • Magufuli on the warpath
  • Homage to Catalonia
  • Game of mansions
  • Bibi rebuffed
  • Euronews 'soft on Angola'
  • Clashes in the east
  • Picked up or not picking up?
  • Own goal in Ouaga?
  • False start to IMF talks
  • Sassou in a corner
  • El Sisi marshals his allies
  • Opposition's ailing fortunes
  • ANC contest lands in court
  • KPMG feels the Gupta heat
  • Storm over probe into UN experts murder
  • The incumbent never loses
  • The EAC's used clothes
  • No safe press haven
  • A dam for a daughter
  • FQM's missing figures
  • Stalemate and stand-off
  • 'Dirty tricks' target Cyril
  • The split that never was
  • Pretty vacant presidency
  • Abuja's high hopes in New York
  • The next trial of strength
  • Crisis over, crisis goes on
  • Secrets of the Dos Santos media empire
  • Abdel Aziz way
  • No news from Kinshasa
  • Diallo buried with his secrets
  • Sugar loaf sell-out
  • Can the usurpers unite?
  • Trovoada's Chinese gamble
  • The state stays captured
  • Dos Santos Inc. under threat
  • A technical knock-out
  • New elections, old battles
  • Hacks against facts
  • All at sea over migration
  • Desperate for a diamond fix
  • Military justice
  • Seek asylum elsewhere
  • No licence to drill
  • Who loves ya, BBY?
  • After Ellen
  • ANC dilemma deepens
  • Court in the cross-fire
  • Donors risk funding a fix
  • Letting a crisis go to waste
  • Trading places and faces
  • Battle of the opinion polls
  • Murder most foul
  • Luanda uneasy as poll approaches
  • Khartoum comes to Kensington
  • Bye bye magic money tree
  • Nkaissery leaves the stage
  • Growth and less opportunity
  • Sanctions test for Trump
  • The high cost of fighting fraud
  • Magufuli's law
  • Diezani in their sights
  • Losing control in Kasaï
  • A landslide foretold
  • Reforms stall as unrest eases
  • Killing fields in the Rift Valley
  • Escrow case takes wing
  • In a state of suspense
  • IMF to rescue of CFA
  • Sassou's family values
  • Cyril's musical chairs
  • Rock and Kroll
  • Casino Jack plays his hand
  • No last trump for AGOA
  • Polarisation politics
  • Vote-rigging just got harder
  • Closer and closer
  • Action plan to crack the Inga enigma
  • Split threatens food supplies
  • EFF-ANC alliance floated
  • UN joins G-5 force
  • Friends in African places
  • The ghost of elections past
  • UK vote stalls trade talks
  • Chill in the air for Chenge
  • Risks for all in mining row
  • Opinion polls in question
  • Mugabe the juggler
  • Trafigura aims for gas prize
  • Factional fireworks threaten party
  • Refining impurities
  • Dos Santos’s Cannes do son
  • Rif in revolt
  • Army shadow over polls
  • Uhuru sweats as Raila rallies
  • Here come the data-miners
  • Insiders dissect secret audit
  • Zuma's chaos theory
  • A test of wills over mining
  • States of failure
  • The great growth divide
  • Bow ties, flashing smiles and the big sell
  • Mali for Macron
  • Economically bankrupt
  • Cash and cache
  • The fall of 'King Paul'
  • …A harsher one in Mogadishu
  • A hopeful view in London…
  • Germany's turn to Africa
  • Kabila thriving on chaos
  • Secret deal to end copper war
  • Inflation fears are back
  • The Anglophone spring
  • A date with destiny
  • Militias change gear as violence surges
  • What Bongo owes
  • An avenger unmasked
  • Thiam verdict makes waves
  • High Court, high drama
  • Polls provide no answers
  • Uhuru spends, Raila promises
  • Majors push out the minnows
  • Spat with FQM continues
  • Spinning Africa in Europe
  • No place to hide
  • Everyone's fault but Zuma's
  • Bitter pills for the politicians
  • Primary colours
  • Less Blair for Africa
  • Macky challenger gaoled
  • The trillion rand thank you
  • Corruption climate warming
  • Vaz clings to power
  • Concealing disappointment
  • Finding Africa on K Street
  • Bongo's fund embrace
  • A meandering audit trail
  • Mr Gigabyte's baptism of fire
  • To sue or to schmooze
  • Motorcade, treason and plot
  • Guelleh quells opponents
  • No pay, no ports, no deal
  • Desperation and inspiration
  • Runway overrun
  • Sex, rebels and Paris trips
  • Heroes and villains
  • Lungu's way and the highway
  • New populist hires old faces
  • Ambition and ethics
  • New script in KwaZulu-Natal
  • Gigaba raises sights still higher
  • Zuma's edifice starts to wobble
  • Magufuli backs hard man
  • SACP threatens JZ
  • Water emergency
  • Plan Bibi for AU
  • Bye bye Benkirane
  • Timis takes shine off boom
  • Omens and portents
  • Bank scandals hit MPLA hard
  • Combat and compromise
  • The great oil chase
  • Storm over $10,000 permit
  • Pariahs united
  • Broken China
  • Standoff in the Sahara
  • Mutharika's woes look terminal
  • Squaring the triangle
  • Mega-projects await reforms
  • Peace moves stumble
  • More progress, less movement
  • Poll calendar under pressure
  • Nyusi celebrates Exxon's entry
  • How to repeat the Mugabe mantra
  • Lungu’s terms and conditions
  • Registering interest
  • Compromise in Conakry
  • Power before food
  • Shock pick for PM
  • Sour fate of sugar project
  • Aides with agendas
  • Bouteflika unbowed
  • Hot-money boost for economy
  • Health checks
  • Museveni goes for gold
  • Zuma's anti-Gordhan play
  • A racing start in spite of the rocky finances
  • An awkward tango for Gertler and Glencore
  • Whose judge is it anyway?
  • Access all assets
  • Two trumpeteers overboard
  • Don't read the fine print
  • Poaching and gamekeeping
  • Taylor tries to sway vote
  • MPs reject foreigners' choice
  • ZANU-PF digs for votes
  • Professional fouls
  • The untouchable funds
  • Leader's demise imperils deal
  • The state of Jacob Zuma's presidency
  • Taylor calls politicians from prison
  • Front lines in flux
  • Squeezing the banks
  • Another Kenya army base hit
  • Jammeh's long goodbye
  • Artfully dodging debt
  • Kabila's co-opted cabinet
  • Eritrea's unsettling alliance
  • The endless election
  • Warning shots from the army
  • Kith, kin and cosh
  • Naval deal under spotlight
  • Calling Trumpsville
  • The scramble for the chair
  • Development state digs in
  • Benkirane's 'bras de fer'
  • Vote row threatens economy
  • Hery's hard line
  • Electoral test for Condé
  • Out with the Ould
  • The South fails the North
  • Museveni's marathon
  • Global shocks, local differences
  • Paris sends Sahel signal
  • The power and the glory
  • Pressure-cooker polls
  • Surviving elections and jihad
  • Elusive legitimacy
  • A coalition of hope
  • Cold and hot wars
  • Lungu for longer
  • Mugabe's waiting room
  • Frelimo's quagmire
  • Power struggle goes nuclear
  • A scorched earth peace
  • Money and the military
  • New order tackles old debts
  • Partisan politics runs riot
  • The bad loans bite back
  • Jammeh feels the heat
  • Breaking point
  • MK vs JZ
  • NASA for launch
  • Gunning for aid
  • Dos Santos picks his man
  • Zille threat to De Lille
  • The numbers game next year
  • Killers crowd in
  • Lungu against the law
  • Preparing for the worst
  • Gambia at the cliff-edge
  • Things fall apart in Rivers vote
  • A turning point vote for the Black Star
  • Electoral process stumbles but stays on track 
  • Sanogo finally on trial
  • Old man trouble
  • Army's 'Biafra' overreaction
  • Gordhan in ratings war
  • Pledges lack promise
  • Timis's seam of woe
  • Clinging to the wreckage
  • 'Afrexit' on hold
  • Kabila ducks and dives
  • New faces, old tactics
  • Grandees test the water
  • Jobs and corruption dominate election agenda
  • Fuel fund fracas
  • Post mortem
  • Loosing the bonds
  • Shabaab fills Ethiopian vacuum
  • Empty words on graft
  • ISIS's Puntland stunt
  • Starting the post-Zuma race
  • Comradely disunity
  • The burden of war and debt
  • A heartbeat away from Lungu
  • The bulldozer's light tread
  • Nairobi flaunts its credentials
  • Political schisms hit recovery and reform
  • More growth, more debt
  • Graft disrupts long goodbye
  • Rio quits Simandou
  • How to win friends
  • Colliding worlds
  • Taking a pounding
  • The securocrats get stronger
  • Amina jumps to the front
  • A week of defeats for Zuma
  • Getting ready for trouble
  • More talk talk than walk walk
  • The people's IMF
  • Killing overshadows talks
  • Buhari's kitchen cabinet
  • Shifting borders south
  • Premier Benkirane is back
  • Ruling party ploughs on
  • Diversification or bust
  • Stalwarts push for Zuma's exit
  • Killings threaten shaky peace
  • Dar wins from regional shift
  • Good gas and bad governance
  • Kabila slides into a legitimacy crisis
  • Iron Man
  • One-man dialogues
  • Coordinated exit
  • Safe choice, vexed process
  • Jubilee unites ahead of poll
  • Electoral roads to federalism
  • Did Khartoum cross the line?
  • Jammeh tilts the playing field
  • More guns, more secret debts
  • Zuma largesse under fire
  • Fears of a great unravelling
  • Impatience
  • From beer to betting
  • Funds to remain
  • New meetings, old answers
  • Ramaphosa ready for launch
  • Salva and Riek in the dock
  • Death of a front-runner
  • Age cannot weary him
  • Push-ups and pushback
  • Instability goes national
  • No oil, no money, no deal
  • Bad report card
  • Political football claims aide
  • Kasambara incarcerated
  • Moi après Kenyatta?
  • Judges in the firing line
  • Funeral fusillade hits Zuma
  • The debt merry-go-round
  • EU tiptoes into minefield
  • Uhuru goes banker-bashing
  • Ouattara shores up legacy
  • Bongo's incredible win
  • Technology against tricksters
  • Improbable poll
  • Exeunt UN
  • Pushing Sylvestre
  • Oily enclave
  • Chimwenje or chimera?
  • Press on the button
  • Power to the provinces
  • Feds grab middleman
  • No compromise, no bail
  • A dollar emergency
  • Ministry of muddle
  • Lungu's victory under fire
  • Bongo's sure bet
  • One-party stasis
  • Patriotism, politics and position
  • Pax Salvatica
  • Zuma carries on regardless
  • The centre holds on
  • Strategic, and shaky
  • A curious coup
  • Asylum alarums
  • Kasaï takes off
  • Zeroual's next move
  • Bugging the buggers
  • Rolling with the punches
  • A look ahead
  • Paris calling
  • Reigning again
  • Early retirement
  • The clocks go back
  • Trumping the King
  • Septuagenarian struggle
  • A cloudy dawn
  • It's fine by the AU
  • Run-off wrangle
  • Nkosazana's trial balloon
  • Signing bonus
  • Fear stalks the law
  • Riek rival boosts Salva
  • Racing to the finish
  • Unending flow of Cashgate
  • The scramble for the spoils
  • Juicier carrots, heavier sticks
  • Trovoada's triumph
  • Big win for Vaz
  • Another restive region
  • Saudi wants one too
  • A gathering storm
  • Kaizar the kingpin
  • Lungu's media vendetta
  • Dos Santos takes stock, shares
  • ANC unruffled by DA surge
  • Finally, the AU moves in
  • Dollar crisis puts opposition on the streets
  • Red Sea wrangles
  • Trying treason
  • Dam fine
  • Chip off the oil block
  • Warnings of a bad election
  • Cracks widen in peace deal
  • Frelimo's ostrich plan
  • Mercy and Machiavelli
  • Gadaffi's desperate bid
  • Old guards try new uniforms
  • Ellen's followers
  • A close political race gets angrier
  • Angry Sisi lashes judiciary
  • Not the last Post
  • Tighter rules on war booty
  • The Delta-naira yoyo
  • The big rand short
  • The General's identity crisis
  • Condé follows regional lead
  • Bird flu ruffles feathers
  • Political plots in a slow month
  • From putschist to third termer
  • A new deal in the East
  • Battles on the judges' bench
  • Political questions loom as debt deal is set for September
  • Destabilising NGOs
  • Dam provocations
  • Stand-off over Dadaab
  • The Sonangol is you
  • Not the court of Africa
  • Hacks off
  • The soul of transparency
  • Memories of regimes past
  • A 'presidential coup'
  • Hangover cures in Lusaka
  • Political football over the ref
  • Budget battles as election race heats up
  • Assassins and arrow boys
  • Separating mosque and state
  • Guptas' export drive
  • State of fear
  • Filling Obiang's boots
  • Mine sale prompts tax grab
  • Sable bribery repercussions
  • ICC down but not out
  • Economic sands start to shift
  • Xenophobia on the rise
  • Anniversary ambushed
  • Sovereign default looms
  • Katumbi enlists US against Kabila
  • Avengers assemble
  • Biya's time added on
  • Sahel on the Rhine
  • Clamping down on Katumbi
  • Power without responsibility
  • Counties at the crossroads
  • Sable's rich seam of bribes
  • Perils of the pipeline
  • Secret security debts devastate economy
  • Papa's posthumous politics
  • US comes to struggling Amisom's aid
  • Missing men mar Déby’s win
  • Railroading senators
  • Third premier lucky
  • Kidal's tense calm
  • ANC cries 'mayday'
  • A charter for trouble
  • Parties to many disputes 
  • Raiders hit Gambella
  • All change in Praia
  • Morgan goes it alone
  • Democrats under fire
  • Big sister's olive branch
  • Who's killing who?
  • Fast one
  • A barbouze returns 
  • Sanctions steam
  • Dividing Africa
  • Viva Bafana Bafana
  • Shrinking horizons
  • Aydeed again
  • Kérékou tries a comeback
  • Keeping what peace?
  • IMF cut-off follows secret debt shock
  • Guptas fly out
  • Guelleh opts for landslide
  • Post-election gunfire
  • Party pooper
  • Union at all costs
  • Economy thwarts Buhari
  • Rabat's Cold War manoeuvre
  • Zuma's many foes mobilise
  • Desperately seeking dollars
  • Kabila delays, Katumbi hovers
  • Ponyo plays banker
  • Africa probes the Panama connection
  • A last blast for sanctions
  • Justice in question
  • Shein's tarnished win
  • POW row heals
  • Issoufou woos
  • General's quarters
  • Darfur votes under fire
  • Little rain on Bongo's parade
  • The shoo-in is booed off
  • What price recovery?
  • Sassou makes it modest
  • Dollar curbs anger bigwigs
  • Night of the generals
  • Old problems for Sisi’s new faces
  • Reshuffle and a long goodbye
  • Clearing decks and debts
  • Stop-go Simandou
  • Grand Comore's turn
  • The meaning of 'aid'
  • Cleared by cash
  • Terror on the beach
  • Nyusi's resolve in doubt
  • Bye-election fever
  • Gordhan and Zuma slug it out
  • Oromia erupts
  • Drawing a line in Libya
  • The power struggle after Hassan el Turabi
  • Ganja grief
  • Coup down under 
  • Island mentality
  • Voice of Babel
  • Unsanctioned
  • Bad luck
  • Museveni's party piece
  • Super-charged Mbeki
  • Mandela's front line
  • Another country, another law
  • Born-again poll
  • British bail-out
  • Low flying
  • More Lon – less Rho
  • Lessons not learned
  • Against the grain
  • Which foreign policy?
  • Eyes right
  • Advocates, advisors and accountants
  • Money and the military
  • Monrovia muggings
  • Funding fall-off
  • Soldiers' schemes
  • Last chance alliance
  • Break for the border
  • Oleaginous
  • Diamonds, dollars and democracy
  • Falling out parade
  • Banker is as banker does
  • Licence to print
  • American in Africa
  • Changing the guard
  • Palace moves
  • Donors defeated
  • Offshore, offside
  • Big Ben Ali strikes
  • When the Pharaoh calls
  • Can't stay, can't go
  • Guptas 'to leave SA'
  • Knock-out in two
  • Ex-ally vs Sassou
  • Guelleh's court shame
  • Lungu schemes to survive
  • Amisom struggles
  • Blaise the Ivorian
  • Death on the beach
  • Cash in a cold climate
  • Back to Ogoniland
  • Trial of strength at the top
  • Spender takes all
  • It’s the contract election
  • A disputed state of the nation
  • Talk in New York, war in the Horn
  • Naked guns
  • Oil on its own
  • Code breaking
  • Edging and hedging
  • General Chameleon
  • Africa and the Vatican
  • The fading Nats
  • Cyril the suit
  • Sacking the Sultan
  • The political poison spreads
  • Gold gain goes
  • Past and present
  • Bucks and trucks
  • No vote, no peace
  • Missing person
  • What happened in Harare?
  • Getting to the people
  • Debts to Déby
  • New leader's old problems
  • Protest grows over Museveni win
  • New danger in the Kivus
  • One country for old men
  • The fight moves south
  • Stuck at the airport
  • Zupta Inc.
  • An arresting event
  • Zinsou stretches his lead
  • The political toll of Ebola
  • ANC heads for the hills
  • The great militant chase
  • Zuma bows to business
  • War for the soul of the state
  • Angel on a pinhead
  • Out of control
  • Mad meat
  • Soldiers hold on
  • Asylum? No, thanks
  • Succession battle
  • Sisters and brothers
  • Safer franc?
  • Shuffling
  • Inside or outside?
  • War in the north
  • Museveni's party
  • Military mumbles
  • Mutineers' mistake
  • Heart of Anglo
  • Army in brief 
  • Condé strikes out on his own
  • The long arm of Al Qaida
  • The Nocal diet
  • Bengal paper tiger
  • Poll delay cheers Kabila
  • Gordhan's short leash
  • Off with his ed
  • Rows in the echo chamber
  • Peace deal stalls again
  • Intervention that never was
  • The logic of naira nationalism
  • Mujuru goes for glory
  • First ladies first
  • How the next election will be won
  • Army in brief 
  • On the border
  • Hands across the water
  • Toes in the water 
  • On the mend
  • The state is sick 
  • Missing godfather
  • Tight fight 
  • It's my party
  • Fat margins
  • King's pawns 
  • Not in charge, yet 
  • Together against Jerry 
  • Too much truth 
  • A return match 
  • Blaming Blaise
  • Frail constitutions
  • The campaign gaol trail
  • Banda on the run
  • Africa tries to keep up
  • Blow to yuan plan
  • A cure that could kill
  • Al Shabaab sees off Da'ish
  • Democracy sans frontières
  • AU force eyes Burundi
  • Pentagon expands in Africa
  • Currency crunch
  • After the 'rising' – now reform and realism
  • Fighting flares in Tete
  • Border butchery
  • Talking Sharia
  • João's trip
  • To Boutros or not
  • My uncle, the President
  • The king speaks out
  • Rabat tries reform
  • Dodging democracy
  • Commonwealth collapse
  • White Zulus
  • Back to the kraal
  • Café assassins
  • Radio controlled
  • Missing Mandela
  • Holy days
  • We split, they split
  • Soldiers for sale
  • Hutu guerrillas
  • Bullet proof
  • Intervention on the agenda
  • Naming of parts
  • Digging deep
  • Sall tries to look strong
  • ADO looks ahead
  • Tough people, weak leader
  • President on probation
  • Issoufou the insouciant
  • Rumblings among the rivals
  • Investment and insecurity
  • 2017 polls cast long shadow
  • An implausible government
  • Division all around
  • Make or break for Nyusi
  • Political earthquakes ahead
  • The survival imperative
  • Strong man, strong growth
  • Power cuts may sway polls
  • Big tests beckon for Buhari
  • New ideas, harder times and a few surprises
  • Buyoya perhaps
  • Dust on the diamonds
  • Biya good boy
  • Pré carré revisted
  • Lungu hangs on
  • 'Greater Addis' anger
  • New SEC rules
  • Edmonds in Ethiopia
  • The Kinshasa shell game
  • Soro has phone trouble
  • Taking down Tompolo
  • Pig-in-a-poke or panacea?
  • EFF's economic roadshow
  • Dissent dogs DA leadership
  • Jacob Zuma's costly week
  • Luanda rewards its own
  • Buthelezi's battlers
  • White power
  • Changing gear slowly
  • Warning from Addis
  • Malay straits
  • Chasse gardée
  • Making a hash of it
  • No man an island
  • The people's land
  • Museveni's new model army
  • The foreign fronts
  • Aydeed's legacy
  • Divided they rise
  • Towards breaking point
  • Police under fire for excesses
  • Cognitive dissonance
  • The Brits are coming
  • Attack targets peace deal
  • Cyril looks to his heartland
  • Pepsi's political partner
  • The return of OPL 245
  • Hage's big tent
  • Base motives
  • Vive la différence
  • Chinese inherit law suit
  • How real the zeal?
  • Nyusi's nightmare
  • Stalemate over Koidu diamonds as economy sinks
  • Miami vice
  • Politically correct
  • Guéi goes
  • Balance of terror
  • The boss is back
  • Lissouba lite
  • Gloomy boom
  • Opening up the ANC
  • Go East, young man
  • Hot pursuits
  • Less funds for guns
  • Man-made floods
  • Military operation
  • No more Nujoma
  • Deft Diouf
  • Sorting out Savimbi
  • An uphill struggle
  • Holding out hope
  • Fight, don't talk
  • Museveni's pipeline dream
  • Unclear for take-off
  • Big bad John
  • Grace plots for power
  • PF scrambles for support
  • Poor turnout in Dakar
  • The figures don’t add up
  • Curses and compliance
  • Issayas looks north
  • Buhari resets the clock
  • Koidu's future in the balance
  • Heave ho
  • Standing (by)
  • Corruption cancer
  • No news, good news
  • Have petrol, will travel
  • Bombs and plots
  • Four-wheel drive
  • Follow the Guide
  • For sale
  • Troubled Times
  • Arming for trouble
  • Cashiered
  • Aggiornamento
  • Against the odds
  • Chilling Chiluba
  • Hussein is not Aydeed
  • Abacha's agbada
  • Privatising politics
  • Dlamini-Zuma bandwagon speeds up
  • Private guns
  • Capital calls
  • No vote for UNIP
  • Rebel revival
  • Election enterprise
  • Close call
  • The balance of forces
  • Zaïre starts to crack
  • The details left out of the deal
  • The who and the how of the presidency
  • The cauldron boils again
  • Ouattara walks it
  • Zuma man hangs on at SABC
  • The oil and the spoils
  • Donors stop donating
  • Katumbi treads a fine line
  • Guelleh battles in court
  • Isábel's auntie
  • Minority report
  • Capital flight
  • Turabi sans papiers
  • Zanzibar faces poll re-run
  • Condé consolidates as opposition regroups
  • Condé's surprising knockout
  • Richer military, fewer voters
  • Uhuru bans bad bills
  • Dialogue of empty chairs
  • New maps, no peace
  • CCM faces close vote
  • Wing and a prayer economics
  • ANC looks in the mirror
  • Uhuru's frequent flyer card
  • Hunger strike stirs dissent
  • How Dhlakama and the peace talks were ambushed
  • In the palace
  • Prize and prejudice
  • Kinshasa questions
  • Shooting in the mansion
  • Escapades
  • Surviving and thriving
  • Francophone friends
  • Arms against a sea of troubles
  • Sankoh signs up
  • Africa's loss
  • The real thing
  • Moi-butu
  • No confidence
  • Echoes of Zaïre
  • Dissonant voices
  • The missing coltan princess
  • Red sea rivals
  • Condé's shadowy foes
  • Term after term
  • Amisom loses friends
  • Rise of the third termers
  • Piling on the goals
  • The General's last days
  • IBK ploughs into trouble
  • EU ups security demands
  • At last a cabinet, and now for the policies
  • A hard homecoming
  • Return match
  • What's left of the left?
  • Strikes and successions
  • Blood returns to Bangui
  • Another free pass for Khartoum
  • Luanda seeks Eurobond lifeline
  • High Court awaits Guelleh
  • No go for Greens
  • EU in denial
  • Tongue-tied BBC
  • End of ZANU-PF economics
  • Opposition blues
  • Court rescues Koroma
  • Frank’s fickle fortunes
  • Battle for the bureaucrats
  • Trembles at the top
  • The people take on the putschists
  • Hope Springs
  • Costly deals
  • In suspense
  • Nuts to the Bank
  • Voting amid terror
  • Mining for trouble
  • Low key in Ouaga
  • Border brothers
  • On the road
  • GATIA digs in
  • Amisom on defensive
  • Miner wobbles
  • Timis under scrutiny
  • The party rebrands for the polls
  • The old demons return
  • First laws, then parliament
  • Bad timing
  • Warming up the Kenyatta-Museveni axis
  • Small fish chase big fish
  • A vote too far
  • In league with Zuma
  • A helping hand from the Washington twins
  • Opposition watches and waits
  • Dash for gas cash
  • ICC aims at Kenya
  • Hage heads off land protests
  • 'Lowassa fever' catching
  • Swiss probe in Conakry
  • Hardliners to the fore
  • Spyware and the state
  • The 'Grace plot' thickens
  • Ellen calls the shots
  • Launch of a bandwagon
  • The woman most likely…
  • Concessions and complications in the IGAD deal
  • Regional rivalries surface among peace-makers
  • The latest last-minute deal
  • Where did all the money go?
  • The opposition fall out
  • Rawlings does it
  • Passing and wielding the baton
  • Politicians undermine new peace deal
  • In remembrance of Stephen Ellis
  • Stephen Ellis, 1953-2015
  • Mote and beemer
  • No offence, honestly
  • Left and right on the Rand
  • Obituary: Stephen Ellis, 1953-2015
  • Public sectarians
  • Cracks in the ANC monolith
  • Kabila clouts Katumbi
  • How to be popular
  • Bouquets and brickbats
  • The Sampil truth
  • Whose line is it anyway?
  • Fighting graft, Buhari-style
  • UK probes Soma’s local ties
  • From East to East
  • Attack prompts security reshuffle
  • Guards old and new
  • Impeaching and impeding
  • Seeing red on Zuma
  • Fifteen on file
  • Goalfest in Addis
  • Sall and the separatists
  • Ruling and unruly parties
  • Hack exposes state spies
  • Condé pushes for new mine
  • Unfinished constitutional business
  • CCM springs surprise
  • The franchise war between Al Qaida and Da’ish
  • Southern discomfort
  • Coming to America – the sequel
  • An offering to Obama
  • The clock ticks faster
  • UN: 'unfair, unfree'
  • War mars independence day
  • The soldiers return
  • Too many cooks spoil the books
  • No end to Banda’s odyssey
  • Why the peacekeepers stay in Darfur
  • Shabaab's surge
  • A federal farrago
  • Attacks bring 'state of war'
  • The ones that got away
  • The fishing deal got fishier
  • Ivanhoe rides into the elections
  • Facing sanctions
  • Save the children
  • A nation in waiting
  • An accidental arrest
  • Petrol projects trouble
  • Do as I say, not as I do
  • Nkurunziza ploughs on
  • 'Lack of focus' on Ebola
  • The discord lingers on
  • The men Issayas depends on
  • Let my people stay
  • Risks of a hasty exit
  • A peace deal, against all odds
  • Fugitive flees as courts sidelined
  • Drawing the battle lines
  • Talking longer term
  • Win big, win all
  • Hair shirts of the Atlantic
  • Money worries
  • CNC: who is who?
