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      Mali
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      Islamist group exploits security vacuum to prevent food and medicine from reaching Mali city

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      Vera Songwe
      A new Afro-Indian trade partnership is a huge opportunity for both

      Arriving at a formal agreement could have massively beneficial economic consequences

      Narendra Modi at the G20 summit in New Delhi. India and Africa, with their increasing incomes and population trends, could be significant markets in the green and digital future
    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
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      Political crisis shakes Senegal’s image of stability in a volatile region

      West African county hit by unrest and allegations of a political witch hunt ahead of a bitterly contested presidential vote

      Protesters march through the streets of Dakar with a portrait of Senegal opposition leader Ousmane Sonko
    • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Libya’s flood disaster was partly man-made

      Western governments should focus on supporting efforts to stabilise the country

      A survivor sits on the rubble of a destroyed building in Libya’s eastern city of Derna on September 18
    • Monday, 18 September, 2023
      News in-depthLibya
      ‘Brothers to the rescue’: Devastated Libyans search for survivors and answers

      A week after Storm Daniel, residents of Derna are still reeling from the destruction

      Fire and rescue brigades search for survivors: authorities have not communicated an official death toll as the scale of the disaster complicates the rescue mission
    • Monday, 18 September, 2023
      Special ReportThe Future of Banking
      India points the way to digital access across Africa

      Bill Gates is among the supporters who say DPI is key to reducing poverty but critics warn civil liberties could be at risk

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    • Saturday, 16 September, 2023
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      Catastrophic Libyan flooding fuelled by warming oceans

      An intense cyclone known as a ‘medicane’ led to more than 400mm of rain falling in 24 hours

    • Friday, 15 September, 2023
      News in-depthLibya
      ‘All should resign’: Derna disaster unleashes wave of anger in Libya

      Citizens vent at officials who ignored warnings while the authorities look to absolve themselves of blame

      People walk past damaged houses in Derna, Libya,
    • Friday, 15 September, 2023
      Person in the News
      Mohammed VI: Morocco’s monarch faces an earthquake-hit country

      The reserved king is trying to show he is in control following the most devastating tremor in 60 years

      A man in glasses and a dark-blue turban stands amid a background of a graphic shockwave and cracked concrete and a green pentagram from Morocco’s flag
    • Friday, 15 September, 2023
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      Boom in ‘sustainable’ debt fuels scrutiny of green labels

      Many deals fund polluters or projects unrelated to climate goals as banks chase trillion-dollar environmental finance targets

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    • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
      Richard Shirreff
      Western security depends on rebuilding Morocco

      Ukraine has shown that we cannot afford to be complacent about the threats spreading from the region

      A woman walks through the rubble next to her donkey as she tries to rescue her goat after this week’s deadly earthquake in Morocco
    • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
      David Pilling
      A fire in South Africa symbolises an entire system gone up in flames

      The blaze in Johannesburg tells a story of xenophobia, urban neglect and political dysfunction

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    • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
      Libya
      Libya flood victims buried in mass graves as anger builds over failed defences

      At least 5,500 people killed by disaster that devastated eastern city of Derna

      A digger stands next to the grave. The bodies are contained in white coverings
    • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
      The best books of the week
      Eighteen Days in October — how Israel turned the tide

      An enthralling account with contemporary resonance examines how Israel regained the initiative in 1973’s Yom Kippur war

    • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
      Libya
      More than 5,000 bodies recovered in Libya flood disaster

      Death toll expected to rise after Storm Daniel devastates eastern city

      Men walk in the rubble of buildings destroyed by flooding in Derna, eastern Libya
    • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
      Libya
      Libya’s divisions exposed in city laid waste by floods

      Recovery and rebuilding efforts hampered by country’s chaotic and fractured politics

      An overturned car among rubble next to a damaged building following a storm in Derna, Libya on September 12 2023
    • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
      Darlington Akogo
      Accra provides lessons on how to run an AI start-up

      Scepticism towards artificial intelligence is to be expected but young Africans increasingly realise that can be overcome

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    • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
      Morocco
      Morocco vows to rebuild as hopes fade for more earthquake survivors

      Government wants IMF and World Bank meetings set for Marrakech next month to proceed

      Damaged buildings in Marrakech’s Medina
    • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
      Natural disasters
      10,000 missing as floods hit Libya after Storm Daniel

      Large parts of coastal city of Derna swept away after dams burst

      A man in flood-hit Derna
    • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
      Sovereign bonds
      Ten lessons from Zambia’s (incomplete) restructuring 

      Unfortunately, they might not apply elsewhere though

    • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
      Dance
      Kizomba culture is a life-enhancing expression of Angola’s diaspora

      The Kizomba Design Museum festival in São Paulo celebrated the dance, music and more created in Portugal’s former colonies

      Two women dance together in a street; behind them other couples are dancing
    • Monday, 11 September, 2023
      Middle East & North Africa
      Libya flooding leaves hundreds feared dead

      Storm Daniel crosses Mediterranean to strike north African coast, with reports of dam bursts causing devastation in city of Derna

      Vehicles piled up along a coastal road in Derna, Libya
    • Monday, 11 September, 2023
      Morocco
      Morocco gives no response to French offer to join quake rescue efforts

      Apparent diplomatic snub comes after Rabat welcomes help from other countries

      People look at ruined buildings after the earthquae
    • Monday, 11 September, 2023
      News in-depthMorocco
      ‘Completely destroyed’: Morocco’s mountain villages count human cost of earthquake

      The remote High Atlas region has borne the brunt of the most powerful quake to strike the country in 120 years

      A man walks past damaged buildings in Ouirgane, Morocco
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