Africa

news by category: Africa

Found 843 articles.

Vol 63 No 17 |

CHINA
AFRICA

Beijing turns around on debt

25th August 2022

China's decision to waive repayment of 23 interest-free loans owed by 17 African countries and redirect $10 billion of its International Monetary Fund (IMF) reserves to the contine...

Vol 63 No 16 |

INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
AFRICA

Economic cooperation falters as growth set to fall again

29th July 2022

Hit by the pandemic and war, the most plausible forecasts for the global economy are bad or even worse, says the IMF

Two over-arching challenges dominate the global economy: how to cut inflation without triggering recession and cooperating on restructuring debt in emerging and developing economie...

Vol 63 No 16 |

UNITED STATES
AFRICA

Washington in summit race with Moscow

27th July 2022

President Biden organises his African leaders' meeting for mid-December while President Putin delays his grand conference until mid-2023

As geopolitical tensions rise, the tally of Africa summits is mounting – with grand conferences with the continent's leaders being organised this year by the European Union, ...

DISPATCHES

Vol 63 No 16 |

President Macron and Foreign Minister Lavrov vie for influence in pan-African tours this week

26th July 2022

Russia and its western rivals are ratcheting up the blame game over deepening international financial and production crises

On parallel tracks across Africa, this week France and Russia are trying to win the information war over which state or alliance of states is responsible for the galloping food, fe...

READ FOR FREE

Vol 63 No 15 |

INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
AFRICA

Fund shores up internationalism

21st July 2022

Reacting to diplomatic stalemates at the UN Security Council and the G20, the IMF is becoming the international forum of last resort – on debt, climate finance and the spillo...

DISPATCHES

Vol 63 No 15 |

AFRICA
UNCTAD

UN urges African economies to prioritise trade diversification efforts and fintech investment

20th July 2022

More local processing and value-added are critical to boost growth and meet jobs demand from the youth

After over three decades of trade liberalisation, African economies are among the most open in the world but their export bases remain among the most specialised. This lack of dive...

READ FOR FREE

DISPATCHES

Vol 63 No 14 |

AFRICA
G7

Western leaders focus on Ukraine but offer little aid for war's economic damage

30th June 2022

German-hosted G7 summit ramps up sanctions on Moscow and suspends green energy transition timetable

A US$600 billion package of infrastructure funding from the European Union and the United States emerged as the headline deal for Africa and other developing regions at the G7 indu...

READ FOR FREE

DISPATCHES

Vol 63 No 13 |

AFRICA
COMMONWEALTH

Political intrigue and economic recession haunt Kigali summit

21st June 2022

After a four-year gap Commonwealth leaders meet in Rwanda amid fresh questions about the organisation's purpose and legitimacy

Every Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) prompts its own soul-searching, together with confident predictions that its 54 members will agree that this colonial-based o...

READ FOR FREE

DISPATCHES

Vol 63 No 13 |

Key Putin ally Prigozhin loses appeal on Wagner mercenary sanctions

14th June 2022

Geopolitical rivalries are driving courtroom fights against Moscow's allies linked to private security and mining operations in conflict zones in Africa

The European Court of Justice's rejection of an appeal against sanctions by Kremlin favourite Yevgeny Prigozhin, who controls private military contractor the Wagner Group, will com...

READ FOR FREE

Vol 63 No 13 |

AFRICA
BRITAIN

Gaps in Glencore's guilty plea

23rd June 2022

By pleading guilty in Britain and the United States to grand corruption and paying out some US$1.5 billion in penalties, commodity giant Glencore has been trying to draw a line und...

SEARCH

Become a subscriber today to read our articles in full.

Find out more

Issue archive

Looking for a specific issue? Search our online archive of over two decades of Africa Confidential

Volume:

Number:

Join the mailing list

Not yet ready to subscribe to Africa Confidential? Register instead for our free email alerts service.

Receive a snapshot of the latest issue and inter-issue articles and country analysis as they are published.

Africa

news by category: Africa

DISPATCHES

DISPATCHES

DISPATCHES

DISPATCHES

DISPATCHES

Stories by country