  • The election gets messier
  • Prosecuting the prosecutor
  • How far to push Guebuza
  • Impeaching number one
  • Desert war, Bamako rumbles
  • Cash for power and transport
  • Bank finances face big new demands
  • A double first for Nigeria
  • Reconciliation for beginners
  • Military balance
  • Cash for loot
  • Massacre? Moi?
  • Students of separatism
  • Ethics question for Obama
  • Uneasy lies Zuma’s head
  • Crashing car barriers
  • Taxing tensions
  • Bye-bye unity
  • The President digs in
  • Polls poser for politicians
  • Delta, dollars and Downing Street
  • Buhari sets out his agenda
  • Crime still pays
  • Part of the union
  • Sam Pa's pals in Asmara
  • Road to oblivion
  • MNLA on the back foot
  • Maimane wins leadership
  • The runaway gravy train
  • Revenge culture
  • Sufism’s soft power
  • Outward bound
  • Forgiveness, its own reward
  • Winning battles, losing wars
  • The military moves against Nkurunziza's third-term bid
  • Grandstanding Guelleh
  • The other crisis
  • LNG plant held up
  • The code breakers
  • BRICS on the rocks
  • Frelimo’s hit parade
  • Illegal gold exports
  • Roots of a governor
  • The best man not standing
  • Pierre nears the precipice
  • The President’s new clothes
  • Enhancing elections
  • EU adopts 'weak' code
  • Shame about the list
  • APC to lead with a leaner team
  • Rising hopes, falling revenues
  • So far, so bad
  • A no vote election
  • Coup plotters sentenced
  • Passport to penury
  • Kampala murder mystery
  • Biya’s emerging dream
  • Poison plots and power games
  • New beginnings
  • Troubled road to liberalism
  • Garissa security shambles
  • INEC and high-tech
  • Mending fences
  • 'No condition is permanent'
  • Nyusi finds the cupboard bare
  • Cold war at Eskom
  • A farewell to Armando
  • Grand union on show
  • Karim's presidential appeal
  • Game of provinces
  • Bye any means
  • Positive deterrence
  • Fresh doubts over polls
  • Easy on the landslide
  • Mining companies get their way
  • Lungu returns the favours
  • Jammeh cracks the whip
  • Spending for victory
  • The rigging in Rivers
  • A moment of truth for the General
  • One-way ticket
  • Votes, damned lies and opinion polls
  • Geingob goes for continuity
  • Kaberuka moves on
  • Koroma lashes out
  • 'Gbagbo or nothing'
  • Muzito's Waterloo
  • Diamonds’ best friend
  • Blurred lines and child soldiers
  • To publish or be damned
  • BEE worsens mining outlook
  • Sinai militants rebrand
  • A new flag in North Africa
  • State’s oil role under fire
  • Presiding without policy
  • Lake murder mystery
  • No room at the top
  • Concern for King and court
  • Ins and outs of the oil companies
  • Move closer
  • Justine Greening
  • Dai Zhikang
  • Astan Coulibaly
  • Mamphela Ramphele
  • Football fever
  • Africa is our future
  • Construction boom ahead
  • Unacceptable demands
  • A trillion-dollar promise
  • Mixed messages
  • Talks on illegal timber
  • KCM on the back foot
  • KCM on the back foot
  • Huawei in corruption probe
  • China Kingho targets multiple projects
  • Trees fall in the forest
  • Essar on hold
  • New plans for Simandou
  • Indian companies top the transparency pops
  • Tsuyoshi Okamoto
  • A new phase of China-Africa cooperation
  • Le Duong Quang
  • Solomon Kerzner
  • Sunil Bharti Mittal
  • Africa gets into the driving seat
  • Dilemmas over power cuts and shortages
  • Chinese partners make mining projects viable
  • Sparklers for Beijing
  • Jean-Baptiste Natama
  • Lasro Simbolon
  • Jan Steenkamp
  • Tress Bucyanayandi
  • Making Djibouti a logistical hub
  • Lamu corridor lags behind
  • Concessions clear the way for Bong Mine
  • Future shocks fund
  • The titanium rush
  • Controversy over contracts
  • Wooing Juba
  • Mega-projects and mega-ghost towns
  • Closing tax loopholes
  • Ex-army officers fast-track power plant
  • Look East again
  • The numbers game
  • Grab first, drop later
  • Security climbs the agenda
  • Beijing will connect your call
  • Bonding over bourses
  • Asian banks spread across the continent
  • Timeline of the ICBC - Standard Bank deals
  • The financial ties that bind
  • Mohd Emir Mavani Abdullah
  • Iqbal Survé
  • Rahul Dhir
  • Pham Binh Minh
  • CNPC suspended
  • Vicente and China Sonangol
  • Clashes but Sime Darby deal goes ahead
  • Intervention for the non-interventionists
  • Deals miss election deadline
  • The attractions of coal and gas
  • Billions for ADO
  • Africa and the great Chinese slowdown
  • Trade levels rise and rise
  • How the big projects fell short
  • Diminishing returns in Beijing
  • Koroma nets $6.5 bn. deal from Kingho
  • Kang Chang-hee
  • Subhanu Saxena
  • Meng Jianzhu
  • Malusi Knowledge Nkanyezi Gigaba
  • Hoàng Bình Quân
  • Han Fang
  • R. V. Kanoria
  • Jullapong Nonsrichai
  • Pipeline and transparency protests
  • Tax troubles but business buoyant
  • Seoul says no to youth export
  • Spotlight on Queensway Group
  • Miners out but no funds in
  • Africa's bidding war
  • Human rights abuses in Katanga
  • Help for the East
  • Chinese contractors’ delight
  • Obiang loves China
  • Li Baodong
  • Hu Huaibang
  • Masagos Zulkifli
  • Armando Guebuza
  • Doors opening
  • Not in our back yard
  • Youth export palaver
  • Pipeline politics
  • Elections and electioneering stall deals
  • Small beer from Beijing
  • Seoul food
  • Angry envoys
  • Dam number three at Inga Falls
  • Too great expectations
  • Agricultural revolution delayed
  • TICAD V: An agenda for business
  • Arthur Mutambara
  • Jin-Yong Cai
  • Salman Khurshid
  • François Hollande
  • Middleman at the gate
  • One-horse race
  • Financing deals finally take off
  • Lu’s broadside at Western policy
  • Sinopec strike
  • Crackdown on illegal miners
  • Kasai mines go to Anhui
  • Teko trio on trial
  • The grass is greener in Beijing
  • Reality replaces Sata’s rhetoric
  • Elias Masilela
  • Toshimitsu Motegi
  • Sanusi Lamido Sanusi
  • Teodoro Obiaiang Nguemama Mbasogo
  • Extractive pains
  • Hanlong misses the Sundance deal deadline
  • Fametal, SOKIMO and Ituri’s gold
  • Workers of China unite – in Africa
  • Experts only rule for work permits
  • Ups and downs in palm oil
  • Missing money
  • The problems with CPI’s Boffa deal
  • Simandou setbacks
  • Triangular relations
  • Criticism mounts but the deals keep coming
  • The BRICS didn’t break out the bank
  • Gao Jianke
  • Prasun Kumar Mukherjee
  • Lee Suk-chae
  • Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
  • Hostile crowd awaits BRICS summiteers
  • Red carpets and yellow cake
  • Gécamines looks for Chinese funds
  • Private companies under the radar
  • Chinese investment reality check
  • Murky glass houses
  • Khama talks tough
  • Compensation for smelter pollution
  • Collum Coal Mine takeover
  • Arab spring prompts soul searching
  • Negotiating African risk
  • Ali Mahmoud Abdul Rasul
  • Arvin Boolell
  • John Kerry
  • Teo Eng Cheong
  • Rotten timber trade
  • Sanusi's message from Davos
  • Trouble on the line
  • South Africa scrambles for Africa
  • Victory for local fishermen
  • Costly deals and close relations
  • Raw deals for Windhoek
  • Learning from the East
  • China cool on intervention
  • China Union angers locals and workers
  • Farmers take on agribusiness
  • Cyril Ramaphosa
  • John Dramani Mahama
  • Park Geun-hye
  • Shinzo Abe
  • Growth in a time of global austerity
  • Going strong
  • Big projects and bottlenecks
  • Abe backs business
  • Chinese companies look for cheaper assets
  • Year of the Snake
  • Anil Sardana
  • Zainab Ibrahim Kuchi
  • Isao Matsumiya
  • Awad Ahmed el Jaz
  • Tokyo’s Africa aid birthday
  • More dam delays
  • China Union under fire in Bong County
  • Tshwane sets agenda for BRICS summit
  • Asian ambassadors offer economic advice
  • Political diamonds
  • Chemical of Africa in Lubumbashi pollution row
  • Mining companies face more scrutiny
  • China Sonangol shows its hand
  • Adapt or die
  • Beijing’s new team starts work
  • Lee Jang-Gyu
  • Rob Davies
  • Bahk Jae-Wan
  • Yu Yong
  • Rosewood scandal hits more Chinese companies
  • Alger, la Chinoise
  • Refinery causes more government headaches
  • Asian builders get close to Inga billions
  • More summits, more funds
  • Calls for protection against Beijing’s exports
  • Call me, maybe
  • Political storm over Chinese gas contracts
  • Bui Thanh Son
  • Noel Naval Tata
  • Pierre Nkurunziza
  • Kim Yong-Hwan
  • At the political coalface
  • Tax treats stay in downturn
  • Going with the flow
  • China Development Bank eyes the Grand Inga
  • Beijing backs Bamako’s army
  • A temporary revolution
  • Textile trouble
  • CIF starts work in Zimbabwe
  • CIF goes private for profit in Guinea
  • The President’s new partners
  • Fuqing crime and punishment
  • Beijing bets on Dos Santos
  • The takeovers will buy votes
  • Kuok Khoon Hong
  • Toshiyuki Kato
  • Zanele Matlala
  • Welshman Ncube
  • Coal hard cash
  • Mixed messages
  • Construction fraud trio go free
  • Trader beware!
  • Getting the oil to flow again
  • Back on the Mainland
  • Rogue rosewood exporters
  • ADO brings back the billions
  • Investment relations
  • Careless communication costs lives
  • Vikramjit Singh Sahney
  • Kim Hwang-sik
  • Jean-Paul Adam
  • Alexander Chikwanda
  • Diamonds give you wings
  • It’s only just begun
  • Contracts and complaints
  • New Delhi’s Development partnerships
  • No retail therapy here
  • Missing the sparklers
  • Condé’s great giveaway
  • To save a treaty
  • Big promises abroad, more worries at home
  • FOCAC V brings billions more
  • Moncef Marzouki
  • Cai Fuchao
  • Mohammed Mursi
  • Stephen Kalonzo Mususyoka
  • A matter of private equity
  • Traders, Ambassadors and Islamists
  • Hang up and call later
  • Miner’s missing millions
  • Union takes government and China to task
  • Bélinga back on the table
  • This land is not your land
  • President Sall’s priorities
  • Parting gifts
  • Partnerships, promises and failures
  • South Africa looks east
  • Pratibha Devisingh Patil
  • Le Luong Minh
  • Given Lubinda
  • Kuniko Ozaki
  • Undiplomatic diplomats
  • Full steam ahead on the Marrakech Express
  • Asian workers strike in Kwanza Sul
  • A golden entrance
  • Previewing FOCAC V
  • Zoning in and zoning out
  • Phantom economic zones
  • Wildcats in the wild east
  • Sassou draws in Beijing
  • Hui Liangyu
  • Amarendra Khatua
  • Akihiko Tanaka
  • Macky Sall
  • Ma’s labours lost
  • Coal is hot
  • NDC hopes for Beijing election bonanza
  • Steel while the iron is hot
  • South Bank challenge to IMF and World Bank
  • Redback takes on greenback
  • Threats to Lamu lifeline
  • Eight billion dollars, a mike and no peace
  • Beijing faces both ways
  • Vilasrao Deshmukh
  • Masami Iijima
  • Zainul Abidin Rasheed
  • Saad-Eddine Al Othmani
  • Air Tanzania soars no more
  • Pressure at the pumps
  • Competition for clusters
  • Ma goes to Africa
  • China studying Africa
  • Africa studying China
  • Think-tanks and policy-makers
  • The three billion dollar question
  • Wary of pipeline politics
  • Condé wants quick results
  • Sun Yusheng
  • M.D. Mallya
  • Wang Shenyang
  • Desmond Tutu
  • Boardroom row over Tokyo’s oil grant
  • Containers of corruption
  • The railway’s coming
  • Cementing ambitions
  • Chinese traders set up shop
  • Too much competition
  • Trading places
  • New pressure on Beijing
  • Beijing resets its Africa policy amid economic success
  • Winners and losers in the contract rush
  • Lusaka welcomes Asia, again
  • Mohammed Saad al Katatni
  • Bingu wa Mutharika
  • Nalinee 'Joy' Taveesin
  • Diamonds are a rough business
  • The emperor's new house
  • Refining relations
  • The big diamond scam
  • Gécamines strikes again
  • Experts rate foreign aid
  • Capitalists and communists
  • Home, sweet Chinese home
  • Illegal loggers taken to task
  • China loses Bélinga
  • Oil flows eastward
  • Workers safe but oil at risk
  • Fatou Bensouda
  • Richard Sezibera
  • Cyrus Mistry
  • Pa’gan Amum Okiech
  • Business doors open wide
  • The diplomatic truce goes on
  • Recognition mission
  • Aggressive passivity
  • India’s new frontier
  • How the IMF helps Chinese companies
  • The year of the dragon, again
  • Alain Akouala Atipault
  • Tsukasa Kawada
  • Madhusudan Ganapathi
  • Moussa Dosso
  • Plant a seed
  • It’s energy that counts
  • Housing scheme crumbles
  • Essar takes control of Zisco
  • Kaunda settles Sata's differences with Beijing
  • Alarm over security deal
  • China and India join aid cooperation
  • USA shapes Asia plans
  • Pipeline problems
  • Longing for Lamu
  • A special relationship in the making
  • Beijing’s gas loan tests IMF
  • Gwede Mantashe
  • Mahendra Siregar
  • Wylbur Simuusa
  • Recep Tayyip Erdogan
  • Indian mining houses struggle for contracts
  • The unions turn up the pressure
  • National interests and hard cash
  • IMF worried about Chinese loans again
  • Frozen funds
  • Diverse diplomats
  • Maputo’s pan-Asian business plan
  • Protection makes a racket
  • Harare in the sky with diamonds
  • Underground and under threat
  • Wild cats and King Cobra
  • Alpha Condé
  • Jyotiraditya Scindia
  • Yoshihiko Noda
  • Mustafa Abdel Jalil
  • Water and copper under the bridge
  • China Sonangol is open for business
  • Dalai Lama dumped again
  • Rebuilding relations
  • Faith, Grace and intervention
  • The wages of Xin
  • Animated investors in the diamond mines
  • Diamond dealers
  • Insider trading
  • Ties will remain strong, says Sata
  • Koichiro Gemba
  • Lu Xingyu
  • Patrice Motsepe
  • Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi
  • Harbour of resentment
  • Timber company cuts corners
  • Fire sale
  • STX's house is falling down
  • Zisco deal still kicking
  • Vanishing truckers
  • To Berbera and beyond
  • Pulling away CIF’s welcome mat
  • Betting on Boffa
  • The revolution will be financed
  • Nhial Deng Nhial
  • Doan Xuan Hung
  • Margaret Chan
  • B. Prasada Rao
  • Ready, able and unlikely
  • A friend in need
  • Towering trade
  • Highway to development
  • Get in line
  • Build a better arms regime
  • Arms trade treaty timetable
  • Raids and rivalries
  • Uganda to miss digital deadline
  • Not so fast, Frank
  • You can pick your friends
  • Smart partnerships
  • The Bulldozer arrives
  • Shifting foundation
  • Squatters, pipes and rails
  • Slow movers
  • Trucking trials
  • Polish to a shine
  • Progress noted
  • Castles made of sand
  • Sumio Kusaka
  • Hillary Rodham Clinton
  • Nkosinathi Mthethwa
  • Sellapan Ramanathan
  • Karen Agustiawan
  • Park Kwang-kee
  • Madické Niang
  • Manmohan Singh: A reforming economist
  • Spinning and sowing
  • Doors open, doors close
  • Aurora’s gold mine collapses
  • Strategic depth charge
  • Leading lights
  • Contracts galore but no delivery
  • Bélinga bonus, uncertainty for CMEC
  • The charge for Africa
  • Juba promises continuity for Asian investors
  • Sanjay Kirloskar
  • Maite Nkoana-Mashabane
  • Li Changchun
  • Manuel Vicente
  • Trucks, triads and subs
  • Making room for friends
  • Big plans, small city-state
  • Chasing China
  • Give without counting
  • From Dakar to Durban
  • China Sonangol still hungry
  • Shine on you crazy diamond
  • Riding the rails
  • Wang Tianpu
  • Tarah Shaanika
  • Kim Sung-hwan
  • Odein Ajumogobia
  • Building relationships
  • Old debts and new deals
  • One law for Zambians, another for Chinese
  • What the doctor ordered
  • Station to station
  • Pitchers required
  • Aftershocks
  • Sino-Zimbabwe in the Marange diamond fields
  • Trading partners
  • Liu Zhiming
  • Salva Kiir Mayardit
  • Franky Oesman Widjaja
  • Jen-Chih 'Robert' Huang
  • Friends and benefits
  • A new nation
  • Road builders
  • Good neighbours
  • All roads lead to Beijing
  • Surveying Sicomines
  • Do it by the deadline
  • Campaigns made in China
  • Solid foundations
  • Beijing and Delhi change tack
  • Christina Tan
  • Takeaki Matsumoto
  • Chung Joon-yang
  • Mthuli Ncube
  • What’s mine is mine
  • The island scandal calls home
  • Opening the tent
  • It’s mine
  • The Great Dyke anomaly
  • Platinum-bottomed deals
  • Who can you call?
  • Can’t pay, won’t pay
  • Minding the mines
  • Andry's Asian alliances under fire
  • Election funds? Try Hong Kong
  • Sriprakash Jaiswal
  • Park Young-june
  • Seyoum Mesfin
  • Makiko Kikuta
  • South-south support
  • Sowing seeds
  • Building without BRICs
  • Japanese flip-flops
  • The home front
  • ‘An emerging priority’
  • Top in trade and investment
  • Kim Jae-shin
  • Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba
  • Wu Den-yih
  • Xi Jinping
  • Triangular trade
  • India sets the pace
  • Rust never sleeps
  • The Asian aid summit
  • Seoul’s new strategy
  • How to plan the planning
  • The next big plan
  • Digging deeper
  • Beijing’s balancing act
  • Ravi Ruia
  • Andrew Mitchell
  • Vital Kamerhe
  • Wang Min
  • Best laid plans
  • TAZARA troubles
  • Bullets over Darfur
  • Doing the Charamba
  • Chinese trains for TGV
  • Hyperactive relations
  • The price of debt forgiveness
  • Diplomatic wins and aid wobbles
  • Stalemate in Seoul
  • Gong Jianzhong
  • Seiji Maehara
  • Meles Zenawi
  • Ratan N. Tata
  • Win-win turns to win-lose
  • Cooperating with Cohydro
  • Blood diamonds and old soldiers
  • India follows China’s lead
  • Spooks, not railways
  • Building a Chinatown in Catembe
  • Maputo opens its markets
  • China Hyway Group’s mines-for-roads deal
  • More contracts as the vote looms
  • The cost of Ghana’s Asian Alliance
  • A consensual affair
  • Shoot first, negotiate later
  • Liu Yuhe
  • Osamu Fujimura
  • Felix Mutati
  • Chun Seung-hun
  • Downtown crackdown
  • Seoul's modest but steady progress
  • Friends and competitors
  • Aiming high
  • Beijing backs Nairobi over Omer el Beshir
  • China weighs its options
  • In the BRIC of it
  • Relations have never been better
  • Queueing up for Lake Albert's oil
  • Lining up for Jubilee
  • Frank Timis
  • Liu Zhenmin
  • Mswati III
  • Lee Yi Shyan
  • A Mugabe shakedown at the Shanghai Expo
  • Luanda's oil lifeline
  • Beijing offers an iron bailout
  • Vietnam's two-way trade
  • Hanoi's great leap forward
  • Coalition of the controllers
  • Beijing beams its messages
  • Scepticism grows over STX houses
  • Gadaffi guns for Seoul's spy
  • A golden child in Zuma's family
  • Oil - after independence
  • Wang Gang
  • Hamidon Ali
  • Wang Jin-pyng
  • Manoj Kohli
  • Choose your poison
  • Take the diamonds and run
  • Changing sides with profit
  • Beijing gazumps New Delhi
  • A whale's tale
  • Telecom troubles
  • And the winner is...the CIF
  • Fishing for votes
  • CIF sitting pretty in Guinea
  • Balancing act
  • S.M. Krishna
  • Xia Huang
  • Morgan Tsvangirai
  • Chen Bingde
  • Building an improbable railway
  • Get in the game
  • Is what is good for Zijin good for Congo?
  • Out of the starting blocks
  • Private grief, state cash
  • Taxing times
  • Fertile fields for India
  • The highway on trial
  • Beijing in the line of fire
  • Mike Hung
  • Ajai Chowdhry
  • Stan Mudenge
  • Slow to let go of Hitachi
  • Nguyen Minh Triet
  • Beijing digs deeper into Zambian mines
  • The long shadow of dollar diplomacy
  • CIF, Beijing’s stalking horse
  • Building on oil money
  • Beleaguered Bélinga
  • Asian solutions for Africa’s refinery problems
  • Oiling the gears
  • Tweeting Tharoor and the cricket controversy
  • Round-trips and hot money
  • Mahmoud Mohieldin
  • Stephen Shu-hung Shen
  • Lee Myung-bak
  • Jia Qinglin
  • Nuctech’s nobody
  • More ore, more problems
  • More multibillion mining contracts for Kinshasa
  • For Punjabi farmers, an African frontier
  • Wanted: special partners
  • CADF in Africa: Deals from 2009-2010
  • CADF in Africa: Deals from 2007-2008
  • CADF expands Africa network
  • Naruhito
  • Zhu Min
  • Roger Busima Kataala
  • Kofi Annan
  • Monuc moves out
  • Banda bags a billion
  • Victory for the Kinshasa vultures
  • Reshuffling Luanda's Beijing connection
  • How militias control the mines
  • New pressure on China deals
  • Companies and contracts under scrutiny
  • East-West Highway to trouble
  • Evariste Boshab
  • Kim Hyong-o
  • Anil Agarwal
  • Donald Kaberuka
  • China Union’s clouds have iron linings
  • Anti-Asian strength in numbers
  • Beijing's builders are back
  • Tullow takes Lake Albert
  • Asian national minnows
  • Untoward Indian tillers
  • RITES not right
  • Fixing Kinshasa's broken boulevards
  • Kinshasa’s missing millions
  • How to manage expectations
  • Yin Zhuo
  • Li Qiangmin
  • Shin Kak-soo
  • Mohammad Hamid Ansari
  • The year ahead
  • Sitting on the fence
  • Deconstructing Chindia
  • Academics find holes in China's Marshall Plan
  • A year to mend broken promises
  • Stanley Ho
  • Musa Kusa
  • Song Sang-hyun
  • Kasit Piromya
  • World Bank to link Africa and Asia
  • Hurry up, wait and renegotiate
  • All that glitters is mine
  • Grease for the wheels of friendship
  • New men for a new push
  • A useful deal in the Delta
  • It's not over until it's over
  • China's positioning in the Kosmos
  • Mortgages and minerals
  • The Liberian contribution to the stir-fry
  • Beijing's bankroll for Bong's ore
  • Ahmed Aboul Gheit
  • Rajiv Sawhney
  • René N'guettia Kouassi
  • Xu Jinghu
  • The rice run-around
  • An electric strategy
  • Seoul brothers
  • More catalyst than juggernaut
  • FOCAC 2009 brings more promises
  • Chinese promises, made, respected and broken
  • FOCAC meets expectations
  • China Sonangol targets Harare’s gold and oil
  • The junta rewards new friends
  • Zhao Jianping
  • Phung Dinh Thuc
  • Shashi Tharoor
  • Chin-tien (Timothy) Yang
  • Power surge in Addis
  • Cameroon/Asia: New farmers from the East
  • The next great land sale
  • The race to give Museveni what he wants
  • Abuja writes the playbook, Beijing brings the players
  • Graphic: China International Fund's web of public and private backers
  • How the Sino-Angolan alliance works
  • The faces behind the funds
  • Blood and money in the streets
  • Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary
  • Srinath Narasimhan
  • Katsuya Okada
  • Jiang Jiemin
  • An oil barter rescue
  • The great South Korean commercial offensive
  • Nuclear-fuelled relations
  • Financial follow-through
  • Africa slips down the foreign policy agenda
  • The oil revenue row
  • Telecoms domination in three fell swoops
  • The Luanda-Beijing axis targets Guinea
  • Luanda diversifies its portfolio
  • Map: Asian money and African mines
  • Jiang Weiqiang
  • Yasukazu Hamada
  • Sizwe Nxasana
  • Gurjit Singh
  • The rice and the rot
  • Gagner-gagner - they claim
  • KNOC, KNOC, who is there?
  • Beijing debates world's biggest aid fund
  • African officials ignore labour abuses
  • Labouring the point
  • South Africa's arms deals with Asia
  • Wade's monumental error
  • Strategic resources and global rivalries
  • The race for strategic minerals
  • Small corridors of power at Nuctech
  • Beijing in scanner scandal
  • MTN, militants and share claims
  • MTN-Bharti merger
  • Mittal's meltdown
  • China woos the team of rivals
  • Undue diligence in the timber sector
  • End of the line for Durbar
  • Al Qaida may target Chinese in Africa
  • Tokyo's new loans for Africa
  • Michael Chilufya Sata
  • Seiko Hashimoto
  • Dai Bingguo
  • Najib Razak
  • ICBC's toe in African waters
  • Leaky dam builders
  • Billions for all
  • Minerals meltdown
  • As sweet as chocolate
  • Tug of war
  • Wade's skyscraper legacy
  • China's trains, Zimbabwe's tobacco
  • Re-enter the dragon
  • Zhang Ming
  • Musa Hitam
  • Nong Duc Manh
  • R.S. Sharma
  • Kim Yong-nam
  • Yuan Nangsheng
  • Hirofumi Nakasone
  • Thaksin Shinawatra
  • With your permission
  • Friends in the right places
  • Contract confusion
  • Not the promised land
  • Oil, votes and Beijing
  • A shake-out after the crash
  • Washington adjusts to the Chinindia factor
  • Somalia tests maritime solidarity
  • The battle for the Indian Ocean
  • Wu Zexian
  • Pradeep Kumar Chaudhery
  • Nobuhide Minorikawa
  • Pornthiva Nakasai
  • Not learning lessons
  • Where confidence is currency
  • Old King Coal
  • If not trade or aid, then what?
