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    • Monday, 29 May, 2023
      Nigeria
      Economy and insecurity top agenda for Nigeria’s new president

      Bola Tinubu will face an overflowing in-tray following his inauguration on Monday

    • Friday, 26 May, 2023
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      The cigar-chomping ‘Kissinger’ behind Africa’s mission to end Ukraine war

      Veteran fixer Jean-Yves Ollivier brokers an improbable plan to take six of the continent’s leaders to Moscow and Kyiv

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      FT-Statista’s top 100, plus: global shocks test continent’s resilience; Nigeria leads; DRC solar offers hope; Egypt must reform to build on success stories; healthcare rises to dialysis challenge; the drive to digital; investors who do their research

    • Thursday, 25 May, 2023
      Ziad Bahaa Eldin
      Egypt must face reality and reform to build on its success stories

      The need is to transform the minority of successful Egyptian companies into an overwhelming majority

    • Thursday, 25 May, 2023
      Special ReportAfrica’s Fastest Growing Companies
      Global shocks put Africa’s resilient spirit to the test

      Entrepreneurial flair continues to be key feature of continent’s economic dynamism

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      Fast-growing companies thrive despite high inflation, chronic shortage of dollars and difficulties accessing foreign investment

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      Studious investors stand to benefit from opportunities in Africa

      Discerning fund managers say the continent can provide lucrative and stable returns

    • Monday, 22 May, 2023
      Hanan Morsy
      Africa needs international help to avoid a lost decade

      The region has been buffeted by shocks — but there are three multilateral policy shifts that can support it

    • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
      David Pilling
      South Africa and the limits of having it both ways

      Pretoria wants to be both a democracy with a progressive constitution and a friend to dictators

    • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
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      Eskom chief warns South Africans to prepare for worst-ever blackouts

      Country told to expect a ‘difficult winter’ with outages that could last as long as 16 hours

    • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
      Ghana
      Ghana secures $3bn IMF deal after creditors agree to debt restructuring

      China, which is owed $1.5bn, among those that reached agreement on resolving long-running economic crisis

    • Wednesday, 17 May, 2023
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      Diplomatic crisis over alleged arms shipments to Russia threatens Pretoria’s prized tariff-free trade access

    • Sunday, 14 May, 2023
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      How Ghana’s economy became a cautionary tale for Africa

      The decline of a regional champion rings alarm bells for other countries on the continent that overspent when debt was cheap

    • Wednesday, 10 May, 2023
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      Sudan conflict delivers fresh blow to China’s African lending strategy

      Beijing’s loans to Sudan at risk as Chinese lenders hit by series of defaults across continent

    • Sunday, 7 May, 2023
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    • Tuesday, 2 May, 2023
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      List of 100 shows that sectors from fintech to renewable energy to healthcare managed to develop their businesses while much of the world shut down

    • Monday, 1 May, 2023
      Ghana
      Ghana’s government to stop borrowing from central bank

      ‘Zero financing’ agreement deal with finance ministry helps pave way for $3bn IMF bailout

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    • Sunday, 16 April, 2023
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      Fund’s regional chief says a ‘Gleneagles-like moment’ is required to agree desperately needed reforms

    • Friday, 14 April, 2023
      FT SeriesDebt deadlock
      Ghana default puts domestic debt ‘can of worms’ in the spotlight

      IMF insists for first time that a government must deal with local creditors before it will approve a bailout

    • Wednesday, 12 April, 2023
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    • Monday, 10 April, 2023
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      Accra’s finance minister is optimistic foreign governments will agree on debt relief deal

    • Friday, 7 April, 2023
      News in-depthSouth Africa
      ‘Everything is being stripped and stolen’: South Africa’s run-down city of gold

      Wealthy residents flee Johannesburg as it descends into lawlessness and infrastructural collapse

    • Thursday, 6 April, 2023
      Tunisia
      Tunisia stokes fears of economic collapse after rejecting IMF ‘diktats’

      President Kais Saied says conditions imposed by lender will lead to greater poverty

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