  • Big numbers on Congo's telecoms projects
  • Debt, markets and Beijing
  • Abuja's Asian connections
  • From win-win to lose-lose
  • Deal or no deal
  • The Bong revival
  • This wheel's on fire
  • Ditching the Dalai Lama
  • Yukiya Amano and Abdul Samad Minty
  • Shantayanan Devarajan
  • Alphonsus Chia Chung Mun
  • Victoria Kwakwa
  • Banking on secrecy
  • When Irish eyes are smiling
  • Seoul's safety in numbers
  • A target of the revolution
  • Business is politics
  • A 'challenge and a big stress'
  • Missing the target
  • Diamonds in the rough
  • Bank East
  • The sun also rises
  • T.C. Venkat Subramanian
  • Yukio Takasu
  • Ma Ying-jeou
  • Hu Jintao
  • The new Conakry order
  • Beijing news network
  • Best friends again
  • Iron in the soul
  • Contract shuffles
  • What's yours is mine and...
  • Vultures over Kinshasa
  • Twixt Beijing and the IMF
  • The born-again Bong mines
  • A more perfect union
  • Ghana's votes and China's dams
  • Another new world order
  • Ploughing new fields
  • Delhi defies the downturn
  • State agencies lead the way
  • Good intentions meet reality
  • Africa tests rapprochement
  • Ibrahim Ali Hassan
  • Cho Hwan-eik
  • Chen Deming
  • Muhyiddin Yassin
  • Never mind the yuan, feel the ideology
  • The twins and trade
  • The power of the provinces
  • The waiting list
  • Crumbling cement
  • Tokyo's plans
  • Nkunda's anti-Beijing card
  • Go East, old man
  • Liu Qi
  • Tenzin Gyatso
  • Deepak Kapoor
  • Vu Tien Loc
  • Uwe Wissenbach
  • Kamal Nath
  • Kang Man-soo
  • Wu Bangguo
  • Diplomacy still has dollars for some
  • Washington wants the details
  • Mapping the arms sales
  • New forces in the arms bazaar
  • Seoul search in Africa
  • The honeymoon is over
  • Chen Yuan
  • Jairam Ramesh
  • Motoyoshi Noro
  • Chin Dong-soo
  • Xu Jianguo
  • Wang Yi
  • Shamsudeen Usman
  • Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
  • Nobutake Odano
  • Not working out
  • Ticad Talks
  • A $50 Billion Handshake
  • How Africa could feed itself... And Asia too
  • Two continents, one food crisis
  • Chalo Africa
  • In the Navy
  • The Delhi Durbar
  • Masatu Kitera
  • Tiong Hiew King
  • Akhil Gupta
  • Hu Deping
  • Reviews and renegotiations, again
  • No oil guarantees
  • Contract Cavalcade
  • Who's who in policy and politics
  • Slim differences among the parties
  • The Yokohama summit
  • Francisco Ou
  • Jignesh Shah
  • Ken Costa
  • Family feud
  • Glass Houses
  • Chips off the old block
  • Japan-Africa trade and aid
  • China's African expeditions 2002-2008
  • Probing the Peacekeepers
  • Asia's oil interests in Africa
  • Unravelling the UN investigation
  • Singapore's Africa Team
  • The wealthy autocratic model
  • Civil society tiptoes in
  • The new order
  • Here comes Hokkaido
  • Chi Jianxin
  • Nguyen Tan Dung
  • Purnomo Yusgiantoro
  • Justin Yifu Lin
  • Lee Won-gul
  • Zhai Jun
  • Szechwan samba
  • Lights off
  • The copper clashes
  • K.V. Kamath
  • Firing up the coal
  • All politics is international
  • Hassan Wirajuda
  • Changing horses
  • West Africa looks east
  • The trains don't run on time
  • From Tokyo to Bamako
  • Single-minded politics
  • More policing of the peacekeepers
  • Speedy motors miracle
  • Number crunching
  • Cementing new relations
  • The tough trade talks after Hokkaido
  • Lou Jiwei
  • Competing to finance Africa
  • Suppiah Dhanabalan
  • China's battling banks
  • Developing and insuring prosperity
  • Wired for growth
  • Murli Deora
  • Jean Ping
  • How to spend it
  • Asia’s pills for Africa’s ills
  • The water margin
  • Any more business?
  • Year of the rat
  • India's nuclear family
  • Delhi reaches out
  • Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu
  • Li Jinjun
  • Anand Sharma
  • Ramakrishna Sithanen
  • Blue helmets, red faces
  • Tokyo's test
  • See you in court
  • Flying higher
  • Washington, Beijing or African consensus?
  • In deep water
  • Three is a crowd
  • Constructive competition
  • The Beijing development plan
  • Ren Zhengfei
  • Partha S. Bhattacharyya
  • Choi Young-Jin
  • Supachai Panitchpakdi
  • Playing the odds
  • Tokyo eyes the sparklers
  • Ambitious investments
  • Dollar diplomacy fails
  • More competition for Tokyo
  • Leading horses to water
  • New regime, new policy
  • Investment and jobs
  • China, India and the vote
  • The markets react
  • A softer landing in the East
  • Jiang Jianqing
  • Masahiko Koumura
  • Muhammad Yunus
  • Liu Guijin
  • Zhong Jianhua
  • Li Ruogu
  • Ban Ki-moon
  • Kamalesh Sharma
  • Raman Dhawan
  • Mohamed Hassan Marican
  • Yang Jiechi: Chief Diplomat of the Road
  • Akihiko Furuya
  • Africa's Chinese guests
  • China Eximbank projects in Angola
  • Coming cleanish on the money
  • The new men in place
  • Contractor controversy
  • Reverse thrust
  • Permission to come on board?
  • Pirates of the Red Sea
  • China returns to Africa
  • Seoul's high-tech axis
  • Smaller is beautiful
  • Dam payment
  • Trade: Choosing China
  • Champions of commerce
  • Checking the assets
  • Diamonds are not forever
  • Quiet on the eastern front
  • The great building race
  • Another chance for Asia
  • Beijing, the rebels’ target
  • Bringing it all back home
  • Soft power & the glory
  • Tokyo raises its game
  • Strategic partnerships
  • Charting Africa's Chinese future
  • La grande bouffe
  • Hands across the water
  • Shifting sands
  • With friends like these...
  • The battle for Ndjamena
  • New order, new deals
  • China's Nova Luanda
  • Big oil, high stakes
  • Polls fail to relieve tension
  • Truce trouble
  • Damming evidence
  • A shot at devolution
  • Complicated confiscation
  • The politics of dumsor-dumsor
  • Oil interrupted
  • Museveni gets his refinery
  • To vote, talk or fight
  • A test of everyone’s will
  • A dream deferred
  • Welcome back, General
  • On the waterfront
  • More war, more talks
  • Running for cover
  • The debt dealers
  • Blanchard's beach
  • All fall out
  • Flawed Landslide
  • Old wines, new bottles
  • Keep trekking
  • Mining concessions, traders and investors
  • Business at war
  • Pas si joli
  • Body of evidence
  • No-fly zone for legal eagles
  • The mighty fall
  • After prayers, no miracles
  • The Ebola bonanza
  • Air turns blue
  • Poll date set
  • Obiang’s own goal fest
  • Between street and barracks
  • The friendless mediator
  • Old faces, old problems
  • Massacres in the mist
  • Policing the vote
  • Democracy delayed
  • A rowdy state of the nation
  • Out of Africa, taxes
  • London's security aid
  • Census suspicions
  • Obiang's goals
  • Kabila's conundrum
  • Lots of gunboats, little diplomacy
  • US security and Chinese capital
  • What the prosecutor saw
  • Doubts over banks sell-off
  • A year of decisions after a decade of growth
  • Narrow win stretches nerves
  • Boeing bellyflops
  • Across the river
  • Across the lake
  • Kabila yaka!
  • Nimble in Ndjamena
  • Cabinda to Kinshasa
  • Trouble next door
  • Baby Tiger
  • Marching to Juba
  • The frontlines grow longer
  • The Zaïre effect
  • Baker's new brief
  • Kolimba and critics
  • West African wager
  • No peace, no war
  • Ghankay versus the rest
  • Talking of votes
  • The new order
  • Kabila's long march
  • Going with the flow
  • Democracy deficit
  • Mswati mobilises
  • Second thoughts
  • Trading places
  • Cop out
  • Comrade shareholders
  • Langata landmark
  • A bend in the river
  • Oil fuels Luanda panic
  • ICC murder mystery
  • Elections face new risks
  • Long tunnel, glimmer of light
  • The politics of Ebola
  • More presidential powers
  • You say Morocco
  • New cabinet brooms
  • Plugging the gaps
  • New crisis, new banker
  • Sejusa’s mystery return
  • Hery hangs on
  • Planning puts power first
  • The federation tango
  • Ouattara looks at second term
  • PF set for victory
  • The year of leaving dangerously
  • Watching the dust settle
  • The long goodbye
  • CCM faces apathy
  • Not a popularity contest
  • New faces, old issues
  • Turbulence trending
  • Hell no, he won’t go
  • IBK on the back foot
  • El Sisi consolidates
  • Economy up, security down
  • Special preview edition: Africa in 2015
  • Rape row
  • Treading softly
  • What the ballot papers say
  • Blé Goudé's bad day
  • How guns colonised politics
  • Pick a power source
  • The politics of power
  • Gas regime is getting there
  • Uneasy peace on the border
  • Political storm warning
  • Freetown under fire on Ebola
  • Central bank cracks whip
  • The opposition shows a new political will
  • Malaysian money II
  • Malaysian money I
  • Cape town crisis
  • Small headache
  • Sankoh sticks out
  • Mineclearers incorporated
  • Seeds of death
  • Garang manoeuvres
  • Deep foreground
  • First, the good news
  • Route to the sea
  • The green line
  • Alliances
  • Mangope on trial
  • Unresounding
  • Play it again, Sam
  • Budget stress
  • Hard bargains
  • Oil the wheels
  • It's not over yet
  • The battle for power
  • King size
  • Spiking Syria
  • Outside agents
  • Still at the helm
  • Old Nick's back
  • Press harder
  • Budget block
  • Shuttling to Arabia
  • The countdown begins
  • How the case was won
  • Exit Mujuru, enter Mnangagwa
  • French Fire
  • Biligual diplomacy
  • Shoot on sight
  • The oil front
  • High rollers roll low
  • Tough Tinyefuza
  • Generation game
  • Itahad international
  • The Sodere spirit
  • Booming and bombing
  • Tehran's ambitions
  • Albright's team
  • Digging in
  • Kuala Lumpar can do
  • In the front line again
  • Worlds apart
  • 'No money back' row
  • Attacks claim securocrats
  • Truth and reconciliation
  • Grim down south
  • Banda rejects Cashgate claim
  • The succession war has begun
  • Danger looms as piracy booms
  • The PF picks two candidates
  • Martyr or master-crook
  • Sall clears the decks
  • A tale of two cities
  • Good banks from bad
  • Power scandal rocks ministers
  • Richard Hall
  • The defenestration of Mujuru
  • Oil price down, debts up
  • Policies, what policies?
  • Hard times for the revenue service
  • Peasants against the pacts
  • Bribery trial
  • Slim pickings
  • Queen-maker Scott
  • Kingpin kidnap chaos
  • Shoukry gets stuck in
  • Rules of commercial engagement
  • Loans for oil
  • Diamonds fund rebels
  • Gloom settles on economy
  • Geingob for a shoo-in
  • After the bombing, Jonathan declares
  • Foreign boost for opposition
  • Security leaks and party splits
  • MDC can't exploit ZANU-PF splits
  • Firefighters against an inferno
  • Don't look now
  • Bashing Bongo
  • Nyusi's rocky road
  • Fights before the funeral
  • Splinter injuries
  • Trovoada's return
  • An executive not executing
  • Pressure mounts on Zida
  • Stepping up the fight against Ebola
  • Party strife draws in white businesses
  • The warning from Ouagadougou
  • BDP squeaks back in
  • Coalition time
  • Clash of the Titans
  • Cashgate, gaolgate
  • Next stop, Rome
  • Follow the money
  • Mbabazi on the ropes
  • Comrades in arms deals
  • Doctors at large
  • Frelimo wins, Renamo revives
  • Africa’s growth plans face stronger headwinds
  • Party rivalries grow as Sata ails
  • Crisis returns as talks falter
  • Bad time for an oil boom
  • Fraud claims taint Frelimo win
  • Frelimo braces for impact
  • The world according to Khartoum
  • Finding the funds
  • Khartoum in fact and fiction
  • ENI in the cross-hairs
  • From Russia with love
  • Power struggle
  • Gauteng challenge
  • Drama in court
  • Critical votes and toxic loans
  • DBSA moves centre stage
  • Uranium profits decline
  • Julius Malema in the dock
  • Conflict over conflict minerals
  • Narcotics links tarnish Frelimo
  • Labour movement schism deepens
  • Changing faces
  • The fire this century
  • Security changes mark a sombre anniversary
  • Al Shabaab shake-up
  • Power fraud unravels
  • Calling all investors
  • Saying no to the narco-state
  • Kabila for ever
  • Reshaping the army
  • Never give it up
  • MINUSMA minus one
  • Nuclear secrets
  • Frelimo turns the screws
  • Putting US aid to other uses
  • A bail-out for Beijing's sake
  • Poor prospects ahead
  • A deadline for the deadline
  • Another warning
  • New faces wanted
  • Constitutional disassembly
  • Turbo-charged competition
  • Disagreements over dialogue
  • President versus PM
  • Oil blocks and shocks
  • Dividing the spoils
  • Opposition beams, Khartoum glowers
  • More calls for Nuba talks
  • Electioneering begins
  • Trouble in the neighbourhood
  • Popping the gas balloon
  • Bickering over Boko Haram
  • How terror twists the vote
  • Rescue for bigwig debts
  • Mice at play
  • Reports of his death… the UPDATE
  • ‘Cashgate’ crisis continues
  • Ransom claims dog Biya
  • Sata sacks Kabimba
  • Juju versus Zuma Round 2
  • Capital flight
  • Refinery deal struck
  • Parliaments at sea
  • New ANC Youth League is Zuma's own
  • Allies lose faith
  • Geingob goes for broke
  • Oil, the political lubricant
  • High stakes in the Sinai fight
  • Inching towards peace
  • Kagame's purge
  • Crunch time for the unions
  • Women and children first
  • Biya's answer to Boko Haram
  • Taking a chance on Casamance
  • Brother with a difference
  • Dollars, security and a few surprises
  • The science of summitry
  • The mystery men and the embassy bombings
  • A moral victory
  • 'Too rich to bribe'
  • Sunny side of Washington
  • Demarche in DC
  • Embarrassing Biya
  • Not waving but drifting
  • Politicians as targets
  • Who owns what?
  • Jobs for the boys – and girls
  • Gas, cash and votes
  • The Ebola epidemic
  • Contracts galore in the new order
  • The coal train derails
  • Heading for the hills
  • Coup de Grace
  • Red is the colour
  • Letting a crisis go to waste
  • No laughing matter
  • Honour among presidents
  • Princess Guebuza weds
  • Proxy battles, real war
  • The Jonathan surge
  • After the amnesty, more amnesty
  • Opposition misses tricks
  • Writing development into law
  • Invoking higher powers
  • Seized farms haunt ZANU-PF
  • Islamists strike back
  • Polls beckon as Hollande flies in
  • Put a faction in your tank
  • Peace at risk
  • Mini-Mobutu okay?
  • Frelimo and Renamo strike peace deal
  • Africa policy moves up the agenda
  • Arms-for-platinum deal
  • Who’s Who in French Africa policy
  • Toxic loan fears grow
  • More states less unity
  • Intervention by consent
  • A rally, not a revolt
  • Shame about the politics
  • Regional leaders take charge
  • Banking on big infrastructure
  • Puzzle of FDLR intentions
  • Oslo cuts its losses
  • Ruby wedding
  • Macky the knife
  • Bail for Baba
  • More Gulf cash needed
  • Famine ‘almost a certainty’
  • Baba Jukwa arrest rocks regime
  • The trade-off
  • Sudan's Islamist regime: key dates
  • Political parties and the government
  • Unhappy birthday
  • Sanusi's political throne
  • Ekiti, the shape of things to come
  • The extra Nile
  • The knock-out stage
  • Ould alliance
  • Hangings resume
  • MPs demand answers
  • Kabila defiant on third term
  • The centre moves east
  • Deal to nobble the MDM falters
  • Aid row escalates
  • Sata speculation grows
  • Fighting flares in the Kivus
  • Confused response to terror attacks
  • Unsteady state of the nation
  • Ripples from Kidal
  • Koroma sacks top aide
  • The Caliph's council
  • The lesser weevils
  • Cairo leans on Khartoum
  • Fury over Vedanta
  • Jonathan faces the north
  • Alarm as oil production falls
  • Take the lead if you can
  • Adrift in dangerous waters
  • Mutharika, the sequel
  • Spills – clear as mud
  • Oily bumps in the road
  • Filling in the blanks
  • The Red Sea missile drama
  • Succession scramble
  • Amnesty anomalies
  • Poison politics
  • Chaos theory
  • Poll ends in farce
  • Gertler the farmer
  • Farm plan aims high
  • Trust still dormant
  • Sata health fears grow
  • Enforcers freed
  • Kinshasa challenges Luanda
  • Politics intrudes on the economic successes
  • A loyalist cabinet
  • Turn out for the Field Marshal
  • IBK ducks the blame for Kidal
  • The President looks to his legacy
  • Enter the General
  • Sassou slaps Kabila
  • Richard Ruegg Kershaw
  • The men to follow Ellen
  • The MIGs of Mwanza
  • Only you
  • Stand by your man
  • The ripples of OPL 245
  • Election officials under fire
  • Red flag over Africa
  • Fixing the forces
  • The end of the beginning
  • Everyone loses
  • Mugabe moves on Marange
  • The last liberation election
  • Clash of the dynasties
  • Reversing the rot
  • Parliament wants the President's head
  • Richard Kershaw
  • Trafigura takes over Sakunda
  • Addis plan touches off riots
  • The third eleven enters the contest
  • Calling time on the killing
  • Electrical storm
  • Rio's grand suit
  • My enemy's enemy
  • Dos Santos turns the page
  • Family business under pressure
  • Regime's grip weakens
  • Alarm over terror swoop
  • Ghost workers stalk the payrolls
  • Scramble for the top
  • Politics and Pistorius in the dock
  • Finance smiles on government
  • Joining up security in the Sahel
  • How not to refill a lake
  • Vavi and the unions fall out
  • Militant remembrance
  • Man with a plan
  • Beny fights on
  • Nevers on a Sunday
  • Kagame mourns – and warns
  • Saudi Arabia targets Khartoum
  • Diamond to the rescue
  • Buying while there is blood on the streets
  • TV gold
  • Bid for Sahara rights
  • The civilians may be back
  • El Sisi's spring offensive
  • Terms of abuse
  • Another Diamond raises cash for Harare
  • Keïta's six-month itch
  • Labour intensive
  • Buyoya alone
  • Trumpeting the Horn
  • Fixing the finance
  • Delta wars
  • New fingers on Zaïre's trigger
  • Hanging on
  • Mystery militias
  • Mrema on Marando
  • Guides together
  • Kabila in Kinshasa
  • Hitting the thieves
  • The parties line up
  • Patriot games
  • Regional rebound
  • New arrivals – north and south
  • Gesture politics
  • Hanging on
  • Congo guns
  • Nouveaux venus
  • Unhappy anniversary
  • Technical wizardry
  • Naming names
  • Financial headroom
  • The coup-makers
  • Koroma's coup
  • Face to face
  • Mouldy money
  • Addis and Al Itahad
  • A brigadier calls
  • Biya election
  • Taxing troubles
  • Some partners are more equal than others
  • Kill the drill
  • Dam leak hits Addis
  • Out of reach
  • Securing the rear
  • Tight spot for Blaise
  • Hitch for dam plan
  • Issoufou’s Sahel agenda
  • Chip off the old block
  • There will be blood... and oil
  • Bandas, Bingu and Goldfinger
  • In cash we trust
  • Grace under fire
  • Not Charlie's aunt
  • In between the killers
  • And across the river
  • Paid fighters – and their paymasters
  • Chemicals
  • Academic freedoms
  • Taylor's gaolers
  • Kabila's ghosts
  • Constitutional counter
  • Condé tests Steinmetz
  • Polls at a price
  • Going for broke
  • The general's labyrinth
  • Snakes on a plane
  • Good news
  • Genocide denial
  • Aid argument
  • Deaths foretold
  • Putschists v. putschists
  • Heading south
  • More pay, less graft
  • Après le déluge – quoi?
  • Dialogue in dollars
  • Great Satan joins the fray
  • New Nacfa
  • You didn't hear this
  • Still inside
  • ...and black ops
  • White ops...
  • Changing gear slowly
  • Payback time
  • Museveni's backyard
  • Blood under the bridge
  • Saba saba
  • Free radicals
  • Fishy tale
  • NIF targets Mandela
  • Microsplinters
  • The oil hostage
  • Time's up, again
  • Fighting for top jobs
  • Fela and his heirs
  • 'I'll go home to die'
  • Murder charges
  • Diana
  • Looking for leaders
  • Cross-border crimes
  • Less than economic
  • A sweet tooth
  • Trading arms
  • Market forces
  • Who will follow Blé Goudé to the Hague?
  • Libya links worry Wall Street
  • Clouds over summit
  • Taylor's stitches
  • Oil glistens
  • Torture charge
  • Not so accountable
  • Manpower and muscle
  • Legacy of war
  • 'Corruption where it exists'
  • No sanctions here
  • Washington quandary
  • Kabila takes on the UN
  • No show
  • Ill-gotten gains
  • Death drives
  • French leave
  • Policy rethink
  • Net politics
  • Threatening 'good order'
  • On the cybermap
  • Asian tigers, African lions
  • Security and trade top the Euro-Africa agenda
  • Not at ease
  • Junta versus junta
  • Oromo talks
  • King to move
  • Biya's bad joke
  • A sudden conversion
  • Clearing out
  • A dictator returns
  • On fire
  • Desert caravan
  • Regional circle
  • Democratic drought
  • Winning against Winnie
  • The General's transition
  • Captain Solo speaks
  • Enunciations from Edinburgh
  • Bongo's beanfeast
  • Voting for Driss
  • Pax Nigeriana
  • Cracking Koroma
  • The border war
  • Who is Hunzvi?
  • Forgotten fighters
  • Tarnished
  • Rebranding Abacha
  • Kabila's banker
  • Sofia spree
  • Buying the farm
  • Post-coup purge
  • De Matos makes plans
  • The voting business
  • Franco-phoney war
  • Madeleine's mission
  • Rights and wrongs
  • Dokie's death
  • Africa's role
  • Cairo competes
  • Back to the party
  • Rule by authority
  • After Yar'Adua
  • Doing the business
  • Ecobank's next act
  • The last straw
  • Sanogo case falters
  • Senate for Morocco
  • Testing the offshore limits
  • Talks or treason trials
  • Gas and hot air
  • Huge rise in illegal logging
  • Statoil on the spot
  • The ANC’s top hundred
  • Nkandla report hurts Zuma
  • Unsuccessful successions
  • A year of living precariously
  • Undermined
  • Cairo's round
  • Rotters or plotters?
  • Grassroots
  • 'Next year in Kadugli'
  • Nous pas bouger
  • Close shave
  • Big men, big countries, big hopes
  • Hot chocolate
  • Curbing the press
  • Embarrassing
  • Love from Jakarta
  • Peace pains
  • Targeting Club Med
  • Rules of the game
  • Desert diplomacy
  • Zero tolerance
  • Cautious but determined
  • Plots, lies and videotapes
  • State corruption complicates succession battles
  • Talking Timbuktu
  • No frills
  • Energetic
  • Mountain death
  • Europe's concern
  • Jump or be pushed
  • Rene´ Inc.
  • More than money
  • Wall Street is coming
  • Finding flagbearers
  • More contras
  • Rethink
  • Political plane crash
  • Kabbah's comeback
  • Troubling the waters
  • Tanoh goes as Ecobank cleans house
  • Military muddling
  • The contras return
  • Righting the rigging
  • All change at the Treasury
  • Moi's last lap
  • Lions and elephants
  • Wrong number
  • Freetown fracas
  • Patasse´'s problems
  • Conflict irresolution
  • A diplomatic coup
  • Savimbi's last stand
  • The ANC's front line
  • Mbeki's new machine
  • Talking gas
  • Who's in charge?
  • Carpet crossing
  • A budget for believers
  • Union is strength
  • The untouchables
  • Moses in the wilderness
  • African roadshow rolls
  • Freed-up funds
  • Not Alaafin matter
  • Cross-border
  • Khmercenaries
  • Kicking off
  • Starting small
  • Southern rivals
  • Clinton likes it
  • From the shadows
  • Room at the top
  • Copper-bottomed
  • Bamako sparks
  • Secrets and splits
  • Children of '68
  • Fighting over peace
  • Living dangerously
  • Polling problems
  • New sparring partners
  • Oil slick
  • Long shot
  • Lumpen logic
  • A voting mirage
  • Patriot games
  • The China syndrome
  • Uglier turns
  • Blair-ites in the desert
  • Army arguments
  • Famine strikes
  • Marking time
  • Asking A.T.T.
  • Barometric
  • Short leash
  • Talking drums
  • Oil-rich, and poor
  • Counting allies
  • Peace means war
  • Lines in the sand
  • The Freetown fall-out
  • EU official in probe
  • A sage from Zamfara
  • How to spend it
  • Surprise shake-up
  • Hopes pinned on big push
  • Landmark deal
  • Resuscitating democracy
  • Falling out with the Mugabes
  • Warning shot or loose cannon?
  • Jubilee lays into America, too
  • Violence takes new shapes
  • Shooting in Juba, talking in Addis
  • The political costs of Nkandla
  • Which ANC will win?
  • Intel tale
  • Pain in the neck
  • Murder again
  • Seeking spies
  • Laughter in adversity
  • Hugging the opposition
  • The euro cometh
  • Buckingham's gate
  • Private armies, public relations
  • Murder in the family
  • Cotton reel
  • Mortgaged
  • Masters of war
  • Protection
  • Of Kabbaj and King
  • Brave new bank
  • Keep on rollin'
  • Counting chickens
  • Bienvenue a` Ouaga
  • A cardiac coup
  • More gems
  • Access denied
  • Politics for sale
  • Short changed
  • Pipeline jitters
  • Twilight Zone
  • Mane's men
  • Revolving doors in Abuja
  • Abubakar meets Abiola
  • The new order on parade
  • Mane fights on
  • Stolen votes
  • Mortgaged future
  • Surprise guests
  • The allies fall out
  • Embattled Kabila
  • Standing on the south
  • Long war, quick fix
  • The President who never was
  • IMF insiders
  • Crane blues
  • Arms cargo crash
  • North-west nightmare
  • The China re-connection
  • What crime costs
  • An exit for the militicians
  • Frelimo picks a candidate
  • Restrained budget could be Gordhan’s last
  • Aid and ethics clash
  • Ping's pop at Ali
  • Hunt loses momentum
  • The race opens up
  • 'Torpedo the dam'
  • Kabila wants cash for polls
  • Nkurunziza nobbles opposition
  • Poll systems under scrutiny
  • No way to run a railway
  • Isolation threatens Issoufou
  • Why Uganda refuses to withdraw
  • The battle for Malakal
  • Trophy-hunters after Kikwete
  • Data battles in Abuja
  • Oil theft row escalates
  • The El Sisi enigma
  • Hassan Sheikh loses friends
  • Zuma talks up the state
  • The price of peace
  • Tackling the trade in endangered species
  • Wasting assets
  • Peace process slows down
  • Civil society under threat
  • No end to deadlock
  • Scandals to dominate polls
  • Banda and the jets
  • Blaise wants compromise
  • Condé's house clearance
  • Seats for dissidents
  • Kissing cousins no more
  • Renamo conflict escalates
  • Fears for the new regime
  • The wizard of Accra
  • South Africa’s volunteer force
  • New blood in old bottles
  • Abe in Africa
  • Hery must make his mark
  • Tripling trade
  • Big plans for 2014
  • Danger, road works ahead
  • Gems may unpick European sanctions
  • Donors up in arms
  • A deal under duress
  • Headaches for Benkirane
  • Coup legacy lingers
  • Parties jostle ahead of polls
  • Après moi, moi
  • Long shadow of 2011
  • Mid-term blues
  • Abdel Aziz plays it safe
  • Reform gives way to politics
  • Take me to your leader
  • Full steam ahead
  • Geingob at last
  • The statelets of the nation
  • An early test
  • Making the best of the boom
  • Serval’s birthday evokes mixed emotions
  • Rising up against Compaoré
  • Poll shock alarms ANC
  • Murder in the Michelangelo
  • Risky hunt for a new leader
  • Consolidation is the goal
  • Economy billowing, politics floundering
  • Mines and militias set mood
  • Success needs succession
  • The political stakes on YouTube
  • The state cracks
  • Staking it all on survival
  • Chickens come home to roost
  • The MPLA sticks to its course
  • The politics of health
  • Reconciliation and repression
  • Zuma fights for his job
  • Coup bid raises alarm
  • Goodluck Jonathan loses the numbers game
  • From power struggle to uprising
  • Ruling party conference ignores crisis
  • Cape to Cairo, again
  • Changing the constitution
  • Obrigado Graça
  • Heads up for headquarters
  • Saving Field Marshal Omer
  • The fire in Jonathan's backyard
  • Shoring up regional support
  • Salini looks to expand
  • Secrets of the dam builder
  • More boots on the ground
  • On the brink
  • Presidential letter bombs
  • When the clouds cried
  • Vote on constitution nears
  • Counter-terrorism force under attack
  • The time of Mandela
  • Sall struggles to stay on course
  • Another dam under fire
  • Arms-for-minerals trades exposed
  • Kampala ousts mayor
  • Katti goes for gold
  • Carter’s quiet doubts
  • Luanda cows Lisbon
  • Concern over contract-farming
  • Two divided houses
  • Koroma’s legacy
  • Deficit blues
  • Small earthquake, President slightly hurt
  • Mugabe's farm in sanctions row
  • Frelimo unnerved
  • The Atlantic ports puzzle
  • Political class in turmoil
  • Rocky road to gas economy
  • Alarm over new debts
  • Luanda shouts back at Lisbon
  • MPLA insider faces charges in Brazil
  • Self-inflicted wounds
  • Little leadership and less oil
  • Abductions fuel anxiety
  • Country for old men
  • Vedanta cools row
  • Anambra kicks off the race
  • Economic giants change places
  • Politics versus the budget
  • Struggles with the economy
  • Angry Koroma lashes out at the press
  • Media Bill signals fear of scrutiny
  • ZANU-PF power struggles resume
  • Election outcome still in the balance
  • Khama disappoints on San
  • Biya and the Bishops
  • Lessons from Luanda
  • Ransom? Moi?
  • Feted and berated
  • A dam for all
  • On a wing and a prayer
  • Jonathan’s dialogue plan outflanks rebels
  • Rebels on the ropes
  • Renamo and Frelimo back to the fray
  • Fights over Kabimba wrack the PF
  • Kony keeps up the terror
  • Van Hoogstraten in airline sell-off
  • The mystery ship deal
  • The sanctions card is worn out
  • Glencore and the fuel firms
  • Shooting triggers reshuffle
  • Physician heal thyself
  • No runner for office
  • Flare-up in the north
  • Smart bomb for subsidies
  • 'Pirates' free captains
  • To go or not to go
  • France wades in again
  • African Union challenges the ICC
  • Kenyatta mulls nuclear option
  • Ibori treasure hunt to go on
  • Troubled polls favour Condé
  • Security crises threaten economic success
  • Banda's fortunes turn
  • Shaky Sall seeks solace
  • End of Salvation
  • September uprising
  • Political mould starts to break
  • How the parties will go into 2014
  • Coming to the aid of the party
  • Gulf states to the rescue
  • Neither military nor Mursi
  • The warnings before Westgate
  • Drill-ship in the dock
  • Tender mercies
  • Shockwaves after the shoot-out
  • Ibori's loot at stake
  • 'Failed feudal state'
  • Gems make friends
  • ZANU-PF expands its business empire
  • No princes on the ballot
  • Taylor goes down alone
  • Keïta’s test of words and deeds
  • Oil bids defy security crisis
  • Reshuffle may not help Jonathan's chances
  • Punching out the PDP
  • Boardroom battles hit Ecobank
  • Total loss
  • Eclipse of the son
  • A family divided
  • The unforgiven
  • Regional risks rising
  • Head rolls in bank row
  • Legacy of war
  • A gamble on secession
  • Kabimba loses his footing
  • Boutef's miracle return
  • Millions diverted in 2012
  • Sakunda fuels rumours
  • Museveni on the defensive
  • Mugabe shuffles the pack, again
  • Demos galore
  • New name, same game
  • Yet another front
  • Merry-go-rounds
  • Frelimo may compromise
  • Kivu on the brink
  • Holes in Kabila’s big tent
  • Bah reveals official links
  • Two cheers for the Juba deal
  • KK cuts a dash
  • The waiting game begins
  • Cracks widen in the PDP
  • Economic tests looming
  • Opposition turns to tax and graft
  • The Court lowers the curtain
  • Banda redraws party lines
  • Omer needs friends
  • Sexual congress
  • Frelimo decides 2014
  • IBK's agenda
  • Powers of separation
  • How to grow crops and influence voters
  • Who's backing the new regime?
  • Test for Mugabenomics
  • After the crisis, the crackdown
  • Jammeh tightens the screw
  • The diaspora strikes back
  • Asmara and the Islamists
  • Renamo ramps up the pressure
  • Inside ZANU-PF's electoral coup
  • Rajoelina fends off sanctions with new election law
  • Koroma helps warlord escape trial
  • See, they were out to get me
  • The crucial M-Pesa and call logs
  • Secret suit aims at ICC evidence
  • Fury follows calm elections
  • Couldn’t save it
  • The Dar leader
  • Knowledge is power
  • M23 takes a hit
  • Amaechi takes on Jonathan
  • A power struggle, not a coup
  • Elections judged a success
  • Tilting at the ANC
  • Mission impossible
  • Gono on the spot over oil deals
  • Row over exiles
  • Crisis grows as presidential elections delayed again
  • Shadowy third-term plan for Koroma
  • Dress rehearsal vote
  • Rushing and cheating
  • Zuma's axe falls
  • Bah humbug
  • Youth check Geingob
  • Wobbling and nobbling
  • The vote on trial
  • How the parties judge the judges
  • Wanted: a winner for all
  • 'Piracy' row with Sweden
  • Ready or not, here they come
  • A season in Elecam
  • Leadership in limbo
  • Rebels with many causes
  • The Bodo spill hits companies and politicians
  • The Delta catches fire again
  • The succession question
  • The Brazil effect
  • Digging in on the Lake
  • Diamond votes
  • The agony and the ecstasy
  • Devolution blues
  • Keeping Simandou on track
  • Dodgy dialogue
  • Aweys at bay, Madobe on top
  • Election fever and finance
  • As the oil goes, the gas arrives
  • L’etat, c’est nous
  • The gay elephant
  • Presidential wobbles
  • The governors and the insurgency
  • Inside the presidential fight
  • Madobe consolidates in Kismayo
  • Sheikh Hassan Dahir 'Aweys' breaks with Al Shabaab
  • MNLA cedes Kidal
  • Transparency's clear win
  • Presidential exports
  • Dam good connections
  • The real power politics
  • Ruling by decree
  • Condé takes on Steinmetz
  • The long, long vote count
  • Mugabe wins voting day drama
  • Abdel Aziz's uncertain grip
  • Dam and blast it
  • The Nile in numbers
  • Tullow wins tax tussle
  • Attack dents Niger’s image
  • A bumpy ride to the polls
  • New investors, armed and dangerous
  • Turning the oil taps on and off again
  • Unhappy anniversary
  • A change of register
  • Kagame flames Kikwete
  • Gaffes on the Nile
  • Countdown in Addis
  • After Mali, Niger
  • Justice may have to wait
  • Riches on the yellowcake road
  • Economy thrives, BEE slows
  • The hill Banda must climb
  • CCM circles the wagons
  • The licensing run-around
  • Protests fuel political crisis
  • Timber rackets, gas booms
  • The new battle for the Bank
  • Paying – and fighting – for unity
  • Bringing it all back home
  • Electoral roll on, roll off
  • Reverses in Jonglei
  • Cutting taxmen
  • Lagos leniency
  • Please give strategically
  • Three too many
  • Brotherly love
  • How to read the ‘conspiracy’
  • Déby’s enemies crowd in
  • Gertler’s assets multiply
  • Regions test Hassan Sheikh
  • Dodgy defections
  • How to win friends
  • Enter the Muhoozi generation
  • Talking Tinyefuza
  • An insurgency without the oil
  • Blocking the great reform bill
  • Com-Zone, come all
  • Upper house of cards
  • A June meddling
  • UNITA’s warning
  • Hassan Sheikh at the wheel
  • All at sea over drugs
  • The economic underpinnings
  • Pillars of the regime
  • Keeping up with the Compaorés
  • Not an honorary consul
  • Testimony on Bah
  • Impunity in Freetown
  • EU brings budget support
  • The rush to the vote
  • Spoils for all, please
  • Limits to corruption campaign
  • Essential contact, the Cameron way
  • Diplomatic diversions
  • Law suits unravel
  • Progress but...
  • Kivu talks impasse
  • Pleas to go
  • Patience snaps over IMF
  • Ex-Dauphin in the dock
  • Clean sweep slows down
  • The fight for Mount Simandou
  • Rifts in the regime
  • Tactics but no strategy
  • The Abalone list
  • Debt deal scandal revives
  • Rise of the professionals
  • On live TV, a swarm of lawyers
  • A tough one hundred days
  • Opposition on all fronts
  • Military manoeuvres
  • Faustin's pact
  • Admiral of the white
  • Beny bites back
  • Deferring democracy
  • The Quionga network
  • Frelimo's gold rush
  • Blade's think-tank regiment
  • ANC wields the long knives
  • Toeing the party online
  • Independents in name
  • Boycotts and masks
  • Lords of misrule
  • Training regime
  • The campaign stretches out
  • Beggar your pardon
  • Security worsens
  • Biya's second house
  • Scramble for Nacala
  • ZANU-PF wins the referendum
  • No cash to count on
  • Rifts over lake
  • Lilongwe’s treason trial
  • Don’t be a negative force
  • Rebels everywhere
  • What Juba gets from the oil deal
  • After they open the taps
  • West divided on aid scandal
  • South African troops under fire
  • Séléka takes power
  • ‘With the thoughts of Meles’
  • Succeeding Sata
  • Towards a one-party state
  • Taking the hostage road
  • Tap dancing
  • 'Cruel and inhumane'
  • Stay on, moi?
  • Unhealthy finances
  • M23 may be close to a deal
  • Secrecy mars ballot deal
  • Vote now, pay later
  • Trouble in the hills
  • Groans about growth
  • Shocks and ore bodies
  • Condé’s rainbow fades away
  • A very British coup
  • Credibility of the IEBC under fire
  • The closest of shaves
  • Trust question
  • Piecemeal deal
  • Democracy demos
  • BRICS tug-of-war
  • Splits prolong crisis
  • Why are they waiting?
  • Gordhan's budget balm
  • The left-right clash on economics
  • Guns, jobs and strikes
  • The leaders in Lubumbashi
  • The Mai-Mai and their commanders
  • Militants target Katanga
  • Eko Atlantic arises from the sea bed
  • No visible means of support
  • Girding up for the vote
  • Swing counties hold the key
  • Pitfalls ahead for foreigners
  • Jubilee aims to win it in one
  • Answers needed
  • Daily pressure
  • Swearing deputies
  • Loyalty rewarded
  • The new poor give less
  • Spring in opposition’s step
  • Banda takes on her deputy
  • Jobs on the roads
  • Kabimba looks ahead
  • Qatar's cold shoulder
  • Issayas staggers a little
  • British military aid for Sudan
  • Jihadists from Mali in Darfur
  • By Skype from The Hague
  • Nairobi’s governing passions
  • Rocky road in the north
  • Crisis in the command
  • Maghreb’s early bath
  • Torture in the dock
  • Coup calls
  • Bogged down in Bangui
  • Olympio’s legacy
  • The Puntland problem
  • The recognition blues
  • Salva changes the guard
  • Losing ground at the AU
  • Odinga’s fiasco
  • Flashpoints on the margins
  • Holding their breath
  • I chose the deputy
  • Alghabass ag Intallah changes sides
  • The end of the beginning
  • The power of the south
  • Development vies with conflict resolution in Addis
  • Blé Goudé arrested
  • Secret shipment
  • Funds query for Bangura
  • ZANU-PF's loss
  • French Somalia raid ‘was a trap’
  • Regional alliances shifting
  • Wade’s barons under scrutiny
  • Family bonds
  • Après Biya fears
  • Thawing the assets
  • Not so open for business
  • Purges and placements
  • Ramaphosa’s price
  • With Zuma to Bangui
  • Bozizé back from the brink
  • Abuja’s foreign legion
  • Nouakchott on the spot
  • Taking the fight to the desert
  • Northern parts
  • The longer war
  • Democratic hustle
  • Navigating the rapids
  • Falling foreign support
  • Let them eat fish
  • Omer el Beshir’s New Year’s Party
  • Khartoum in a corner
  • Ailing and failing
  • A race to the bottom
  • A test for the constitutions
  • The economic fightback
  • The party isn’t over yet
  • Django unchained
  • Talk first, fight later
  • Electricity and elections
  • Politics goes to court
  • Early start for Jonathan
  • Harsh truths and high growth
  • Mengi beaned in court
  • Geingob reassures
  • Trovoada sacked
  • Zuma leaves nothing to chance
  • Sadig calls for regime change
  • Unity under strain
  • Wilting jasmine
  • Tax threat to IMF deal
  • A country polarised
  • Ructions over reconquest plan
  • Captain Sanogo strikes back
  • Rift risk over gas laws
  • Shotgun wedding season
  • Soro clouds economic revival
  • The democracy question
  • The Mahama factor
  • Make mine a mine
  • Imports and exports
  • Zuma sweeps the boards
  • The plot thickens
  • ICC tries more with less
  • Floating arsenals in legal fog
  • SWAPO picks a new leader
  • Licence to secede
  • New strains on the Union
  • Egyptians return in search of gold
  • The new gold rush
  • How politicians help insurgents
  • Boko Haram looks to Mali
  • Clouds over Koroma’s victory
  • Why Goma fell
  • Kabila looks into the abyss
  • Expert opinions
  • Sanctions bypass
  • What price the Unity Party
  • Undiplomatic corps
  • ZANU-PF’s gem of a campaign
  • Opacity for all
  • Dodging Dodd-Frank
  • Oil and gas prospects fuel lake row
  • How the branches voted
  • Zuma or else
  • Breaking ranks in Kismayo
  • Hassan Sheikh keeps it in the family
  • Juba runs out of patience
  • No spring in the step
  • Sesay and the city
  • Elections 2012: Koroma in front
  • Contributions gratefully received
  • Elections 2012: Mahama ahead by a hair
  • Bienvenido a Malabo
  • Addis on a caution
  • Was it a coup?
  • Juba jitters
  • Soldiers get ready
  • Not yet spring in Mogadishu
  • Opposition shakes Trovoada
  • Sovereign wonga fund
  • Three men in a boat
  • Uganda accused
  • Shell and the Delta litigations
  • The $100 billion bash
  • Khartoum’s military-industrial complex
  • Target Khartoum
  • Ghannouchi unplugged
  • Abyei arrangement
  • Guebuza’s new man
  • M23’s other parent
  • Changing tribal customs on J Street
  • IMF finance for Mursi's new order
  • Bankers of the world unite
  • Borrowing big
  • A poverty of strategy
  • Fraternal rivalry
  • Faure fading fast
  • Ex-President Banda switches horses
  • Big budget, big promises
  • Winning them over one by one
  • Zuma’s campaign pays off
  • Handling the opposition
  • Aziz’s power game
  • Gbagbo’s Ghana connection
  • Ouattara under threat again
  • Regional confrontation looms
  • Jonglei flashpoint
  • Un-persons
  • La Francophonie
  • No new brooms
  • Takeover at Kismayo
  • Partial win for Guebuza
  • Courting foreign business
  • Campaigning begins
  • First steps to stopping the stealing
  • The grand corruption trap
  • Election tax axed
  • Sam stays on the ticket
  • Mali a l’Amisom
  • Come if you must
  • Miners get bad reviews
  • Financial faultlines
  • Profits derailed
  • Dead preachers poser
  • Morganatic marriages
  • Jammeh’s execution spree
  • Opposition claims dismissed
  • Luanda buys Mayfair trophy
  • Aid threatened, conflict up
  • As Amisom targets Kismayo, Al Shabaab changes tactics
  • New president, new laws and old enemies
  • The rush for land
  • Kilelengwani burns
  • New York showdown
  • Disunited unions
  • Zuma hits back as mining unrest spreads
  • Mombasa murder
  • The Mahama swing
  • Sidelining Blaise
  • Monitoring on hold
  • Looting minerals
  • Plunder unabated
  • The Putin option
  • Not out of the woods
  • Hopes and fears offshore
  • Politics over oil
  • A sickly constitution
  • Shift that coal
  • Glittering prospects
  • Rebels and defections
  • Kabila seeks succour abroad
  • Forex windfall test for banks
  • Four more MPLA years
  • Let them wear cotton
  • The first oil election
  • After a unifying funeral, a divisive election
  • The case against Sam-Sumana
  • President Mursi's soft coup
  • Intervention plan revealed
  • Ethnic arithmetic
  • A rough, tough battle ahead
  • The MPLA plans a landslide
  • The Marikana massacre
  • The other contestants
  • Battle of the unions
  • Mugabe's Maputo success
  • The road home
  • The man in charge, for now
  • Rail to the chief
  • Blaming the outsiders
  • After Meles
  • Clashes at mosques
  • Three million euros in the fountain
  • M23 moves up
  • Former aide lashes Odinga
  • Cross-border pollution
  • Secrets are not forever
  • Threats to Khama fade
  • Sudan under protest
  • The anti-sanctions race
  • August will be hot
  • Souvenir of Matebeleland
  • It’s time for a vote
  • Severely turbulent airline
  • Biya swings the axe
  • Death puts feuds on hold
  • Vice-President in loan row
  • Ivorian justice questioned
  • The officers’ mess
  • Obsequies and summitry
  • Politicking after the mourning
  • From no growth to low growth
  • The missing host
  • Stifling dissent
  • No bang (this time)
  • Sam with a plan
  • The ball is in the court
  • Luanda’s crude power
  • One year on – unrealistic expectations remain unfulfilled
  • Electoral victory roll
  • Bamako drift
  • The jihadists take over
  • M23 makes the running
  • A diplomatic coup in Addis
  • Dlamini-Zuma takes charge
  • Protestors’ pressure mounts
  • Bank to bank
  • Killers united
  • Rocks and hard men
  • Obama’s Congo law
  • Rebels aim for Kivu secession
  • Selected heads roll
  • Bandits at large
  • Jitters as Bozizé dumps ally
  • Foreign sanctions miss target
  • Politics and religion
  • Rajoelina slows down the train
  • Attacking civil society
  • Zuma delays judgement day
  • Turning security upside down
  • Dazzling statistics
  • Fine gesture
  • No horizon
  • Lucrative IIDEA
  • Warlords at work
  • The honeymoon’s over
  • New broom passed over
  • Reforming power
  • Mutembo's targets
  • Sata takes on the judges
  • Justice denied
  • A coarse debut
  • Saitoti’s death leaves a gap
  • End of transition looms
  • Tuareg splits widen
  • US 'protecting' Rwanda
  • Kigali’s hand in the Kivus
  • The Italian job
  • Who's who in the Guinea loan saga
  • A new battle to control the mines
  • Money doubling
  • Lomé out of Lomé
  • Last ditch
  • Questions of succession
  • Pre-millenial tension
  • Another Congo crisis
  • Angola looks east
  • War drums sounding
  • The rich list
  • SWAPO shutdown
  • Islamic state
  • The new Thabo Mbeki
  • NTC puts poll in doubt
  • Soldier against Muslim Brother
  • Pushing the putsch
  • Sanogo ponders compromise
  • Warning to future Taylors
  • Who fights for whom
  • Faultlines in the foundations
  • Mswati’s private party
  • Poll post-mortem shocks
  • Conflicts of interest
  • A born-again state mining company
  • Higher taxes, less nationalisation
  • Entente absente
  • The founder's fury
  • An imported ally
  • Devil of a mess
  • Tuaregs talk government
  • A government of few talents
  • Rwanda looms larger in Kivu
  • Wars of the succession
  • Bouncing the Spring
  • Fuel fraud fans public anger
  • Rockets and meetings
  • Sanctions threat drives talks
  • Muscling out Mugabe
  • Police and thieves
  • The leadership race opens up
  • Unrecognisable
  • More time for the junta
  • No go Sanogo
  • Killing on the quiet
  • Lowassa plans his comeback
  • New financiers, new disputes
  • Keep smiling
  • Israel and the energy crisis
  • Presiding over chaos
  • Return of the RUF
  • Champagne for the candidates
  • Three days in April
  • A long-distance run for Banda
  • Discontent over Wynter
  • Sata’s health and other scares
  • Charity ends at home
  • Running water, vaulting ambition
  • Development over democracy
  • Africa's run at the Bank
  • Half-truths on subsidies
  • Corrupt but open
  • Koroma’s UN fear
  • A question of security
  • Star-struck James Ibori
  • Wanted – the Terminator
  • Return of the narco-state
  • Stakes and taxes
  • Energy bonanza promises real financial independence
  • Police fail public order test
  • The youth rebellion heads east
  • From the Stasi to State House
  • Prophecies and fantasies
  • A political and military test
  • All or nothing
  • Differences sharpen in presidential poll
  • The men who would be Rais
  • Hope of peace for Cabinda
  • The north and south of it
  • Rebel against rebel – against the rest
  • Issoufou under siege
  • Gadaffi Junior's gaffe
  • War drums sound as the South takes Heglig
  • How Mutharika went wrong
  • New leader, new broom
  • Keeping it in the family
  • Kibaki nervous over ICC
  • The LRA is down but not out
  • Opposition poll boycott
  • Turkish aid
  • And a food crisis too
  • Zuma battles Juju
  • UN clash over Beijing bullets claim
  • Taking bribes seriously
  • Ibori goes to Southwark
  • Office politics
  • Habre hangs on
  • Condé looks East and West
  • Militia hides behind civilians
  • Keeping an eye on oil
  • Dying by the sword
  • Sassou for ever
  • Uganda's profits of war
  • Al Shabaab’s waiting game
  • Senegal ousts Wade
  • Rebels and putschists
  • Power to the president
  • Where’s the indigenous cash?
  • Soothing the investors
  • Sata stumbles
  • The people who run the PDP show
  • The President tightens up
  • Friends reunited?
  • Gomes in the lead
  • Euro-Right backs Boers
  • Personal, not business
  • Opposition turns up the heat
  • Empire-building in Addis
  • Getting out of the bush
  • Dead banker tweeting
  • Poisoning the atmosphere
  • Tunisia lobbies for the UMA
  • The neighbours start talking
  • The rise of Tendai Biti
  • Constitutional reform blow
  • Business gets a seat at the table
  • At the top, a three-way split
  • How to buy growth – for $100 billion
  • Khartoum rewrites history
  • Abacha’s ghost and Boko Haram
  • Oil cuts as Delta erupts
  • Diplomatic challenge
  • Timis drills deep
  • Wade poll shock
  • Who's the democrat now?
  • Unity on cash crisis
  • Kwacha devaluation: not if but when
  • Pressure mounts on Mutharika
  • Lusaka restarts the anti-corruption campaign
  • Companies fight regulation
  • The Glencore-Xstrata merger
  • Kabila targets the land
  • John Michuki (1932-2012): A life
  • Kibaki loses his peers
  • Martial music plays in London
  • Board to probe finances
  • Cashing in on chaos
  • All go for Tullow
  • Rebels with a cause
  • Blow to Geingob
  • Ellen's green cred
  • Inquest blue
  • Wade rallies
  • No freedom of the press
  • Gadaffi’s bequest to region
  • MNLA’s deadly mobility
  • Libyan arms fuel Tuareg revolt
  • The Woyome scandal and its casualties
  • Who paid whom for what?
  • Condé takes on the army and opposition
  • The gamble for Simandou
  • Early exit for UN envoy
  • Big projects, money pressures
  • The state of Zuma’s nation
  • The trouble after Katumba
  • No great expectations
  • Unity is for others
  • It's Woyome time
  • No reform yet
  • Fanfares for Africa
  • Jobs for the boys
  • Storm over opposition man
  • A low-key second term
  • Wade digs his heels in
  • The shape of the deadly sect
  • How terror came to Kano
  • Who’s who in mines
  • Oil is the new cocoa
  • From Gadaffi to Qatar
  • Waiting for government
  • The Hague changes the game
  • Who pays the pipeline
  • The South goes for sovereignty
  • Best friends, friends and foes
  • The war goes regional
  • Critics still not welcome
  • Drop the pilot
  • Crash goes the conspiracy
  • Famine fallout
  • Cutting rivalries
  • Maputo shuns US concern
  • Dragons in Eden
  • The man most likely to succeed Pohamba
  • New technology, new repression
  • Electoral chicanery and the UN
  • No confidence vote from companies
  • Opposition steps up fight
  • Mugabe breaks with the region
  • Positions pending
  • Cobalt's compulsory partners
  • Marques takes them on
  • The Accra boosters
  • Sanusi hits out at subsidy racket
  • How the fuel row caught fire
  • The long march speeds up
  • Great expectations
  • Getting the vote right
  • How the economy defies politics
  • Smart money, prickly politics
  • A year of living dangerously
  • Zuma goes for broke
  • One election, two countries
  • Economic jitters as Tshwane looks East
  • Rough roads ahead
  • A race against time
  • A pause in economic progress
  • Votes, mines and money
  • The future is military
  • The war goes regional
  • Downturn hits election agenda
  • A vote on unfinished business
  • Subsidy cuts and crony capitalists
  • What lies beyond Tahrir
  • Critics still not welcome
  • Explore Somaliland
  • Small coup in Quelimane
  • High unit costs
  • Donors challenge Bingu
  • Comrades and compromisers
  • Return of the Chissanoistas
  • N’Dour wades in
  • Economy faces royal crisis
  • The King’s own Islamists
  • Waiting for a breakthrough
  • Brothers unbound
  • Pachyderms in the parlour
  • Timeline of a troubled vote
  • Kabila: from farce to tragedy
  • Opposition picks its champions
  • Inside the security hierarchy
  • ZANU's honey trap
  • Tax deduction
  • The unprosecutables
  • Fraud and violence
  • The Gordhan knot
  • Selling the state
  • Banks strike oil
  • MPLA curbs the media
  • Palace plotters
  • Condé talks to rivals
  • ICC bags Gbagbo first
  • Gbagbo to the Hague, nation to the polls
  • The IMF and the Chinese loan puzzle
  • A pipeline of votes
  • Enemies in the north
  • Presidential poll wide open
  • What’s in Somalia for Ethiopia
  • It rained on their invasion
  • Storm warning
  • Perth pangs
  • Electoral alliances
  • The gloves are off
  • Nigeria and South Africa stand up
  • ‘No monster’ Jammeh heads for victory
  • Implausible denials
  • Doubts about Sata’s zeal arise
  • New challenges after messy elections
  • USA joins fight against LRA
  • Ferry fiasco dents Koroma’s standing
  • Inflammatory subsidy
  • Polls, leaks and expropriations
  • Troubled waters, no oil yet
  • Bargain mine sales draw fire
  • Cyber attack
  • Condé to look at Dahdaleh case
  • Plot device
  • Biya’s last hurrah
  • Storm over SA mercenaries in Libya
  • Political violence worsens
  • Fears grow of poll delay
  • Brinkmanship at the ballot
  • Kenya’s Somali proxies
  • Confused war aims cause alarm
  • They don’t seek him here...
  • The past is another country
  • The succession players
  • Dos Santos calls elections
  • The struggle for the centre
  • Malema and Zuma mass their armies
  • Brothers-in-arms
  • BAE Systems’ fine dilemma
  • Devil take the hindermost
  • Teodorin’s week
  • How Banda got bounced
  • A Scott in office
  • The President starts purging
  • From Delta militias to piracy
  • Oil in troubled waters
  • Military momentum
  • Opposition on the march
  • Coffers empty, power for sale
  • Generals stall the revolution
  • Contenders for the Assembly
  • New rules for a new order
  • Kibaki gambles on regional war with Al Shabaab
  • Manoeuvring in Cairo
  • Yesterday's rebels, today's rebels
  • On the border
  • Opening up Aso Rock
  • Foreign policy aid
  • The loot looted
  • New leaf
  • Those were the days
  • The Security Council lands a new African problem
  • Al Shabaab sets the agenda
  • Uhuru looks back in anger
  • Ministry of power struggles
  • Banking on the move
  • Getting the right numbers
  • Soldiers shooting at dawn
  • Election fails to stir passions
  • Ellen wants first-round win
  • Troubled exit for Banda
  • Good boom, bad timing
  • No EITI for UK
  • By-election business
  • Terrorist listing
  • Recognised but risky
  • Baba Laddé: Robber or Robin Hood?
  • Mastering the militias
  • International concerns
  • Rajoelina agrees a deal
  • General alarm
  • US sources run for cover
  • Too little, too late
  • Are the politicians high?
  • The fight of the century
  • Economy recovers, security wobbles
  • No springtime in Algiers
  • Party postpones post-mortem
  • A rocky electoral road
  • The Gadaffi clan scatters
  • You can take the Africa out of Libya
  • All the President’s businessmen
  • Play the game
  • Making calls on the state
  • Bozizé slows down his takeover
  • Questions facing the new regime
  • Death in Jonglei
  • New South Sudan Ministers
  • Disrespect for the President
  • Bringing peace to the military
  • Gbagbo: France’s part in his downfall
  • Taking a stake in economic development
  • Celso Correia, favourite son
  • Leak now, pay later
  • Vicente to succeed Dos Santos?
  • Lobbying on
  • Strain in ICC case
  • It’s not cricket
  • Changing times
  • Protests postponed
  • Prison politics
  • Pinto da Costa back in office
  • Renamo threatens a return to violence
  • Fonseca’s win tests nerves
  • The nationalisation investigators
  • Suddenly, the nationalisation talk gets serious
  • The police fail to protect
  • The kingmaker general dies at Alamein
  • It's urgent? Set up a committee
  • Who cleans up in the Delta?
  • The hits against Al Shabaab
  • Al Shabaab – neither gone nor forgotten
  • Gadaffi falls, revolution rises
  • Military mayhem
  • Nyachae and the Fund
  • Crisis? What crisis?
  • Favourite four
  • Citizen candidate
  • Mutatis mutandis
  • Running on empty
  • The strange case of the ex-Governors
  • Governors on top and on trial
  • Strange alliances
  • Many more scores to settle
  • 100 days of ADO
  • Zuma's front-line diplomats
  • Foreign policy flip-flops
  • The President lashes out
  • Some Banda backers exit
  • A vote about money
  • Politics and posturing
  • Hard winter in Harare
  • David meets Jacob
  • Presidential guard fall out
  • Don't call us
  • Media makeover
  • The radar scandal is back
  • A Mills bomb for Rawlings
  • Honesty – not the easiest policy
  • Bad fences, bad neighbours
  • From autonomy to sovereignty
  • How the South moves north
  • Maiduguri's terror crisis
  • Unreliable economic barometer
  • Spinning out of control
  • Nairobi needs its fix
  • Succession not reform
  • Oil and reality
  • Checkpoint Nairobi
  • Opposition hits the Embassy
  • Cabinda man arrested
  • Durbar without elephants
  • Veterans with influence
  • Police powers set to expand
  • Zuma and the securocrats
  • How honesty can cost jobs
  • Condé drives a hard bargain
  • Strategic electoral alliances
  • Rebels edge closer to Tripoli
  • Refineries and rivalries
  • Power cuts without responsibility
  • Ministers old and new
  • The usual suspects
  • Abyei in limbo
  • The clock strikes zero
  • To be and not to be
  • Mothballed MiGs
  • Secret exits
  • Military shopping
  • Mbeki's money men
  • Turning the tables
  • Hit and hate
  • Washington's military option
  • Oromo opening
  • Arusha verdicts
  • Off the rails
  • Rebels and revenge
  • Pushing for Praia
  • Brothers at war
  • Holding up the peace
  • Parties at work
  • Tiny's last offer
  • After the rains
  • Ben's bid
  • The next Zeroual
  • In the badlands
  • Militants and monarchs
  • Seriously, though
  • One day, son
  • Reform dilemma
  • Only a miracle
  • Call back
  • Parallel lines
  • Feast ore famine
  • The devil you know
  • The battle to succeed Kikwete
  • The rise of Team Kaberuka
  • Election express
  • Reports of Mugabe’s demise
  • Regional leaders take on the President
  • The trouble with Tobiko
  • Blood and oil
  • Power to the people, profits to the chiefs
  • Boko Haram declares war
  • Counting the cost
  • Khartoum’s debt threat
  • Malema and Zuma for breakfast
  • Ritual killings spark riots
  • Trial by procrastination
  • Fuel crisis endangers regimes
  • Generating power and cash
  • Sata rises in the west
  • Banda brothers on the attack
  • Ocampo tries to protect the evidence
  • Revolts change regional alliances
  • The view and the cash from Arabia
  • Attacks cause new crisis
  • Big cabinet, bigger problems
  • ‘Fear and... fiction from Clooney’
  • Edging towards the brink
  • Trading standards
  • Revised downwards
  • Usman Optimism
  • Political chemistry
  • To a little kingdom
  • Entrenched and overstretched
  • Gunning for prawns
  • Mining and undermining
  • Strings attached
  • Bellingham brings warrants
  • The fastest growing family
  • Blue Nile blues
  • Shaky Guelleh snubs ICC
  • All the way down
  • Prosperity and paranoia
  • Peace in Côte d’Ivoire, relief for Dakar
  • Wade wants to stay on
  • Coal train blues
  • Can the King stop the spring?
  • Where the BEE sucks
  • Cocoa holds the key
  • Long memories in Abyei
  • Fighting for Abyei
  • Election results keep Zuma in contention
  • Cousins call
  • Somersaults
  • Call the lawyers
  • War winnings
  • Moving deadlines
  • Devastating debts
  • My Arabism tired me out
  • Militias and market forces
  • Severed supplies
  • The right's embrace
  • Dinosaur encore
  • Obasanjo encore
  • Turning the tide
  • From the 38th floor
  • Annan and Africa
  • The Lowassa fight back
  • Two leaders, two parties
  • Ethical smelting
  • Glencore connection
  • Old man out
  • Usama’s quiet friends in Khartoum
  • Indicted war criminal fights election
  • Shouting insults
  • Succession discussions
  • Why the Arab Spring worries Luanda
  • Coulibaly: Death of a rebel
  • Stabilisation now, reconciliation later
  • Chaos keeps Gadaffi in the game
  • A revolution in the revolution
  • Not so golden jubilee
  • All for the sake of the party
  • Twin peaks
  • Business front
  • Bongo rebounds
  • Before the storm
  • Who comes next?
  • Facing up to Savimbi
  • The wages of war
  • Misfirings
  • False amnesties
  • Best friends
  • The Pinochet factor
  • Asking the people
  • An election foretold
  • Ending an embargo
  • Politics of prices
  • Déby on top
  • Gosh returns to the shadows
  • Campaign timetable
  • Getting (not too) tough on corruption
  • Taxation without legal representation
  • Opposition works the walk
  • New brooms, old handles
  • Towns at risk for the ANC
  • Local elections threaten the ANC's national grip
  • Sinking the pirates
  • Bluff and bluster
  • Beau Blaise loses it
  • Governors, godfathers and guts
  • Better elections, dangerous politics
  • Fixing finances
  • Taking the democratic out of DRC
  • Uprising put down
  • Hosting Hamas
  • Zuma to the shores of Tripoli
  • Boutef holds back the wave
  • Mutharika cracks down
  • The candidates line up
  • Through the Wikihole
  • Six in the dock
  • George Soros offers some tips
  • Tough questions for Condé
  • A resolution in Abidjan
  • A trap for the juggernaut
  • Congo contradictions
  • President Moi and the dynasty
  • First the provinces, then the presidency
  • Fighting rebels at home and abroad
  • December surprise
  • Rebel terror
  • David and Goliath
  • No nation, new regions
  • Clubbing Beijing
  • School meals and bullets
  • Hello and good-bye
  • Zanu-PF fails to oust Speaker
  • The anti-Asmara campaign
  • One man, one vote
  • Some land lease agreements
  • Mr. Smile and the militias
  • The scramble for the South
  • Who’s who in Zumaland
  • Zuma’s presidential primary
  • Watch the south-west
  • Results that are fit to print
  • In command and control
  • The opposition breaks cover, slowly
  • A family at war
  • Khama country, again
  • Millionaire debtors
  • As bad as it gets
  • The man who would be king
  • Questions on terror
  • Hello North Africa
  • Au revoir, la République
  • The Speaker's chair
  • Council of war, but who's the enemy?
  • The state of the forces
  • Real bullets, phoney coup
  • Europe's new line on Gadaffi
  • Tanzania's gas players
  • Gas finds offer hope of ending power-cuts
  • Taxing problems for Zambia
  • Pushing for probity
  • Defying the democracy wave
  • Ambushing the revolution
  • On to the trial
  • Guns, votes and cocoa
  • Oil state on the record
  • Making history
  • The EU pays but keeps silent
  • The revolution continues
  • The Gupta factor
  • It's all about jobs
  • A port with no ships
  • The King's budget
  • Peering into the abyss
  • Eritrea is not for sale
  • Gold rush
  • So where did the money go?
  • Democracy heads south
  • Power at a price
  • ZANU-PF cries treason
  • Gadaffi's fight to the death
  • Militia massacres
  • Pre-emptive policing
  • No uranium for Tehran
  • Cairo tactics
  • Split the nation
  • Cooking up those raw materials
  • Zumanomics sound better
  • Uneasy lies the head
  • Rearranging the cabinet
  • Obame: no, he can’t
  • A fight for the President’s base
  • Mubarak’s friends sanctioned
  • Dropping the pilot
  • First pick your judge
  • The financial sanctions tighten
  • Democracy standoff
  • Winners of the wave
  • Activists versus authoritarians
  • Bad omens
  • Less bashing for bribers
  • Gamal Mubarak's retreat
  • Bayelsa's fighting chance
  • Ben Ali, biens mal acquis
  • Cocoa ban may hit Gbagbo's war chest
  • Squeezing Gbagbo's budget
  • The political fallout
  • A five-year exit plan
  • Militia attacks on the border
  • Through the looking glass
  • Playing dominoes
  • The major opposition
  • Mubarak stumbles to the exit
  • Summitry in a time of revolution
  • Rewards and realpolitik
  • Telling the story
  • Propaganda war
  • Abine quits RDPC
  • Kabila moves the goalposts
  • The junta gets ready
  • Battle of the bankers
  • Banda on the backfoot
  • Subsidising politics
  • Jonathan’s primary colours
  • Brazil’s natural allies
  • Rumbas in the jungle
  • A family legacy
  • The jasmine and khaki revolution
  • The Abyei crucible
  • The Tunis effect
  • Birth of a nation
  • Africa Confidential Political & Statistical Wallchart 2011
  • Careful what you wear
  • The TFG’s August deadline
  • Kabila again
  • A permanent putsch
  • Johnson Sirleaf stands on her record
  • To Biya or not to Biya
  • Even ZANU can change
  • Getting ready to vote
  • Mubarak and son limited
  • He’s back on top again
  • Freedom – North and South
  • Electric elections
  • Elections on trial
  • Bongo feels the heat
  • Banker for Benin
  • ICC has Kenyan politicians on the run
  • Challenging Banda
  • Careless cables cost lives
  • Diplomacy overheard
  • Amid the chaos, a sort of vote
  • The bombing of Kiir Adem
  • Two presidents, one crisis
  • One farm good, four farms better
  • The wiles of a crocodile, the memory of an elephant
  • Iron constitutions required
  • General John Togo and all his enemies
  • The war against the amnesty
  • New guns on the block
  • Don’t be vague, let’s go to the Hague
  • Ocampo names six suspects
  • Cranswick and Marange
  • Why Nyanda had to go
  • The next revolt
  • Closing the laundries
  • Abyei's protocol problems
  • The thwarted contenders
  • Mubarak's last stand
  • Modesty Blaise
  • Will the UN bail out of Congo?
  • The case against Kabila's army
  • Gadaffi's Jacob and Esau
  • Oil, money and infighting
  • Iranian guns and a king in Banjul
  • Ruto takes on the courts
  • Atiku, Buhari and Ribadu - the great northern hopes
  • All the President's militias
  • Culpable contracts
  • Thank you for smoking
  • Approaching the summit
  • Paternal censorship
  • Bye-bye Mr Speaker
  • Opposition at sea over oil
  • Oil to play for
  • Challenging Madam President
  • Musical chairs in Monrovia
  • Jonathan’s Delta blues
  • Abyei waits
  • Taking on the journalists
  • Mining for votes
  • Holding their breath
  • Old crocodile, younger croc
  • A multi-faceted business
  • Condé’s hard won victory
  • Over the new rainbow
  • And then, there were two
  • Behind the election machinery
  • Party unity trumps national reforms
  • Kagame’s troops return to Congo
  • The boom in Juba and its consequences
  • Jarch Capital has friends in the South
  • Khartoum’s new export trade
  • UN rejects AU blockade plea
  • Trade talk troubles
  • Pushing Europe towards African farms
  • Complex architecture but no deal
  • Down but not out
  • Sanctions fraying fast
  • The bout begins
  • Lying big, often
  • At stake: oil, migrants and gemstones
  • Daylight on Dos Santos
  • Caught in the currency battles
  • As power shifts eastwards, Africa boosts its stake
  • Counting on growth
  • Challenging the CCM
  • Kikwete marshals his troops
  • Northern opposition faces increasing duress
  • Murder again
  • El Baradei’s boycott falters
  • Battle of the plans
  • Coup-makers fall out
  • Everyone wants a vote
  • Ready for change in the Niger Delta
  • Super-Minister Wade
  • A rope for Ruto
  • Oil joy, debt worry
  • The gangs of Port Harcourt
  • Moving statues
  • Kinshasa in court
  • Odds now on Condé
  • The Quito question
  • In search of policy
  • Tobacco lobby meets in Swaziland
  • Tobacco and the forex puzzle
  • Buy now, vote later
  • How Kibaki blocks the ICC
  • Massaging the message
  • The IMF asks the 5 billion euro question
  • The car bomb whodunit
  • The politics takes over again
  • Buttering up Zuma
  • SWAPO suffers bee stings
  • A New York divorce
  • Mixed minerals
  • Election schedule 2010-2013
  • Runners and frontrunners
  • Election delays and doubts
  • A poll that perplexes
  • Niger, Mauritania, Mali: the politics
  • Four and not out
  • Storms in the sand
  • The missing election fund
  • The bonus culture
  • After the council, a reshuffle
  • Postponing the policies
  • A new strategy for Darfur
  • Less debt, more deals
  • Critics, crooks and credibility
  • The field gets more crowded
  • A false start
  • Good man, impossible job
  • Vavi and the unions stake their claim
  • President under pressure
  • A tight election timetable
  • The President is for turning
  • The real cost of Maputo’s aid
  • Ghostly presences
  • Malema loses a friend
  • The UN’s credibility on the line
  • Kigali wins another round of the blame game
  • A suspect at the parade
  • Wetangula – MP for Khartoum North
  • Museveni’s ambitions, American reservations
  • Museveni's foreign policy team
  • Expanding the contracts
  • All to play for
  • The new guard steps up
  • Indigens and expatriates
  • Nuclear-powered brothers
  • The Colonel’s Roman holiday
  • Mounting strikes
  • Turning a corner
  • Otunnu objects
  • Politicians waiting in the wings
  • A dubious election date, again
  • Strong investment, weak prosperity
  • Copper-bottomed but leaky
  • The battle of the Nile
  • The polls close but violence continues
  • Strategy of sabotage
  • No referee for the referenda
  • A government team in the oil battle
  • The politics of no
  • Under no circumstances
  • Dog days in Lilongwe
  • Opposition nuptials
  • Bullfighting
  • Mogadishu's ministry of truth
  • The Afghan effect
  • The numbers are looking up
  • Roaring to go
  • Taking sides in the big debate
  • An uneasy ruling alliance
  • 8 ways to clean up minerals
  • Contract clashes
  • New pressure on the war-minerals link
  • Rumbles in the Rift
  • This time a peaceful vote
  • Abuja takes Halliburton to court
  • Political spills
  • Father Kukah, Professor Jega and the vote
  • Goodluck with the numbers
  • A formidable new party
  • Coups and cocaine
  • Secret talks
  • Khartoum's most wanted
  • Restless spirits
  • What mattered was the football
  • Karim the successor
  • Wade’s one-man band
  • He’s old but he’s running
  • Katanga makes a comeback
  • Secretive Shabaab
  • Fighting on a new front
  • Forgotten promises
  • Zuma’s first-term casualties
  • More gluttony
  • The 3.8 billion dollar question
  • Storm in an oil barrel
  • A taxing compromise
  • First to integrate
  • Crisis on the Nile
  • Realpolitik and resignations
  • Criminal business is big business
  • Mungiki’s new man
  • We’re here to be recognised
  • Minister Thiam covers his bases
  • A second, tougher round
  • How the CFA Franc zone works
  • The falling euro drags down the CFA franc
  • Secret oil deal
  • Odious debts, now less debt
  • Half a century, half the battle
  • The assassin’s hand
  • The opposition on parade
  • The Museveni machine grinds into gear
  • World cup shooting
  • Mine not yours
  • Bankrupt asylum policy
  • In a spin
  • Single party rules again
  • High-stakes election
  • The international agenda
  • Crisis cabinets
  • See you in court in Beirut
  • Obiang’s prize turnip
  • The Kingamyambo Musonoi tailings
  • Ottawa confronts Africa at the G-20 summit
  • Newsdays and the old days
  • Diplomacy by other means
  • Bombing the campaign
  • Yes, No and in between
  • The battle for the basic law
  • Abbey's all clear
  • The men who run the profitable show
  • A disastrous half-century
  • Oily alliances
  • Welcome to London
  • Higher taxes, says the OECD
  • Where the money went
  • Militias of the new age
  • Flash point Southern Kordofan
  • New management for new tasks
  • Bringing in the money
  • The rise of the watermelons
  • Football fever, faction fever
  • Mixed messages
  • More boots on the ground
  • Opposition wipe-out
  • Dangote is a Gooner
  • The fight for cellphones
  • More muddles in the mines
  • An unconvincing egotist
  • Out of Africa and into Asia
  • Dealers on a high
  • Promising contracts
  • Votes and the mining houses
  • Legal limits
  • Squashing the judges
  • Reformers, politicians and generals
  • Into the unknown
  • Anti-corruption chief quits
  • Witnesses under threat
  • Books not bribes
  • Too many cooks
  • Blaming the USA
  • Opposing Issayas
  • A food crisis foretold
  • Diamond disputes
  • The UN packs its bags
  • Elections loom as Kabila comes under fire from all sides
  • Another corruption crisis
  • The Patel alternative
  • Zuma’s economic tightrope
  • The IMF makes up with Luanda
  • Boom-bust all over again
  • Beny’s railway coup
  • A second term for Sirleaf
  • The gung-ho Governor
  • Key points from Copenhagen
  • Bye bye Betty
  • River raid
  • CDC goes offshore
  • Fifty years on, forget the first forty
  • A runaway army
  • Tax and spend
  • The battle around Banda
  • Warming up in Cape Town
  • Worrying the witnesses
  • Out of the dip
  • The deals, the votes and the fraud
  • A good vote in Africa
  • Stolen votes yield a hollow victory for Khartoum
  • The Goodluck cabinet
  • The Malema effect
  • German exile
  • Spiriting away diamonds
  • ALEKE KADONAPHANI BANDA 1939–2010
  • A government in a hurry
  • Looking for a landslide
  • Contractual confusion
  • Contention and contenders
  • Le scandale pétrolier
  • Live by the sword
  • In a league of his own
  • A moral dilemma
  • Election-rigging guide book
  • An election victory that widens the North-South gap
  • Jonathan and the securocrats
  • A united opposition protest
  • The many ways to win the elections
  • The rise and rise of son of Sam
  • Kiplagat's truth
  • Oil spill
  • Easter parade
  • The most complex elections
  • The diamond mine drama
  • A vote about corruption
  • As elections arrive, the opposition shuns Omer
  • A blow against impunity
  • The front line of politics
  • A dangerous compromise
  • Altered image
  • The next oil scramble
  • Sonangol gulps
  • Kabba on trial
  • Death of a Sudanese activist
  • The men at the centre
  • Tarnished triumph
  • Confusion after the coup
  • Military money
  • US military calls up Europe
  • Aid strike in Maputo
  • The north makes its stand
  • Whitehall strengthens Sharif
  • More troops for Mogadishu
  • The President's would-be rivals
  • FPR dissidents break cover
  • The next revolution
  • Reluctantly to the election
  • Hush hush money
  • Truth and Kiplagat
  • Rapprochement and opportunity
  • BAE Systems refunds fraud
  • Uranium battleground
  • Who's who in the Nigerien coup
  • A coup to stop a coup
  • Doubts over Darfur
  • Target Asmara
  • Another temporary fix
  • Kabila's new slim-look cabinet
  • Sassou's reforms on trial
  • Burning passions
  • Oil and optimism
  • Small print, big figures
  • Tightening the welfare belt
  • On her Majesty's Secret Service
  • Yar'Adua goes into extra time
  • Dynastic dynamics
  • Money muddles
  • Quiet trips to DC
  • A welcome for Monsieur Z
  • Protection in the arms bazaar
  • SWAPO's big guns in the fray
  • Maize splits the Grand Coalition
  • The bid to clean up MPLA Inc
  • Dos Santos prepares for power, again
  • Goodluck with the money
  • Acting President Jonathan sets out his plans
  • The junta explains
  • If you sincerely want to be rich
  • Beating up the bankers
  • Petrified Politburos
  • A clash at the border
  • Malema, mines and the youth league
  • The state of Jacob Zuma
  • Warriors and diplomats
  • David Coetzee
  • Third time lucky
  • It's all mine
  • Training the trainers
  • An American agreement
  • Who’s who in Africom
  • More money for the military
  • Three leaders who count in the South
  • Southern leaders compete for a new state
  • The country gets richer, the party gets stronger
  • The President ends his holiday
  • Economic clouds, platinum lining
  • No one writes to the Colonel
  • Is Colonel Massi dead?
  • Soccer shooting
  • Murder mystery solved
  • Who's who in the junta and beyond
  • Democratic moves after the exit of Dadis
  • BRIC building
  • A slow return to growth
  • Who gets the money?
  • Two generals fail to make peace
  • Problems on the home front
  • Sanctions and the unsanctioned
  • The UN looks for the exit
  • The international Islamist
  • The lucky friends
  • The nearly man
  • The great oil battle begins
  • Who is heading for the Hague?
  • Drought and politics
  • Opening time at Osu Castle
  • Elusive shoots of economic recovery
  • A khaki option on the table
  • Three men in a boat
  • Walking right, talking left
  • The elite scrambles for cover
  • Global plaudits, local travails
  • Succession is a family business
  • Generational change
  • Kabila and a sad jubilee
  • Football, contracts and then votes
  • Vote early, vote often
  • The much-postponed polls
  • Dry times for a quick election
  • Dangerous neighbours
  • Toumba on the run
  • The oil obstacles
  • SWAPO's victory challenged
  • Banking on it
  • Tarnished halo
  • Nigeria's succession: the candidates
  • Yar'Adua's cardiac crisis encourages Abuja plotters
  • Rough ride
  • A storm in the fish ponds
  • Operation Atalanta in Pirate Alley
  • A new regional peace effort
  • North and South protest against the NCP election plan
  • Prospering yet parlous
  • Liberation economics, 20 years on
  • Ready or not, here they come
  • The Abacha family's plunder machine
  • Rogues and rackets on trial
  • Progress in Port of Spain
  • Africa dons its Commonwealth cap
  • The other power struggle
  • The Experts win support
  • Ailing president, procrastinating politics
  • The opposition frontrunners
  • Recycled activists, new tactics
  • Many rivers to cross
  • The rebels' disarming ambivalence
  • The East takes on the South
  • Mr Chambas goes to Brussels
  • Faint heart never beat stout lady in the ruling party
  • Didymus Mutasa dithers
  • Football fuss
  • A botched prosecution
  • Drugs and thugs
  • And throw away the key
  • Al Shabaab targets Eritrea
  • Jackie Selebi on trial
  • Mr Moreno-Ocampo goes to Nairobi
  • The rise and rise of ethnic politics
  • From cowboys to corporates
  • President Koroma pledges 'We no go tire'
  • The smugglers make their fortunes
  • UN investigators challenge Khartoum
  • The race for second place
  • In favour and out of cash
  • China's new bid for Nigerian oil
  • Big oil and small print
  • The biggest reform of all
  • Khama control
  • 'Too many enemies'
  • Good judge, bad judge
  • Party time for the first family
  • Brand new MDM will challenge Frelimo
  • A dominant party – not a one-party state
  • Experts argue about Africa's prospects
  • Throwing out the neighbours
  • Blood on the stones
  • Jammeh says what he thinks
  • To catch a thief
  • Soldiers out of their depth
  • New faces in the justice system
  • A killing in Kakata
  • Abuja buys a Delta amnesty
  • After his release, Simon Mann seeks revenge and a book deal
  • Seeking power
  • Costly payment delays
  • Turkana hunger
  • Zuma's faith
  • Jolly Roger justice
  • France and the Fund apply pressure
  • Brazzaville counts on France and the IMF
  • It's the economy, probably
  • Khama's expected triumph
  • A year after the crash
  • Britain and bribes in Ghana
  • Washington unveils its new policy as tension rises throughout Sudan
  • The great World Bank capital chase
  • Corruption claims and rows tarnish Accra's record
  • Matebeleland fallout
  • Tsvangirai's walkout puts Mugabe on the backfoot
  • In and out
  • Conditional love
  • Old hat, new hat
  • Bankable Assets
  • Opposition in search of unity
  • Gunning down democracy
  • Leaving the door open
  • Family planning un-gagged
  • Africa joins the billion club
  • A family business
  • A renewed army, an old-style police
  • More power for Freetown
  • Congo-Kinshasa's big five mines
  • Dam intrigues
  • Mines, dollars and dams
  • A twist in the Thales
  • American airlift
  • Hybrid justice
  • Women at war
  • Leaders in waiting
  • A King takes on the President
  • Washington lobbyists stake claim
  • Which vulture flies?
  • Who's Who
  • Britain's demanding ally in Tripoli
  • A new diplomatic deal after four decades in power
  • Bondo welcomes Kibaki
  • The row over Aaron Ringera
  • A business and strategic foray
  • Why the banks stay optimistic
  • In this week's issue...
  • Glass houses
  • Election gloves off
  • Trafigura and the toxic waste
  • Sodom and tomorrow
  • The vote and the money
  • Nkurunziza's formula for victory
  • Food crisis
  • Dangers and dilemmas in the Horn of Africa
  • The flag follows the trade
  • Remaking an old relationship
  • After the bank purge, back to the politics
  • Khartoum and Beijing disagree
  • Khartoum pressures Southern Sudan over oil
  • Trafigura in court
  • Let my people go
  • Sweet freedom
  • Haunting Museveni
  • The commissioners of the TJRC
  • Mixed messages and sanction threats
  • Who (if anybody) will try the killers?
  • Suing the messenger
  • So far, so Zuma
  • An American road to Khartoum
  • A return ticket for security chief Salah Gosh
  • Shiri salutes, sort of
  • After Msika - a new pecking order
  • Greed, gold and grit
  • A new economic team emerges
  • Theatre, peace and votes in the Delta
  • After the boom, a purge
  • Washington backs the TFG
  • Parliamentary prosecutions
  • Vicente's Portuguese links
  • A general in waiting
  • After Bongo, more Bongo
  • Namibia's China disappearing act
  • Behind the sidelining of General Martin Shalli
  • The hard road to truth, justice and reconciliation
  • A stolen election, then a coalition
  • A 'government of national impunity'
  • The poorest protest
  • Township protestors take on the ANC government
  • Inside Boko Haram
  • Islamists raise the stakes as they take on Yar'Adua
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  • Kofi Annan puts politicians on the spot over poll violence
  • Kenyan politicians face new deadline
  • The CIPEV's recommendations
  • Amnesty not honesty
  • Fifteen years of one-man rule
  • Charles Taylor gets his day in Court
  • Ellen Johnson Sirleaf - the sequel
  • International justice and its pitfalls
  • Eastern foes at war again
  • A multinational road to army reform
  • Aziz's strong-arm vote
  • Coalition chaos
  • Abyei arbitrage
  • No reconciliation, little truth
  • No free speech here
  • Go on, negotiate
  • Competition for Niger's uranium
  • President Tandja goes for a third term
  • Anglo American's CEO fights back
  • Anglo American seeks fresh capital
  • The missing suspects
  • The quest for justice after the genocide continues
  • Sonangol goes international
  • Half-time for Yar'Adua
  • Ghana's DC dividend
  • Obama's akwaaba moment
  • Washington's Africa team takes shape
  • Barack Obama launches his agenda in Ghana
  • No funeral for Françafrique
  • Poungui disqualified
  • Hide and seek
  • On top and in charge
  • Camara's reality television
  • The coup-making government lives on
  • 'Selling the South down the river'
  • Coup anniversary – 20 years of Islamist rule
  • Kikwete's bailout package
  • Unable to spend
  • Good news for some
  • Synchrobudgets
  • Tshwane's big five
  • Business beyond borders
  • The hard road to a new constitution
  • Tsvangirai carries the can
  • The hunt for Tompolo
  • Uhuru's accounting crisis
  • Jobs and votes
  • Curbing their enthusiasm
  • Après Bongo
  • How to win in a recession
  • Inside the four big oil traders
  • The other Pan-Africanists
  • Weapons for Darfur
  • Mistaken identity
  • Banana skin
  • Hanging tough
  • This time it will be different
  • Tajudeen Abdul Raheem
  • Akwaaba Obama
  • Who's counting?
  • The China choice
  • The cement boom
  • A public quarrel
  • A double win for Bingu
  • Looking for a sense of security
  • A filial succession
  • The contenders
  • The elections are coming, but don't hold your breath
  • Target Mogadishu
  • The telephone test
  • You've stood, now deliver
  • National, not regional
  • The fight gets more serious
  • Franc Afrique
  • Wade dynasty
  • Open sesame
  • Tactical defeat
  • Don't blame me!
  • Diamonds lose their shine
  • A credit-crunch presidency
  • Pax Guebuzana
  • Welome back, Chief Tony
  • Votes that don't add up
  • The security brigade
  • Pragmatism trumps ideology
  • Crime and amnesty
  • Until the stout lady sings
  • The challengers
  • A change is going to come
  • After the G-20, the money-go-around
  • Harder cash but warmer words
  • Losing the plot
  • Warnings
  • Speak easy
  • Do or die
  • An offshore imbroglio
  • Who is in charge here?
  • Brothers and enemies
  • Who shoots first?
  • Ernest's election
  • Keep someone else’s peace
  • No rally for the MDC
  • The fight over the basic law
  • On the line to Zuma
  • Learning to love Jacob Zuma
  • The bust and after
  • Oil without borders
  • And the good news
  • Museveni - from grand reformer to simply surviving
  • Une affaire de famille
  • Tendai Biti has a plan
  • Good-bye to Zimbabwe's dollar
  • From retreat to turnaround
  • Victory in a vacuum
  • Sums that don't add up
  • The Mills grind slowly
  • It's the political economy, stupid!
  • Zuma's surprise package
  • The contenders
  • The Halliburton trials
  • Integrity in question
  • Hamas and Hezbollah
  • His father's son
  • A reform deadline for the rivals
  • Inside the sealed envelope
  • In office, but not in power
  • Inevitable victory
  • The electors: a changing landscape
  • The battle in the provinces
  • Words like freedom
  • Don't forget your SIM card
  • Aller-retour
  • Libya and its African brothers
  • Air strikes and silence
  • Homemade toxic assets
  • Sanctions and finance
  • One nation, two conferences
  • Then there were two
  • Security in disguise
  • Controlling Parliament
  • Bredenkamp bites back
  • Sub-Saharan Africa's Economic Outlook: The Crisis Deepens
  • Prominent Empowerment Deals
  • The piracy menace
  • After the economic crash, the political fallout
  • Khartoum fights back
  • New battles for Darfur
  • An African 'war on terror'
  • BEE hits the credit crunch
  • Anti-pirate alliance
  • 'Andry TGV' takes over
  • Paying off grudges
  • Trouble in Kinshasa
  • Farewell, Lady Bongo
  • Ancestral spirits
  • Shake-up in Freetown
  • See you in the court
  • Unfinished business
  • Claims and counter-claims
  • A morality contest
  • Waiting in the wings
  • A brutal family business
  • A new federation
  • Omer the outlaw
  • Now blood gold
  • Worthless cash
  • Next, the mines
  • Caviar and cholera
  • Mutually assured destruction
  • Tesler trapped
  • Pushing Wako
  • The rebel's return
  • Alison Des Forges
  • New putsch, new players
  • Two horse race
  • Nice enough
  • Where is Al Shabaab now?
  • The Sheik Sharif show
  • The indispensable Manuel
  • Don't shoot the ambulance
  • Rich resources, little investment
  • Peace and the looming crisis
  • The briefcase tycoon is back
  • A mutual security pact
  • The ZANU team
  • The MDC line-up
  • A mixture, not a coalition
  • More couscous
  • Who dares, loses
  • Medical advice
  • The long arm
  • Small but strategic
  • Stalemate in the Western Sahara
  • Electoral juggernaut
  • House of Mubarak
  • Junta asks for time
  • Rumblings of dissent
  • The Gadaffi business
  • Reform-minded monarch
  • Is Rawlings the back-seat driver?
  • Lining up the Mills team
  • Who's who in the standoff
  • Politics curdle for the Yoghurt King
  • Copper slide
  • High stakes in the Gonopoly game
  • Harare's new rule book
  • Power-sharing for bankrupt beginners
  • Shotgun wedding
  • The summit divides over unity
  • Diversions and deviations at the Summit
  • Why Jos burned
  • Good-bye, maybe
  • Ghana's chance
  • Oil ballot
  • Serious fraud hunt
  • Topping the charts
  • Out on a limb
  • Africa scrambles for Africa
  • Abidjan's anglos
  • Une autre entente
  • Hornet's nest
  • Political chemistry
  • Dubious democracy
  • Many complaints, some satisfaction
  • Trial and error
  • Central Africa's schism
  • West Africa, according to Mr Taylor
  • No surrender, no deal
  • Economic facts and fantasies
  • Back to the battleground
  • Credits crunched
  • Yom Ashura
  • Guards for sale
  • Khartoum's bankers
  • Biya rejects the Ghana model
  • Zuma versus the law
  • A rift among rebels
  • New rules for the oil business
  • A gathering storm
  • Bargaining with warlords
  • No longer at ease
  • New politics, new threats
  • The new men under fire
  • A popular putsch, so far
  • Before and after the voting
  • Two and a half cheers for democracy
  • Old wounds, new crises
  • Courts and killings
  • Whiskey doubles all round
  • The end game speeds up
  • A new landscape unfolds
  • Trying to cope
  • Zuma's Christmas
  • Here for the beer
  • Jungle justice
  • Out with an editor
  • Back to Addis
  • A sheikh returns to the fray
  • Another third term in Africa
  • Boutef, the Life President
  • Hunting the killers
  • Who fixed the election and how
  • More unga than chungwa
  • Nkunda wants the whole deal
  • Crisis? What crisis?
  • No change we can believe in
  • Mutinies, money and Mugabe
  • More pressure on the cedi
  • The winner has to wait
  • Pirates and the lads
  • Corruption credentials
  • Diabolical quarrels
  • Identifying the problems
  • Swapping Stakes
  • Slowdown hits the sparklers
  • Dialogue of the deaf
  • Master political survivor
  • Biya's grip
  • How to reinvent Black Economic Empowerment
  • Where the parties get their funds
  • Who arms Laurent Nkunda?
  • Shooting down a president
  • The business of politics
  • Mining downturn
  • A message from our sponsors
  • Making money with Britain's help
  • Greed in a time of cholera
  • Towards Mali
  • Mutual aid
  • Espion embarrassant
  • Anonymous commerce
  • A kidnapped colonel
  • A mysterious US$100 million
  • The Gono hot air balloon
  • The aid debate: good, bad or misplaced
  • Bringing in the harvest
  • How smuggling pays for killing
  • The man who says no
  • Nujoma's grasp
  • Banda boxes clever
  • Banda, the successor
  • Changes ahead for UN forces
  • Among the survivors
  • The waiting game
  • Three's a crowd
  • Forever delayed
  • Minority politics
  • Economy: Trouble in the markets
  • Nigeria's banks: double or quits
  • The youth game gets older
  • Two brutal stalemates
  • Facing Nkunda
  • The Left's alternative economics
  • Squaring the circle
  • Kony's new front
  • Islamic alliance
  • Pirates and tanks
  • Corruption countdown
  • The Waki report
  • Calling politicians to account
  • Africa and the credit crash
  • Sweet FA
  • The Kivu impasse
  • A one-sided election
  • The breakaways
  • All politics is provincial
  • On the verge of a nervous breakdown
  • Hunger stalks the land
  • Mugabe rearranges the deckchairs
  • A diamond power play
  • Diplomats on the campaign trail
  • Obama rings the changes
  • Brothers reunited
  • Khartoum's strategy
  • Spiralling serpents
  • Pre-presidential discord
  • Financial and political chaos
  • The Millennium stops here
  • All my friends in New York
  • Arms and the boys
  • Brotherly love
  • Spreading toxicity
  • Alarmed allies
  • Farms are the key
  • Politicians parley, people starve
  • Next, the economic battle
  • Another ethnic scramble
  • Graft never really went away
  • Forest contracts review
  • Prime Minister departs
  • Would be breakaway
  • 'Elder brother' Motlanthe
  • A wounded presidency
  • Treaty testing
  • Copper crunch
  • Frequent flyers
  • Pushing out patronage
  • The President's men
  • All about power
  • Who's counting?
  • Men of honour
  • Jet set and match
  • Spinning south
  • King's move
  • Paris and the prince
  • Taylorland under siege
  • My enemy's enemy
  • Pride and prejudice
  • It's the economy
  • The General's election
  • Concrete overcoats
  • Tin soldiers
  • Pirates afloat
  • Exorcising demons
  • The ANC – a luta continua
  • Politicians versus judges
  • The Angolagate trial
  • The storm before the storm
  • The Darfur dance
  • A rough beginning
  • Stand and deliver
  • Running mates
  • Deals after the deal
  • Political theatre
  • A three-legged race
  • Banned, still deadly
  • Francophone fronts
  • Conference calls
  • Cyril and the suits
  • Hard talk in Kinshasa
  • Up with Biwott
  • Voting violence
  • Unhealthy talk
  • Adenuga's back
  • The drones club
  • A cocaine coup fails
  • Two virgins
  • The son also rises
  • The dead bite back
  • Who wants to run the country?
  • A hard act to follow
  • It's go-go with Gono
  • Mnangagwa's second coming
  • Commissions galore
  • The evidence unfolds
  • Muzzling the media
  • Campaign coffers
  • Elections at last
  • Service shuffle
  • Truculent two
  • Bin Laden's bridge
  • After Levy
  • Quiet coup
  • Iron ore, jaw-jaw
  • The high price of political phones
  • Right number, right time
  • The grounds for complaint
  • In the dock for the bombings
  • Delta forces
  • Wasteful wars, foreign friends
  • The rot at the top
  • Our mutual friend
  • The Nogo and Gono show
  • Bristling border
  • The names and the shame
  • How the fighting spread
  • Blame the judges
  • Presidents and lawyers
  • Coalition under strain
  • Bogged down
  • Fru Ndi's trial
  • The real deal
  • Fourth for M7
  • Jam-packed
  • The judges, lawyers and ministers
  • Judges of the Constitutional Court
  • Taking positions
  • Saving Omer
  • A sick man's contest
  • Yar'Adua's judges on trial
  • Arms and the men
  • Britain and the sanctions question
  • War crimes
  • Boom time
  • Not much enlightenment
  • Zuma takes the provinces
  • The Colonel's shopping spree
  • A hotel, a minister and a scandal
  • Wako's war
  • Land grab
  • Radio Silence
  • 'If you have a gun you attack everything in front of you'
  • Abyei - a border that shapes the future
  • Not the plane truth
  • Pirates of the Horn
  • ZANU-PF stashes the cash
  • Transatlantic tryst
  • Virtual voters
  • Soldier go, soldier come
  • Authoritarian notes
  • Ivorian auction
  • Industrial revolution
  • No case, no answer
  • The competition heats up
  • Skimming a bad system
  • Democratic deficit
  • Kony causes trouble again
  • A slightly cracked coalition
  • Friends old and new
  • Daughters and generals
  • One party rule
  • The Russians are coming
  • Time to reshuffle
  • Slow turnaround
  • Keep an eye on Mnangagwa
  • Can the party hold together?
  • Where the government gets its money
  • Deaths and deals
  • Leaving for Lomé
  • Look in The Mirror
  • Une autre entente II
  • Mining the depths
  • Down with tariffs
  • Franc-zone to Euroland
  • Morgan's third way
  • The fire this time
  • Somali ceasefire signed
  • Shooting war in Djibouti
  • Getting their own back
  • Graft at the top
  • After the politics, the money
  • The region grows – despite politics and prices
  • The neighbours start to turn
  • The praise singing club
  • Yar'Adua boosts oil production
  • Slaughter on the border
  • The Ibori test
  • At the circus
  • Third term triangle
  • Tourist trap
  • Tough times
  • The khaki election
  • Diamond horror
  • Mawere against Mugabe
  • Correction
  • Sanctions and standards
  • A family business
  • Once more the President's man
  • Biya's purge
  • The cracks spread
  • Locked up
  • Off with their heads
  • Change in Chikomba
  • Fighting democracy – Mugabe's last stand
  • Quiet President, worried country
  • A last chance reshuffle
  • Paying the price
  • Bemba under arrest
  • Apartheid's awful legacy
  • Ulenga's challenge
  • Lomé minus Lomé
  • Muddy waters
  • Disunited kingdom
  • Gouled's choice
  • War in the mountains
  • Boutef is bounced back
  • Washington Who's Who
  • London's laundries
  • Nuclear nexus
  • James Lemkin
  • Oil is expensive: water, anyone?
  • A look on the bright side
  • In the rain-forrest
  • A dangerous invasion
  • Money battles
  • Judge Kriegler looks into the elections
  • Grand coalition - its divisions and prospects
  • A targeted killing
  • Abyei devastated
  • Who is JEM?
  • Battle of Omdurman
  • Battle lines in Washington and Africa
  • Brand new Zuma washes whiter
  • Mnangagwa's return to form
  • Dealing with a wounded tiger
  • Good COPS, bad COPS
  • Oddly normal II
  • Under cover
  • Wojciech Chodan, Pepys and Shell
  • The gas ghost keeps haunting
  • It's the price that counts
  • Peace deal in shreds
  • Drifting apart
  • Hidden depths
  • The stand against Mugabe
  • Sick man, sick opposition
  • The departed return
  • Fighting the Fund
  • Accidental coup
  • Bongo for Bill
  • Deadly diamonds
  • Shell-shocked
  • The fiscal fight
  • The military imbalance
  • Fantasy rules
  • The $2.7 billion hole in the bank
  • Abubakar's offer
  • Bongo's lobby fest
  • Enemies within
  • World-class war
  • Provincial power struggle
  • Confusions in the Cape
  • Whitehall's Africa team
  • Diplomacy with attitude
  • Publishing pearl
  • Lightning strike
  • Big Wheels
  • Island initiative
  • Oil-fired warfare
  • Uneasy peace
  • Compulsory coalition
  • Golden parachutes
  • Eritrea and its cousins
  • Regional collisions
  • It's Omar II
  • Fernandez letter
  • Forced to talk
  • Muluzi's democracy test
  • Divided republic
  • Crisis brings opportunity
  • Reforms, but not radical
  • Cash call
  • Politique a l'Americaine
  • Number crunching
  • Vicious voting
  • The peace process teams
  • The peace deal that wasn't
  • Oceanic turnaround
  • The opposition line-up
  • Can the opposition fight and can it rule?
  • It's not over yet
  • Oddly normal
  • Gluttons for punishment
  • In the fog of peace
  • Unhealthy prospects
  • Open season on Obasanjo
  • Gaydamak goes
  • Cabinet crisis
  • Biya amendment
  • Trouble at Mills's
  • The best elections money can buy
  • Treading on the corn
  • Diamond power
  • New man, new discipline
  • Nigeria takes on Big Oil
  • Lake Albert and the gushers
  • Big oil, dear oil, new oil
  • The main points of the Abyei Protocol
  • The real dividing line
  • The hyperinflation club
  • Tsvangirai's transient victory
  • The ugly endgame
  • Reforming the reformers
  • Down, not out
  • Figuring it out
  • Gauteng for Mbeki
  • Sitting target
  • Butcher Shop
  • Jollies and jets
  • Hotel Hellacious
  • Nightmare on Broad Street
  • The vultures gather
  • Addis plays its diplomatic cards
  • The border deadlock
  • La Françafrique est morte, vive la Françafrique
  • The spirit moves them
  • The ex-revolutionary front
  • Marking ballots, selling shares
  • Harare eyes the Kenyan model
  • The sick man of the south
  • Cocaine coast
  • Goma's ghosts
  • Inscrutable Khama
  • King Bauxite
  • First clean up, then list
  • Stash the cash
  • Moses on the mountain
  • Down the mines
  • Life after a game of golf
  • Trans-Century and transcendental
  • Second honeymoon for the money men
  • Missing the target
  • The road to ruin
  • Elections within elections
  • The people versus Biya
  • On the brink of a deal
  • A birthday at Beitbridge
  • Constituency carve-ups
  • Technical knock-out
  • The Harambee House deal
  • An outbreak of cordiality
  • Lifting the bamboo curtain
  • Bush, the farewell tour
  • Not on parade
  • Local is national
  • The Wade summit
  • Politics of the budget
  • Putting figures on it
  • Thunder on the left
  • Selective divestment
  • Mission position
  • Party probe
  • Bad marks
  • Indicting Kigali
  • The Hillary effect
  • From Chikurubi to Blackbeach
  • Power crisis
  • Cleaning the stables
  • Papers and death merchants
  • Delays in deployment
  • Beyond the borders
  • Déby – caught between Paris and Khartoum
  • Message from the wazungu
  • The safari talks
  • In the lion's den
  • The real Makoni stands up
  • Electrical and political power cuts
  • Divided House in Cape Town
  • Cocaine cops
  • Wealthy sovereigns
  • Ordinary rendition
  • Makoni's mouth
  • Military options
  • The spurned advisor at State House
  • The soldiers wait in the wings
  • Presidents, gems and trade
  • One Conakry, two Lansanas
  • Economic crisis without borders
  • Bring in the money
  • Kabila's men, Kabila's jobs
  • Déjà Kivu
  • Oil and Abuja: A rockier relationship
  • Judgment day is coming
  • Taxing times
  • Higher level
  • Father and son
  • Accounting problems
  • Frontier market
  • The gang's all here
  • Handshakes at dusk
  • Panic, what panic?
  • 'I know the corrupt'
  • Show time for the spooks
  • Zuma's people on top
  • The party is not yet split
  • Jumping ship
  • The heart of the matter
  • Looking for a leader
  • The centre versus the rest
  • Politics and Economics in 2008
  • Elite and underground politics
  • Unjust deserts in the Western Sahara
  • From war to peace
  • Lev Leviev lands in London
  • Kingmakers and charlatans
  • A slow road to travel
  • Political hurdles ahead
  • The Indian Ocean swells
  • Kenya moves closer to the edge
  • Election shockwaves spread
  • Cross patch
  • Mnangagwa momentum
  • Pitching camp
  • Bank blow
  • With a little help from his friends
  • Copper-clad deals
  • At last, a possible peace
  • Race to the top
  • A peninsula war
  • The oil governor under arrest
  • See you in court
  • Not quite indispensable
  • 'Unstoppable tsunami'
  • From the Muthaiga Club to the hustings
  • Raila and Team Tinga
  • Closer and closer
  • Two crocodiles
  • Koroma's Christmas present
  • Regal rivalry
  • The wrong report
  • Ethiopia's options
  • A new man in Mogadishu
  • The Africa Forum
  • Three men in a boat
  • On the edges of the club
  • Moving on
  • Secretarial duties
  • Mr Secretary Sharma
  • Friendly in Kampala
  • Mbeki to the rescue
  • The third man or possibly - woman
  • Zuming ahead
  • Breaking up the party
  • The cedi and pesewa vote
  • Who spends, wins
  • Sanctions sense
  • Guerre du lac
  • Mining undermined
  • Animated suspension
  • Conflict diamonds change shape
  • Less blood on the stones
  • Promises and lies
  • Judges misjudged
  • Wading in
  • All come to the aid of the party – and fight it out
  • The tail wags the dog
  • The compromise candidates
  • This time I'm going. No, really
  • Two hotels go missing
  • Problematic peace as the Commonwealth meets
  • Fund furore and banking bailout
  • New chiefs now, new policies later
  • Scrum half
  • Brown's boycott
  • Digging Belinga
  • In loco parentis
  • The wooing of Kinshasa
  • No borders against trouble
  • Which rules? Whose laws?
  • Godfathers, the sequel
  • Raiding the camps
  • Sam bows out again
  • Conflict in a lakeside church
  • His friend Bob
  • Shooting the messenger
  • Comprehensively breached
  • The Mo Laureate
  • Bond bonanza
  • Renaissance woman
  • Security seats
  • Trading places
  • The new man picks his team
  • Take me to your traditional leader
  • A king's ransom
  • Zuma, Buthelezi and the Zulu nation
  • How many states for the north?
  • Fall out at the top
  • Bad history
  • Wait while we connect you
  • Salva and the Salvation regime
  • Wrong number again
  • Surfing the surge
  • Healing the rift
  • That troublesome border
  • A Katsina man in New York
  • Ban Ki-moon's people
  • Debuts on First Avenue
  • The 'Soro ranks'
  • A do-it-yourself peace
  • Mining men
  • Contract committee
  • Contracts under review
  • Le scandale géologique
  • Intelligence in a divided house
  • Zuma in the sights
  • Exit Pikoli, Chief Prosecutor
  • Doctor, doctor
  • The opposition advantage
  • Trebles all round
  • Southern warning
  • Kasongo v CAMEC
  • Boots nearer to the ground
  • Best election dirhams could buy
  • Revolt in the desert
  • Roots of the ONLF rebellion
  • The Ogaden's trickling sands
  • The banishing of Billy
  • No holds barred
  • Turbulent priests
  • Signs of movement
  • A clean sweep, maybe
  • No ode to joy
  • Yellowcake rebellion
  • A turn for the worse
  • Leaky bucket
  • Putting the country to work
  • Darfur deadlines
  • Cocaine central
  • Secretarial duties
  • Old timers and first timers
  • Africa moves up the agenda
  • Mugabe's people in the provinces
  • He keeps on winning
  • More fighting, more aid
  • Gas project haunts politicians
  • A tale of two cities
  • Unhealthy (II)
  • Unhealthy (I)
  • Smokescreen
  • Neighbours undercover
  • The race to win
  • Who's Who in the war and peace talks
  • Half and half
  • Mission improbable
  • Non-Government Who's Who
  • Government Who's Who
  • Ottawa rewrites the diplomatic and commercial rules
  • Breaking the political mould
  • Closer and more credible
  • Doing good, not doing well
  • Tinga's tractor in top gear
  • Politicians overboard
  • Boiling point
  • Winning ways
  • Rapture not rupture
  • Sam the lifer
  • Going wrong again
  • Parties turn to the young guards
  • Electoral arithmetic
  • Back-biting
  • Rumours and plots
  • Making haste slowly
  • No contest
  • Personal not proportional
  • The first-round fight
  • The Millennium deal
  • More blood, more cash
  • Death of a general
  • Post-presidential
  • Mugging Miala
  • Clipping Taiwan
  • Tower of power
  • Jacques et le juge
  • Unity on a smaller scale
  • Election failure
  • Can't pay, won't pay
  • South Africa's Communists: The People
  • A Communist manifestation - the return of the left
  • White Nile sees red in the south
  • Salva's shuffle
  • Judging the judges
  • Justice at a price
  • Ministerial and musical chairs
  • Everyone's in the race
  • Long arms
  • Bank robbery
  • Brownie points
  • Nkunda in the hills
  • Books on the boom
  • Tokyo's business village
  • Cyril the suit and his assets
  • The race for the presidency heats up as business joins in
  • Economics of the sieve
  • Politics of the sieve
  • Good week, bad year
  • The Gadaffi caravan moves on
  • Nkrumah's second coming
  • Unfunny money
  • Yellow card
  • Francophilie
  • Paris to Lusaka
  • The Nile flows on
  • Mbeki's triumph
  • Where's the door?
  • New team, old players
  • Exeunt sojas
  • All hail to the chief
  • Kivu clashes ahead
  • Sarko's team
  • Unity? Who with?
  • All aboard
  • The clock turns back
  • The cocaine web spreads
  • Post-war hopes hit trouble
  • Warriors by proxy
  • Unlikely meeting of minds
  • In denial, in extremis
  • Intelligent design
  • At the barrel of a gun
  • Rival refugees
  • Bienvenue à Alger
  • Gem gumshoes
  • Chissano tastes success
  • Close shave
  • Powers behind the throne
  • Mbeki the mystery
  • The National Islamic Front on parade
  • The NIF goes on a charm offensive
  • Russian roulette
  • Eat the document
  • Sanction action
  • Blood chocolate
  • The Vulcan has landed
  • Africa's new debtors
  • Life without Jacques
  • A strange alliance
  • Cosa Namibia
  • Sam and son of Sam
  • Brown and the Brownites
  • From Blair to Brown
  • Terror comes home to roost
  • Campaign confusion
  • Champagne in the Delta
  • The new man in Abuja
  • Not my party
  • Grounded
  • Kabila gets a rival
  • The Bank test
  • Banished ballots
  • In the front ranks
  • Room at the top
  • The troops see red
  • The Western response
  • Year of the Pig - the new scramble for Africa
  • A wolf in the Congo
  • Dollars and mines
  • Big plans for power, roads and water
  • The Shanghai set
  • Kaberuka seizes the moment
  • Privatising politics
  • Border blues
  • EU exports
  • A deal in Lomé
  • A hard act to follow
  • Savimbi's splitters
  • Ethnic straitjackets
  • Fighting talk
  • Exit Arkady
  • Judges swoop
  • Noble's demise
  • Vote later, vote often
  • Jacob and the dog collar
  • L'Avenir c'est Sarko
  • Vultures over Lusaka
  • Stop thief
  • La caravane passe au Mali
  • A break with the past
  • Congo-Kinshasa's cumbersome experiment
  • Oppositionists and activists struggle to shake out the system
  • Africa's mission undermined
  • Caught in the act
  • Up for the cup
  • A new white hope
  • Giant steps
  • A troubled transition
  • Kabila's last throw
  • Arranged marriages
  • Tripoli calling
  • Robbing Peter...
  • Micro-state struggles
  • Power cuts
  • Totally elfin
  • Alger l'Africaine
  • Tougher talk
  • Oiling the wheels of peace
  • Showing who's boss
  • French hook
  • The past awakes
  • Going nuclear Russian-style
  • Pass the hat around
  • The trials of Wolfowitz
  • Politicians and their parties
  • ATT seeks takokélén
  • Mogadishu clear up
  • The Jihadists' friend
  • The great gamble
  • Khalifa in court
  • Under attack
  • Uneasy truce in Delta State
  • The men from the south
  • The dealmaking begins
  • Rendition confusion
  • Chukka, not pukka
  • Areva in hot water
  • Going nuclear
  • Economy
  • Under new management
  • The bashing of Bemba
  • Analysis
  • Kabbah in a hurry
  • Aid and votes
  • Table
  • Too many parties spoil the polls
  • Yar'Adua prepares for power
  • Jacques' jaunt
  • Out of Africa
  • Gerald's jeep
  • Presidential field
  • Too close to call
  • U-turns, screw turns
  • Leakey's big game
  • Problematic peace
  • Desert kingdom or desert republic?
  • Our friend, the new king
  • No jogging
  • ADO ado
  • Gas mask
  • On the fringe of a war
  • A hammer to a nut
  • Manège à trois
  • Old unions, new ANC
  • Not for turning
  • Clearly confusing
  • Obasanjo's one hundred days
  • Self-determination
  • Muddy votes
  • Moi's no-shuffle
  • Choppy waters
  • Chinja maitiro!
  • Nervous tension
  • Friends fall out
  • Complex war, ambitious peace
  • Constitution clampdown
  • Changement dans la sérénité
  • A blow-up blows over
  • Deadly collaboration
  • Oil's new power
  • A frontier affair
  • The wealth in common
  • Rough justice
  • How to put it together again - as the Mugabe regime totters
  • Regional ructions
  • Coming to the aid of the parties
  • No-party politics rule
  • Claims on Kebble's gold
  • First murder, now money
  • Trouble in the neighbourhood
  • Discontent in the air
  • Muluzi the Third
  • The thirsty wait for water
  • The kidnap mystery
  • To chop or to save - the main players
  • Can the trees be saved?
  • All their own work
  • The neighbours are unstable
  • Referee in a tug-of-war
  • Measuring the dirty money
  • Financial secrecy
  • Which clan is in charge now?
  • Peacekeepers under fire
  • Soft sell at 50
  • Cash and blood on the streets
  • Beware the Ides of March
  • Mosisili's snap victory
  • Trade union truce
  • Bad medicine
  • Southern front
  • First steps
  • Pipe Dreams
  • Zambia's big new investments
  • The bitter side of the boom
  • Mining revolt
  • A highly political budget
  • Chirac's last Cannes-Cannes
  • Wade gets his way
  • A rare soldiering success
  • Hinga's death hits home
  • Indictments, then elections
  • The grudge match goes on
  • Global prisoner
  • Authoritarian alliances
  • Senegal Elections 2007
  • SWAPO splinters
  • China in Chambeshi
  • Buying time
  • Anniversary boycott
  • Toxic traffic
  • Shuffling the deckchairs
  • Conté goes another round
  • Who counts in the Darfur rebellion?
  • The commanders confer
  • Women in power
  • Muluzi on the record
  • Ethnic alarums
  • Odinga and the Oranges
  • Kabila's yes-men
  • Winner takes (almost) all
  • Cyril eyes the presidency
  • Raining on the parade
  • No deal for Seck
  • Bond breakthrough
  • Snowe white-out
  • Minni on the rampage
  • Guebuza and governance
  • Upwards and onwards
  • Ghana's gain
  • The snubbing of Sudan
  • How crooks still exploit the system
  • The Addis to Mogadishu axis
  • Two peas in a pod
  • The strike that shook Conté
  • Buhari's election headlines
  • What future for the reform team?
  • Party pieces
  • Polls postponed
  • Bad moon rising
  • Strangers in the night
  • Who said what to whom?
  • Promised land
  • Enter the capitalists
  • Packaging the peacekeepers
  • Gushing higher
  • Breaking the line
  • South Africa's spat
  • How to run a continent
  • Bailing out President Mugabe
  • New Year election blues
  • Tafidan's ghost
  • Marching across the border
  • Peace but no keepers
  • Politics and Economics in 2007
  • Waiting in line
  • Succession sagas
  • The new frontlines
  • The Pharoah's long adieu
  • Old soldiers never die
  • Generals and lawyers
  • On the brink
  • Candidates and rivals
  • Annivesaries and elections
  • Annual Conference
  • Law wars
  • Trade-off
  • Crossing the river
  • Hotel Mogadishu
  • Crossed lines
  • An economic fairy tale
  • Joining the big league
  • Washington shuffle
  • Testing Mittal's steel
  • Economy up, politics down
  • Peace and security
  • Khartoum's proxies
  • Militias and the South
  • The Southern front reopens
  • Penalty shoot-out
  • Knocking out the lion's teeth
  • Retaliatory justice
  • Resolution riddles
  • Grafters' gridlock
  • Comeback couples
  • Atiku again
  • Forget the politics, say advisors
  • Powering up
  • The President speaks
  • Investigation down under
  • No win, no gain
  • Voters and protestors start to register
  • A plan from the centre
  • Sudan targets Chad
  • Defining the peacekeepers
  • The Darfur deadline passes
  • La grande rupture
  • The police chief, his friends and foes
  • Help, murder, police!
  • Carpet crossing
  • Presidential chopper
  • Vila Algarve
  • Turki's landing
  • All property is theft
  • The established producers
  • The new exploration grounds
  • Digging a black hole
  • After the results
  • Sekibo and the drones
  • An outsider moves up the list
  • Breaking the arms embargo
  • The Mujuru political network
  • Surreal succession
  • Banny's bonus
  • Madonna madness
  • Ill-judged death
  • Missing in action
  • Fear of flying
  • Legal minefields
  • Economic star, social crisis
  • Upbeat Statisticians
  • Beyond the Horn
  • Commerce, cooperation and controversy
  • The Dutch diversion
  • Wars across borders
  • Boots on the ground
  • Starstruck Starcrest
  • The next election deadline
  • Contretemps
  • Toxic trials
  • Riek's battalion
  • Kobi's refuge
  • Signal from Saudi
  • No man an island
  • No EASSY rider
  • Diamond dollars
  • Diamonds, gold and guns
  • Who is eligible to vote?
  • The road to the ANC's 2007 National Conference
  • The ANC's toughest election yet
  • All for one, not yet
  • The Titanic sails at dawn
  • Brothers in Armenia
  • The anti-corruption collapse
  • Carole Collins
  • Sam sues
  • Radio row
  • The West's weakness
  • Jammeh tomorrow
  • Let it walk
  • Toxic timeline
  • The toxic trade
  • Cairo's costly hubris
  • Pride and prejudice
  • No consensus on the census
  • Leaving it late
  • Peace postponed
  • Enter ex-Presidents
  • Back in the fold
  • Khartoum's jihadis
  • Crying Wolfowitz
  • One of us cannot be wrong
  • Déby supreme, for now
  • Ambitions in the north
  • Pots, kettles and corruption
  • Easy for Jammeh
  • A bull in China's shop
  • Gosh again
  • Biya goes on and on
  • Dubious coup
  • Mbeki's diplomatic team
  • New powers, new policy
  • Heading north
  • Mission Mogadishu
  • A threat to the Horn and beyond
  • The forces in Darfur's war
  • Presidential hopefuls take to the road
  • Countdown for Conté
  • Explosive results
  • Troubled talks
  • Sam and the successors
  • The real rebels
  • Cabinda dreaming
  • Starter's orders
  • Zapping the zeroes
  • A political resurrection
  • Undercurrent
  • Bredenkamp busted
  • Democratic deficits
  • Levy and King Cobra
  • Budget bludgeon
  • Flirting with the enemy
  • After Darfur's deal
  • Courts without authority
  • Two elections, one country
  • Khartoum's veto
  • Challengers step up
  • Snow white
  • The governor's dues
  • Up close and personal
  • Front-runners and hopefuls
  • A new political season
  • Pressure mounts to end neglect of the North
  • Opening broadside
  • Pause in St Petersburg
  • Charles Janson
  • Unhappy returns
  • Time's up
  • Zanzibar: the islands are quiet for now
  • Zero tolerance, so far
  • New Luanda's gleaming towers
  • Beijing's embrace
  • Beijing's touring team
  • Pomp and patronage
  • Posturing outweighs the policy
  • Ndebele intrigue
  • Starting guns
  • Reformers reshuffle
  • Dutch probe
  • The Armenian connection
  • Islamist takeover
  • Candidates wanted
  • Drying up growth
  • Les jeux sont faits
  • The vote that nobody wins
  • Green revolution
  • AU friends
  • At the sick bed
  • Aliyu and the drones
  • Old faces
  • The signs are rusting
  • Tough talking
  • Smiling all the way
  • Head to head
  • The cocaine conspiracy
  • Hard talk at No.10
  • Cocoa wars
  • Omissions
  • Konaré's stopover
  • Uncle Sam's ban
  • Slapping the messenger
  • Kaberuka's new team
  • Star-studded in Ouaga
  • Southern discomfort
  • Taping the LRA
  • Terror in Mogadishu
  • Business backers
  • Pop goes the third term balloon
  • Filling the lanterns
  • Bakili's bullets
  • The heart of the matter
  • There goes the party
  • The new two
  • Who's in charge here?
  • JZ is innocent, so far
  • Who makes the shirts?
  • It's the government, stupid
  • Brass at the top
  • The Spill Blood succession
  • Air heads
  • Cutting corners
  • Sick note
  • Oddest bedfellows
  • Where sick men rule
  • Foreign fingers
  • Déby hangs on
  • Veteran rebels
  • Monster party
  • Jacob Zuma's money
  • All eyes on Phumzile
  • Shutting up shop
  • The inspectors call
  • Foreign funds
  • Third term unlucky
  • Old contenders, new hopefuls
  • New politics at last
  • Identity crisis
  • A shortage of sparkle
  • The accused
  • Courting disaster
  • Taylor's trajectories
  • Lackadaisical list
  • Enter kingmakers
  • Treason's delays
  • Twilight of the chameleon
  • Khartoum's long arm
  • The hostile host
  • The big guns salute
  • Election budget
  • On the frontline
  • Pressing for a deal
  • Professional risks
  • Now you see him
  • Divided on debt
  • Tentative
  • The Cahora Bassa takeover
  • Remaking Guebuza
  • Zuma speaks
  • Local grumbles
  • Biting the snake
  • In the hole
  • Exporting the vote
  • Stealing, fighting, seeking power
  • Showdown in the Delta
  • Adeus espião
  • Rich pickings
  • Bingu's gamble
  • Names and blames
  • Man with a plan?
  • Swapover
  • Nujoma won't go
  • Trouble in the east
  • Looking into the abyss
  • Losing and winning
  • Museveni wins, at a price
  • Ten per cent
  • Judges and generals
  • Smooth operator
  • The pink card
  • Africa's loss
  • Waiting but not sitting
  • Not all necessary powers
  • Copper friendly
  • For growth, a new acronym
  • Growing pains, legal pain
  • The hawks are circling
  • US hurricane
  • Booted out
  • Confucius, he say
  • The President's generals
  • Human wrongs
  • Mystery kidnappers
  • Making the President nervous
  • Losers can win too
  • The anti-corruption czar, the businessman and his lawyer
  • Going down with the ship
  • Bane of Banny
  • Death in the canal
  • 'Drowning season'
  • Poll postponed
  • Changing regimes
  • Stout party splits
  • 'Beyond that now'
  • In cabinet
  • Hope at last
  • The Sino-Shango pact
  • A New Year offensive
  • Politics and Economics in 2006
  • Voters' voices
  • Trials and tribulations
  • Ponderous politicians
  • Electoral expectations
  • Oil and oligarchs
  • Bye bye Bayelsa
  • Political petroleum Inc.
  • Teflon Jammeh
  • Mr and Mrs
  • Mwai's muddle
  • A failing finale
  • Not so sweet
  • Another front, another deal
  • Democracy with fangs
  • Money-go-round
  • Cinderella and the generals
  • Generals, gems and graft
  • Talking up trade
  • On the runway
  • Senate subterfuge
  • Counting on oil
  • Privatisation flood
  • Strong boss, weaker party
  • Five years
  • Tummy tuck, bellyache
  • A good week for Mbeki
  • Oranges up, bananas down
  • Smashing the fruit bowl
  • Splitting the difference
  • Fear changes sides
  • Disbelief suspended
  • Corruption poll
  • Abacha's verdict
  • Ten years after
  • Circling the wagons
  • Vanishing votes
  • Birthday blues
  • Tears, fears and a martyr
  • Off-road rage
  • Madam President
  • Transition starts here
  • Peace for now
  • Explosive uranium
  • Captive Kolélas
  • Flying flu
  • Breaking point, again
  • Time's up
  • Follow the money
  • Politicians on notice
  • Armed and dangerous
  • Museveni's military
  • Homecomings
  • Island story
  • Bongo-gate
  • MDC muddle
  • Totally broke
  • A proxy election
  • Khartoum's game
  • Fighting the battle of Jericho
  • Gunmen or soldiers?
  • No truce yet
  • Penalty shoot out
  • Disaster
  • South Africa: If Zuma walks free
  • Post haste
  • Congo connection
  • A judge on his travels
  • Out and about
  • Ravalomanana Inc.
  • Billing and couping
  • They were all contenders
  • Flying with Solo B
  • No polls, no peace
  • Bad marriage vows
  • In the driving seat
  • Turning the corner
  • Hamutenya returns
  • Control
  • Cross to bear
  • Radical cheque
  • Moving the Movement
  • A test for the peers
  • Kikwete opts for continuity
  • All eyes on the islands
  • Welcome to the world
  • The soccer vote
  • Insecurity council
  • The good, the bad and the ugly rumours
  • Private coups
  • Clamped
  • Euro-observations
  • Terror imperative
  • Karanga calling
  • Islamists at work
  • Roadblock
  • Politics behind the trial
  • Githongo picks up the glove
  • Banana-skin vote
  • Players on parade
  • Power show
  • Size doesn't matter
  • Death by plane
  • Khama digs in
  • Paper tigers
  • Pohamba's graft test
  • Stuck in the Mittal
  • Blaming each other
  • Who is Salva?
  • Military manoeuvres
  • Opening the gates
  • Gunning for JZ
  • Trying the Veep
  • On edge
  • Inside track
  • Prizes for all
  • Full circle
  • Dancing partners
  • Trying talks
  • Reining in the military
  • Oil, dollars and votes
  • Half a cheer for democracy
  • Garang's last journey
  • Without Garang
  • Enlightenment
  • Diamond battles
  • Who let the dogs out?
  • Mission to China
  • Stalin's textbook
  • Sopi and Seck
  • Pressure points
  • Freedom unfledged
  • A tree, a house, a president
  • Notes on a scandal
  • The net widens
  • Debt and security
  • Torturers beware
  • Another third term
  • No sugar daddy
  • Legal losses
  • Who's who in the struggle
  • Deadlock
  • Peace postponed
  • Making up
  • Talking it over
  • Unkindest cuts
  • Yala the spoiler
  • More ships ahoy!
  • Post-election massacre
  • A matter of graft
  • Under new management
  • The brightness is fading
  • The clans line up
  • Diverted flight
  • Revolution day
  • A province says no
  • A trial for the ANC
  • Factions and fractions
  • Dominant Dominique
  • Undiplomatic closure
  • Watergate, the sequel
  • One law for the poor
  • Soccer, Islam and hard times
  • Brassed off: a contractor under fire
  • Blood over oil
  • Hotel Hullaballoo
  • Born again Stalinism
  • Marc and the miners
  • Corruption and conviction
  • Bozizé's win
  • Surreal
  • Watch this space
  • WMD
  • A man from Anjouan
  • Three into one
  • Through a glass very darkly
  • Vultures gather
  • Ijaw secession
  • Battles of Boro's ghost
  • Presidential duel
  • The ethnic factor
  • The big upset
  • Moyo makes mischief
  • Colonel inside
  • Belgium's man in Africa
  • Britain's man in Africa
  • Ship ahoy!
  • Storm warning
  • Faure's French friends
  • From the ground up
  • Running the South
  • Seizing the day in the South
  • What is the MDC for?
  • The dam bursts
  • The big push comes to shove
  • Hunger and hullaballoo
  • Back to DC
  • Lost and found
  • Parliament comes alive
  • Race for the presidency
  • Banking bust-up
  • Biwott is back again
  • Merci, Papa
  • Democracy's a luxury
  • Oil bubble
  • Warlord on the loose
  • Double Wamco
  • Papabile
  • Moscow marriages
  • No papers, no case
  • Radio silence
  • Future shock
  • Missing a basic law
  • Long-term agenda
  • A new-style monarchy
  • Who wants to tackle Museveni?
  • Milton stays lost
  • Crime and no punishment
  • Waiting for Kiev
  • Twixt South Africa and France
  • Wrong numbers again
  • What Cheney knew
  • Dis-Harmony
  • The end of a boom
  • Oloibiri, oil capital
  • Credibility on corruption
  • Can the centre hold?
  • Nervy neighbours
  • Presidential race
  • Finding the new Mwalimu
  • Joining the club
  • Who's in charge?
  • Moral choice
  • Cold murder trail
  • A putschist's progress
  • Olympic heights
  • Abdelaziz of Arabia
  • Mea culpa
  • For the greater Good
  • They also ran
  • Matebeleland moves on
  • IMF reprieve
  • Hannibal's campaign
  • Emotional stress
  • Belgium's bullet points
  • Reform on the rack
  • Power to the party
  • Faure falters
  • All about the jobs
  • The Africa Commission: people and money
  • The Blair report - unveiled
  • How can they vote?
  • The next caliph
  • It's my party
  • Waterborne corruption
  • Authoritarian instincts
  • Not a good start
  • Dynastic dictatorship
  • Every single day
  • Who's who on Darfur?
  • East of the border
  • Spies and counter-spies
  • Friends fall out
  • Welcome back to the state
  • Chinese firecrackers
  • High noon
  • Jammeh rejection
  • Who's spooking who?
  • Whodunit?
  • Wearing green
  • Pass the ammunition
  • Operation Kisanja
  • Peace is pricey
  • The new flagbearers
  • Rebellion under the rainbow
  • His own man
  • Chinese walls
  • Impossible vote
  • Southern spookery
  • Heading higher
  • Aid, trade and reform
  • New at the convivial party
  • Bongo for ever
  • Ogbeh walks out
  • Capital concerns
  • West of the border
  • Joy in the South, silence in the North
  • Crabs in a barrel
  • They're off - or not
  • Putsch de Noël
  • Manipulation
  • Cooperation again
  • Reverse roles
  • Decision time
  • More rumblings
  • New brooms
  • Less debt, more growth
  • Brave new century
  • Political map
  • Diplomatic hubbub
  • Time to deliver
  • Too many troops
  • Peace, or else
  • Pan-Africanism meets market economics
  • Correction
  • Don't sign anything
  • A shining example
  • On edge
  • Boom boom, China's coming
  • Diamond diagnosis
  • The truth of the matter
  • Now for the hard work
  • Man with a past
  • Guebuza's day
  • Morgan's method
  • A heartbeat away
  • Bingu ascendant
  • Bye-bye, Moyo
  • Coming to blows
  • Another man with a plan
  • Sam's successor
  • Talk of the towns
  • There's money in reconstruction, if you have friends
  • Election, what election?
  • Under the volcanoes
  • Golden trial
  • Russian roulette
  • Honoured dictator
  • Trial of strength
  • Khama's coming
  • Murder by any name
  • Queuing for court
  • Government versus party
  • Gunning for Number 2
  • No more 'comrade' Gbagbo
  • At war with the peacekeepers
  • Africa map
  • Another Euroland
  • Unmoved movers
  • Busting the busters
  • Building blocks
  • Pipe bombs
  • Blow up
  • Phone sects
  • Military-minded
  • The UN tries again
  • Dead men's shoes
  • Spinning a pipeline
  • No proxy peace
  • Whodunit?
  • Stolen stones
  • No holds barred
  • Who's dropping the debt?
  • Life after debt
  • Au secours!
  • Danse macabre
  • Saudi white knight
  • Ultra-deep dodo
  • Bailing in
  • Battle of Bailundo
  • Diamond deal
  • All his own work
  • Cleaning up oil
  • Losing a peacemaker
  • After Mwalimu
  • Counter-attack
  • Bziz buzzes again
  • Desert king
  • Digging deeper holes
  • Rhodies to the rescue
  • Precious little peace
  • Getting DC's drift
  • Battling for Badme
  • Ceasefire under threat
  • A gambit too far
  • Diamonds for guns
  • Bédié's flashpoint
  • Gunmen at the gate
  • Chiluba and after
  • Broom sweeps Basri
  • Presidential accounts
  • Postponing the new order
  • Hostile homeland
  • Going to the dentist
  • Tandja wins, ok
  • Lousy legacies
  • Tarnished gold
  • Mubarak's men - new and old
  • Pharaoh's frown
  • The blue helmets return
  • A Nujoma dynasty?
  • Faustian deal
  • Green light
  • Loaded magazine
  • A very private war II
  • Lacklustre and listless
  • Militant diplomacy
  • Battle for the palace
  • A government of economics and security
  • Economic trumps
  • Drama in the Durban dock
  • Facts on a fax
  • Specially designated
  • New model army
  • Pig in a poke
  • Tsvangirai half free
  • Front-line investigators
  • Post-war clean up
  • Proof of the PUDDing
  • A model?
  • Show us the money!
  • Smelling an elephant
  • Brussels dawn
  • Muddy
  • Readjusted
  • Busting Billy
  • Off-side
  • Advantage Kigali
  • Obiang's heritage
  • Sorry, wrong number
  • Going for broke
  • Dealing with dissenters
  • Gullible's travels
  • In the IMF fold - just
  • Democracy in action
  • Undiplomatic row
  • Seven more years
  • The timetable slips
  • Millennial crisis
  • That golden moment
  • Day of the locusts
  • Wayne Fredericks
  • Unlikely heirs
  • Collision course
  • Kofi asks for more
  • Now for the contest
  • The team on the Tagus
  • A very old connection
  • Good neighbours, bad neighbours
  • Spinning on the edge
  • The Tesler tapes
  • Swelling the great gas balloon
  • Accra ahead
  • Taya's travails
  • New twist
  • World Banker
  • Darfur's turning point
  • Success unseen
  • Cocoa wars
  • Long haul, slow progress
  • Transition on hold, again
  • Military matters
  • Price of peace
  • On the trail
  • Bingu's can of worms
  • New brooms
  • SWAPO in turmoil
  • Rude health
  • Splodges of wonga
  • Forty days
  • Don't criticise it, nationalise it!
  • Mistake in the Movement
  • Déby's dilemma
  • The cost of border tension
  • Massacre questions
  • On the bribe trail
  • Guns, gangs and oil
  • Parliament in sight
  • Caution, democrats at work
  • Deaths mount, time passes
  • Fighting the foreign front
  • The wrong planes
  • Investigation
  • Talking, at least
  • Chirac's man
  • Clay's feat
  • Caught out
  • Coming cleaner
  • Private estate
  • Gideon rising
  • Delta damages
  • On and on and on
  • The net widens
  • Smiles and shadows
  • 419, and counting
  • Military might
  • Chinese puzzle
  • HIPC Junction
  • No preference
  • No peace without justice
  • The limits of power
  • Newish start
  • Iraq first
  • Genocide watch
  • Tinkering with trouble
  • Too much sopi
  • Shell-shocked
  • At a crossroads
  • Fears of famine
  • Gas timetable
  • Gasmen
  • Anura Perera, an apology
  • Gas leak
  • Chez Ntemba spreads its wings
  • Send for Tintin
  • Fly me, I'm Moroni
  • Liberating the liberator
  • A very private war
  • Sam's man
  • Winners and losers
  • Did they vote for this?
  • The road from Nyala to El Geneina
  • A good deal missing
  • Peace without honour
  • The Kivus jolt Kinshasa, again
  • A long, long wait
  • Parallel universe
  • After Bakili, Bingu
  • Yes, guv
  • No turning back
  • The East needs oil
  • Fast buck, slow famine
  • The LRA fights on
  • People's power
  • Nairobi's nomenklatura
  • Fighting mighty magendo
  • For show
  • Dirty water
  • Diamond defamation
  • The family khaki
  • Closer and closer
  • Season of hate
  • Presidential prosecutions
  • Tragic contradictions
  • A rebel's story
  • Desperate Darfur
  • Maize-meal for votes
  • Plot news
  • Locking up the Minister
  • Sour Mango
  • Future shock
  • Disappearing food
  • Nepotists' nirvana
  • Brazzaville breakdown
  • Bingu the favourite
  • Troubled isles
  • Algerian bullets
  • Mass murder
  • A small success
  • Nujoma steps aside
  • Between the wars
  • End of an affair
  • Rebels all round
  • Registration rumpus
  • Kibaki's crowded diary
  • Rebirth pains
  • Losing Zengeza
  • Gunning for Mnangagwa
  • Of ranch and rupees
  • Election year
  • Two helpings of peace
  • Hear those drums
  • Diamond poker
  • Son of Sam
  • A new front opens
  • A flood of mud
  • The big men look to the future
  • Bad governance
  • Unsuitable friends
  • No cheques
  • Ugly contest
  • The old order please
  • The view from the Seine
  • The right wing explodes
  • Kraaling out of trouble
  • Mwai's moment
  • Work with sanctions
  • Price of silence
  • Whiter than white
  • Kabila reacts
  • Death in Darfur
  • Get with the programme
  • Unfinished business
  • Hasty engagement
  • The Congo factor
  • The new veterans march home
  • Pattni's list
  • True confessions
  • Out of funds
  • Oil, sweat and tears
  • To plot or not
  • Under arrest, again
  • After the phoney war
  • On trial for genocide
  • Starting again
  • Vote for the big bucks
  • Thabo's test
  • Aristide's lavalas
  • Vaulting ambition
  • Fraud and the Fund
  • Ruberwa's rift
  • Le Para moves east
  • A man for election seasons
  • Murder in Gambella
  • Gideon's bible
  • Who fired the missiles?
  • Malabo imbroglio
  • All in the family
  • Under-confident
  • End of empire
  • Still the boss
  • View of the Volta
  • Not Florida
  • Local heroes
  • Diamonds and danger
  • Gbagbo rides the tiger
  • Africa - where's that?
  • Death of a veteran
  • Peace at last
  • Presidential pranks
  • Carlos Cardoso
  • High price of kingship
  • A longer presidency
  • Luanda looks to Norway
  • Pretence of normality
  • Bringing back the British
  • Peering in
  • Tough nut to crack
  • Sanctions no problem
  • Undoing the rigging
  • It's party time
  • Still resisting
  • Conflict of interests
  • Open skies
  • Bonding in Brussels
  • Multi-party, single party
  • Mbeki mark two
  • Nice guy finishes first
  • A tale of two elections
  • Stuck in the sand
  • A nuclear waste
  • My country right and left
  • A bandwagon for change
  • Yes, Professor!
  • Walter's woes
  • Who's for the White House?
  • Fighting for peace
  • Losing friends
  • Blasts from the past
  • Wind in the rigging
  • Hard loans
  • The calabash bubbles
  • Gbagbo's next test
  • In the running
  • Those fatal cars
  • Military minders
  • Morgan versus Mugabe
  • Preferment
  • Bobodan's battles
  • Milosevic effect
  • Conditional offers
  • Going straight - again
  • Family affairs
  • Gadaffi's prime time
  • Oduduwa's children
  • Power and greed
  • High street havens
  • Laying off hands
  • Democratic deficit
  • Racist rage
  • Pride of lions
  • Policemen plod on
  • The new securocrats
  • A military makeover
  • Dropping Kabila
  • Duel in Khartoum
  • No room at the Security Council
  • Naming names
  • Dirty laundry
  • Bad timing
  • Kanu help?
  • Changing floors
  • Union is strength
  • Blame for the bombs
  • Gueï goes it alone
  • When push comes to shove
  • Economic battlefield
  • Social oil
  • Murderous border
  • A bell rings
  • Soldiers of misfortune
  • Playing the offside rule
  • Disproportional
  • Heavy commitments
  • Breakfast at the bank
  • A soldier's story
  • Platonically yours
  • John Vernon
  • Possible president
  • Under Kilimanjaro
  • Copper politics
  • Calling labour's bluff
  • Bemba's boys
  • A losing gamble
  • Transparency test
  • New frontiers
  • Look who's here!
  • Intimidation
  • Copper quarrels
  • Now the economic battle
  • War against peace
  • Tracking Angola's gems
  • Masters of war
  • Unity Gadaffi-style
  • Call the ex-marines
  • Cash yes, reform?
  • Moving goalposts
  • Talking left, acting right
  • The Bouteflika paradox
  • Multi-party Mugabe
  • Cross-border crisis
  • Kabbah in court
  • Death on the river
  • Hall of mirrors II
  • Under fire
  • Clean up for donors
  • The race to succeed
  • Cautious in Malawi
  • Too dry for crops
  • A tangled web
  • The bigger the better
  • From the other side
  • ZANU-PF's Pyrrhic victory
  • Time of reckoning
  • Time to talk
  • After Kisangani
  • Kérékou, no coup
  • The military-metropolitan team
  • The national question
  • He smiles and smiles
  • Hall of Mirrors
  • Godfather to the rebels
  • Glittering prizes II
  • ANC untamed
  • Take your medicine
  • Come in, it's private
  • Wade makes his mark
  • Mixed reviews
  • Kabbah, the survivor
  • Moving the mandate
  • Mission leap
  • In and out
  • Duty free
  • Cleaning up
  • Linking in the Luo
  • Force majeure
  • Glittering prizes from the war
  • Fishy business
  • East of Suez
  • As you were
  • Whitewashing reality
  • The lobbyists' list
  • Influence for sale
  • The battle for Freetown
  • Promises, promises
  • Gems and guns
  • Cheque in the post
  • Who's who in the NRM
  • One way street
  • A military trap
  • The region rumbles
  • Comrade Mugabe's last stand
  • Trouble in oil
  • Jettou set
  • Augean audit
  • Intrigue in Beirut
  • At the end of the Rainbow
  • Proxy wars and slaughter
  • The British connection
  • Hall of infamy
  • Soldiers go, plunderers stay
  • Whose land?
  • Squeezing Le Para
  • Papa Wemba's big band
  • Blowback
  • Babagate or floodgate
  • Anenih's irresistible rise
  • Rough diamonds
  • Peace dividend
  • Self-examination
  • A ten-year test
  • Double war
  • Millennial
  • Going for Glencore
  • Not too smart
  • Horse-trading
  • Scrambling for Africa
  • Nigeria's rag trade
  • Cottoning on to the WTO
  • The terror factor
  • Whose army?
  • Clinging to the cash box
  • Neutering UNITA
  • Joined-up aid
  • Retirement tent
  • KANU at war
  • Uranium trail
  • King and pawns
  • Our friends in the north
  • Leaving the quagmire
  • Corruption club
  • The nightmare scenario
  • Sins of omission
  • Judging Jerry
  • Desert shadows
  • Bombed out
  • Friends wanted
  • Deadly anniversary
  • Foregone conclusion
  • Inquiries, no answers
  • Fading Rainbow
  • And now the world
  • Bourguiba's ghost
  • L'effet Wade
  • Students shot
  • Conquests in Cairo
  • Guns and butter
  • Deferred
  • Post-KK traumas
  • King Oil, again
  • Military manoeuvres
  • Warlords at the gate
  • Togoïmi's Tactics
  • Radio silence
  • Bye bye Billy
  • Silencing the critics
  • The blame game
  • Other infernos
  • Bizimungu bust-up
  • Tables turned
  • Offshore, offside
  • Post-poll rumblings
  • Baker's big idea
  • Name and shame
  • Turning off the taps
  • All change
  • Hope from the north
  • Duet for donors
  • Early warning
  • Good-relief, debt-relief
  • Who's next?
  • Running on empty
  • Quarrelsome lobby
  • Killer floods
  • Offshore turbulence
  • Passion for change
  • Cleaning diamonds
  • Betting on the market
  • In God's name
  • Watching and waiting
  • Secret Pipeline
  • Phone operators
  • Fudge all round
  • Sparkling lobbyists
  • Ten years after, another revolution
  • Boutef rides his luck
  • Shaky movers
  • Hanging on
  • Hawks or doves?
  • Saying no to the yes-men
  • Positively 4th street
  • UN-convincing
  • Russian steal
  • Kaguta yekka!
  • Falling out, falling in
  • Down to work
  • Rape of the Nuba
  • The men in charge
  • Falling out, falling in
  • Too close
  • Rallying
  • Friends of Sani
  • Heading north
  • SWAPO steamroller
  • Unconstitutional
  • Mon général
  • 'Pre-humanitarian' surveillance
  • Not yet endgame
  • Bonding with the Broederbond
  • Water music
  • Saddam to Sharon
  • Volunteers?
  • Scot free
  • Deep drift
  • Peace talk, but is it real?
  • Strategic supplies
  • Impeachment
  • Running on empty
  • Paranoid or what?
  • Over the rainbow
  • Murky depths
  • On Blaise's trail
  • Presidential runners
  • Too much terror
  • Octopus at work
  • Oil slick
  • Murder again
  • Dicing with death
  • Helpless about AIDS
  • Honeymoon over
  • Going private against the grain
  • No shine on gold
  • Donor diplomacy
  • Everything is risky
  • Rising Ravalomanana
  • Offal and waffle
  • Santa's leopards
  • The focus shifts
  • Hard pressed
  • Bitter borders
  • Later rather than sooner
  • Maize power
  • Too close to call
  • No more handouts
  • Sweeping away
  • Armed and dangerous
  • Guns for hire again
  • No new order yet
  • The killing of Cain
  • Picking a fight
  • Brothers at war
  • Gems for the martyrs
  • Mkapa winds it up
  • Moving target
  • Doing the business
  • Pressing Patassé
  • Nujoma – the movie
  • Usama's allies
  • Desert fox
  • It's better abroad
  • Unknown soldiers
  • Don't confront, co-opt
  • Short-pants to no pants
  • Flag-waving, gun-running, all the conveniences
  • Old habits die hard
  • In absentia
  • Walk out
  • Piecemeal
  • Payback time
  • October evolution
  • Washington's new pragmatism
  • People's courts
  • Hagos heads home
  • Stuck again
  • Accident-prone
  • The re-election game
  • Islamism begins at home
  • Who's selling who?
  • The road to ruin
  • Fighting for Farmers
  • The other war
  • Boom boom
  • Poets and presidents
  • Not forgotten
  • Looking for clues
  • Post Sam, more Sam
  • Old guard, new guard
  • Local, global or both
  • Congress gets scratchy
  • Digging a hole
  • President, people, parties
  • Winning Biya mile
  • Stand to ATTention
  • Koma going
  • Dodgy dinars
  • Negating the negatives
  • Crackdown
  • Dialogue in Addis
  • Where Usama fits in
  • Everyone's catastrophe
  • Constitutional Conté
  • The Chile factor
  • Milingogate
  • Clean-up or cover-up
  • Bulyanhulu
  • In denial
  • Of tuna and tourists
  • By a whisker
  • Puppet or prince?
  • Mixed Marriage
  • Moi versus the economy
  • In need
  • No go NGO
  • Patassé's pals
  • Too good
  • Eastward Ho!
  • Home made, world class
  • Political famine
  • Blaise wins again
  • Muddying Machakos
  • Soldiers of tomorrow
  • Don't praise the lord
  • No immunity
  • Henry's parachute
  • Everyone likes parsley
  • I'm Sam, fly me
  • Buthelezi replays history
  • Uhuru now!
  • After the phoney war
  • Who is Sulaf?
  • Calling the shots at Machakos
  • Long wait
  • Birds of a feather
  • Waiting for the call
  • Next, please
  • Reality checks
  • Sustainable soup
  • A sort of peace
  • Murky waters
  • How Sharia spread
  • Shariacracy on trial
  • A la carte
  • Scant aid for AIDS
  • Northern Lights
  • Part of the union
  • Levy at war
  • Last of the dinosaurs
  • Bouteflika digs in
  • Harvesting souls
  • Ben Ali for a fourth
  • Banking blunders
  • Beware false profits
  • Fuelling conflict
  • Hey big spender
  • Après Moi, maybe
  • Unions fight privatisation ideology
  • Sell if you can
  • Hanging in there
  • Possession in nine points
  • Keeping them talking
  • Delusions of peace
  • Wage inflation
  • Carrots for Kinshasa
  • Fame and famine
  • Of rice and rings
  • Seconds out
  • Disarmed but not demobbed
  • Inside the tent
  • The voters' friend
  • Some winners and losers
  • Banker versus banker
  • What's left of the opposition
  • End of an Alliance
  • Pohamba steps up
  • Family at war
  • Going Dutch
  • Gems to oil
  • Replaying the aid game
  • Jail to the chief
  • Roller-coaster rand
  • Kaiser's bill
  • Strong scent
  • Silencing the guns
  • Ancien régime
  • Cobalt crunch
  • Not yet Uhuru!
  • And the arms flow on
  • Who's who in Sassou's Congo
  • By other means
  • Blood from stones
  • Banking on the donors
  • Whose peace bonanza?
  • Climbing to the summit
  • Caught out
  • Steal community
  • Fixing it up
  • Bank accountability
  • Friends and neighbours
  • A war unwon
  • He's back
  • Rightist regime
  • Holding their noses
  • Cabinet making
  • Kabbah's cabal
  • Hungry for change
  • Polling in peace
  • Separate & sovereign
  • Unstable
  • Behind the partition
  • Interregnum
  • Two to tango
  • The fire does not cease
  • Mbeki's front line
  • Will the real Thabo Mbeki stand up?
  • Cobalt cash
  • Recycled general
  • The Carlos card
  • Who's got the money?
  • Wade's wide world
  • UN gumshoes in Taylorland
  • Rebels without a plan
  • Khaki blues, business suits
  • The Generals' election
  • Nervy
  • Transition to where?
  • Zero-rated
  • Post-summit blues
  • Hunting lobby
  • Who's who in the military plots
  • Murder, pillage, scandal
  • Politics dead or alive
  • 2003 starts here
  • Les jeux sont faits
  • Conditionally yours
  • Gadaffi's big tent
  • Crimes against the state
  • Grit that glitters
  • Multi-party
  • Friends abroad, foes at home
  • Anglo accused
  • Map meets compass
  • The last summit
  • UN manoeuvres
  • Asian interests
  • Missing Badme
  • Anti-Kagame alliance
  • An edited peace
  • Murder in Yendi
  • Purging again
  • Who killed Laurent?
  • Sundown
  • Wanaharakati and kuffar
  • Decision time in Dar
  • No mistake
  • Succession rumble
  • Compassion fatigue
  • Gun law
  • The other General
  • More petro-nairas
  • Cart before horse
  • Spot the difference
  • From Russia with debt
  • Black gold flows
  • Banking breakdowns
  • Too many defects
  • Refugee voices
  • Star-struck
  • The military might?
  • Following Festus
  • Kagame under siege
  • Financial squeeze on KANU bosses
  • Drive my tractor
  • Minimal contracts
  • Precarious calm
  • Dark prospect
  • With or without Riek
  • One musketeer
  • Of mud and men
  • The Mobutu factor
  • Plot and panic
  • Fraud storm
  • The Blair mission
  • The military-financial complex
  • The hand of Lucifer
  • Authoritarian urge
  • Mobile bank
  • Got your number
  • Follow me, follow
  • Wade's blue wave
  • Political eclipse
  • Ole Kufuor!
  • Lev Leviev takes on De Beers
  • Who blinks first?
  • Independence vote
  • Brothers Nguema
  • Disbelief
  • Lost hope
  • Queuing for influence
  • In the lobbies
  • After Sam, maybe
  • Unending endgame
  • The old-timers
  • The new foreign legion
  • Recamping out
  • Talking to Jonas
  • Home and away
  • Exit top brass
  • The plots thicken
  • Storm after the storm
  • War economy
  • A hundred days of Kufuor
  • Cash and carry
  • Oiling the daggers
  • The man from uncle
  • Starting from scratch
  • The two-is-enough group
  • The cock crows
  • Talks break down
  • Sniping at the President
  • More of Mugabe
  • AC Political Map
  • Peace from above
  • Fresh start for old faces
  • Not warring but warning
  • Peace deals and petro-wealth
  • Ten years after
  • New Year party
  • Next year in Paris
  • Tension at the top
  • Risky dealings
  • No change there, then
  • Dead men tell tales
  • The language of weapons
  • The cost of Mugabe
  • Kibaki, Keriri and allies
  • One year under the Rainbow
  • Reforms, risks and rumblings
  • We interrupt . . .
  • Missing airline
  • Urban guerrillas
  • Chilling out Chiluba
  • Cleaned out
  • Armed and angry
  • After the war economy
  • Peace or bust
  • Colonel Kizza's story
  • Military muscle, political problems
  • Entente partiale
  • Plots galore
  • Dirty deals
  • Settling Sassou
  • Death knocks twice
  • Caution, lobbies at work
  • Brown bounces back
  • Leave it to Sally
  • Rules of law
  • Ungracious winner
  • City under siege
  • Enemy's enemy
  • Pax Luanda
  • Politics before economics
  • Stalemate
  • Grabbing at growth
  • Chairman Moi
  • Whose best friend?
  • Heading for the door
  • Tote that barge
  • Back in Brazza
  • Pals with Pal
  • Levy's trials
  • Risky money
  • Algeria's growing military machine
  • Cross-border pressures
  • Alternating currents
  • The nomenklatura
  • On the knife-edge
  • Whose masquerade?
  • Meles the winner
  • Rose thou art sick
  • Spooky
  • Third time unlucky
  • Jumping Jammeh
  • Generals, tontons and kidogos
  • Slow, slow
  • A stake in the oil war
  • Opening new fronts in the oil war
  • Against Arusha
  • Free Falcone
  • Acts of God
  • Question of survival
  • The cost of Kabbah
  • Even more intelligent
  • Market failure
  • Catching the boat
  • Party games
  • Bretton Woods at Dunsinane
  • Cat and mouse
  • The other Tanzanite
  • Money for mercs?
  • Branch office
  • Blitzing the banks
  • African energy
  • 'Making politics and war together'
  • Oilfield, battlefield
  • Election arithmetic
  • Good news for some
  • How many UNITAs?
  • Death, not peace
  • Uncharted waters
  • 106 Executions
  • Graça gets ready
  • Crossed lines
  • High stakes at Sun City
  • Rebels versus rebels
  • New rebels, new danger
  • Who's after Ali?
  • Unconstructive engagement
  • Back to gaol
  • Dialogue de sourds
  • Peace budget
  • Revolution revisited
  • Gim-Gema in Ethiopia
  • Winter in Asmara
  • Hope springs eternal
  • Wrong number, again
  • Not so slick
  • Le Petit looks good
  • Austin Amissah
  • Not so nutty
  • World record?
  • Arms for oblivion
  • Go north, Ould Taya!
  • Saved by the cash
  • How high the summit
  • Winners and losers in Angolagate
  • Saying yes, saying no
  • Trading places
  • Family fiefs
  • A right royal putsch
  • Designer diplomacy
  • Down the mine, down the drain
  • Levy limps in
  • The barricades again
  • Airport turf wars
  • Watch on the spooks
  • New parties, new plots
  • Torrents of trouble
  • In a word
  • Stirring
  • L'arbitraire
  • Bio's bio
  • Bear markets
  • Under the volcano
  • Russian roulette
  • The generation game
  • Managing foreign affairs
  • Crossing the Limpopo
  • Murdering sleep
  • Raelity
  • Doing the splits
  • A not-so-fresh start
  • Busy Presidents
  • New Year hopes
  • Conflicting agendas
  • Our American friends
  • Leaders who retire, leaders who don't
  • Do not pass go
  • Surrender!
  • Don't RSVP
  • BEE is for business
  • No melting pot
  • Luanda's money-go-round
  • Holding the cash
  • Marching to Masvingo
  • Not franc
  • Pharaoh speaks
  • Ciao João
  • Brief honeymoon
  • Laurent's legacy
  • The war moves north
  • The pro-consuls decide
  • Congo-Kinshasa: Kabila est mort, vive Kabila!
  • Jobs for Jak
  • Big brother
  • Third term lucky
  • How high the moon?
  • Revolving doors
  • Congo imbroglio
  • Mixed fortunes
  • Industry and Islamism
  • The centre isn't holding
  • Accords and aggravations
  • A defining terror
  • Succession issues
  • From crisis to crisis
  • Free voting, united opposition... Surely some mistake?
  • Mwai and Moi make history
  • A coup that wasn't
  • Polio politics
  • Money, perhaps
  • Al Qaida warning
  • New hopes, new dangers
  • Taylor's shadow
  • Gaius says goodbye
  • Politics get crude
  • The best money can buy
  • No chance, Mr President
  • Foundation stoned
  • Rallying round
  • Cable controversy
  • Coordinates
  • Gatsha bites back
  • Fradique's new front
  • Foul play
  • The Unbwogables
  • On the mend
  • Coming out of the closet
  • Royal echoes
  • Minister in peril
  • Bum steer
  • Playing by the rules
  • Poison and bankruptcy
  • Jacques is back
  • Enter Bozizé
  • Landing in trouble
  • Out for the Conté
  • Hamutenya in the blocks
  • Oil empires
  • The new American way
  • Catching the flak
  • Boom to bust
  • Delta force
  • War spreads
  • Votes and gaols
  • Up for grabs
  • Hard-core Gbagbo
  • Unity's opponents
  • Victory is not enough
  • Soccer war, Congo war
  • The great U-turn
  • Faux EO?
  • Licence to kill
  • Odious debt
  • North-south divide
  • The big issues
  • Bamako blues
  • The quiet pro-American
  • Win the war, lose the peace
  • Deeper and deeper
  • Is Gato going?
  • Reluctant Herero
  • No deal
  • Oiling the palm trees
  • Rebel forces, market forces
  • The oil offensive, continued
  • Saving salvation
  • A victory for the generals
  • Musyoka's message
  • El Jefe reshuffles
  • A long march
  • The battle in the states
  • Killing fields
  • Outgunning the opposition
  • Said and unsaid
  • The blame game
  • Model justice, for some
  • Beg, borrow and steal
  • Succession for sale
  • This land is our land
  • Lomé abstention
  • Conclave expectations
  • Cutting-edge diplomacy
  • Presidential stakes
  • Split parties, stout leaders
  • No end to the affair
  • Roll out the barrel
  • Monitoring minefield
  • Back-door deals
  • Another Addis agreement?
  • Peace in our time
  • Bedding down
  • So, farewell then
  • Media attrition
  • The gift horse's mouth
  • Going Dutch
  • Missing the goals
  • Warriors and marabouts
  • An awkward embrace
  • Spies pop out of the past
  • Le grand retour
  • Breaching the peace
  • Security blanket
  • Atlantic crossing
  • The Ituri militias
  • Nobody's moving
  • How the Ghana talks stalled
  • Weird scenes inside the gold-mine
  • Getting away with it
  • Oppressive and totalitarian
  • Get a move on
  • The Fund's no fun
  • Kidnapped II
  • Kidnapped I
  • Mogae plays the Khama card
  • Leaving the door open
  • The nearly government
  • Diplomacy central
  • Meltdown in Monrovia
  • Democratic doubts
  • Tackling Taylor
  • Wood for the trees
  • Drummed out
  • Buyoya's boys
  • Getting rid of Muluzi
  • Looking down the line
  • Generals on the hill
  • Landslide in the Delta
  • The naira republic wins again
  • Losses to West and Central African cotton producers
  • Walter's woes II
  • Murder in paradise
  • Yala's unlamented end
  • Saharan desserts
  • Main Western and Central African cotton producers (2002-2003)
  • Where next for the WTO?
  • Zamtrop and the politicians
  • Watching Big Brother
  • Model reformer stumbles
  • In come the vigilantes
  • Facing Mount Kenya
  • Murder most foul, again
  • Fighting on
  • Desperados
  • Regression
  • Kenya: Virtue unrewarded
  • Who loses?
  • A can of subsidised worms
  • Slow to go
  • NePAD doubts mount up
  • Sticky US relations
  • Peacekeepers and peers
  • Boundary boobytraps
  • War on England
  • War drift
  • Not welcome
  • Delta force
  • Dr Faustus, I presume
  • Another year, another plot
  • Rabat's regional security web
  • Saharan box of tricks
  • Butter on those guns
  • BAE's role in SA's big arms deal
  • Struggling to succeed
  • Count and discount
  • Voiceless
  • Tout sauf Gbagbo?
  • High dudgeon summit
  • Domestic politics at last
  • Hands across the water
  • More guns, please
  • Horse-trading, arms-trading
  • Who's next?
  • Musical chairs
  • Cotton tales
  • Democracy at stake
  • Un-rapid reaction
  • No cash, no court
  • Five-yearly farce
  • NARCotic
  • Pius and power
  • What's next?
  • Getting to know the Colonel again
  • Spinning the continent
  • A line in the sand
  • Father and son
  • Lions and hyenas
  • Opening the books
  • Money in the pipeline
  • Battle for Bunia
  • Sticking points
  • Leaky and unlucky
  • Where next?
  • Who loses under Guebuza
  • Guebuza blues
  • Sacking the veep
  • Finally, an election
  • It's all in the family
  • Kazini goes back to school
  • Both sides lose
  • Zuma's other hotspot
  • Arta I, Arta II
  • Abandoned children
  • See you in court?
  • Winkling out Taylor
  • Deals in the West, war in the East
  • Ties that bind
  • No French leave
  • Paris plotters
  • Peace or what?
  • Friends new and old
  • Background to Brenthurst
  • Busy bees
  • Mob rule
  • Crises to come
  • Basri's heirs
  • A victory foretold
  • Winning hearts and budgets