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David Pilling is the Africa editor of the Financial Times. He was previously Asia editor and also formerly Tokyo Bureau Chief for the FT from January 2002 to August 2008. His column ranges over business, investment, politics and economics.

He joined the FT in 1990. He has worked in London as an editor, in Chile and Argentina as a correspondent and covered the global pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry.

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  • Friday, 26 February, 2021
    FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
    US bond selloff, ex-Petrobras chief hits back, Ghana’s vaccines

    A violent sell-off in US government bonds ricocheted through markets on Thursday

  • Thursday, 25 February, 2021
    Covid-19 vaccines
    Africa will pay more for Russian Covid vaccine than ‘western’ jabs

    Pricing undermines Moscow’s claim that it is supplying poor countries with cheaper vaccines

  • Thursday, 25 February, 2021
    Africa
    Africanfuturism is partly an attempt to grapple with the past

    Cultural movement’s search for an alternative future can look to the achievements of African history

  • Wednesday, 24 February, 2021
    Covid-19 vaccines
    Ghana becomes first country to receive free Covax vaccines

    African officials complain of delay in delivery to other member states

  • Friday, 19 February, 2021
    Covid-19 vaccines
    G7 leaders vow to boost vaccine supplies to developing world

    Rich nations increase Covax pledges but US less certain on when to share ‘surplus’ doses

  • Friday, 19 February, 2021
    Tanzania
    Tanzania looks to divine providence as government shuns Covid vaccines

    President John Magufuli’s stance not only endangers its citizens but the world, health experts warn

  • Thursday, 18 February, 2021
    World Bank
    Senegal’s ex-finance minister to head World Bank’s private sector unit

    Makhtar Diop’s appointment at International Finance Corporation cements good month for African international diplomacy

  • Monday, 15 February, 2021
    South Africa
    South African scientists on pandemic’s frontline

    Decision to halt AstraZeneca roll-out highlights vital role played by country’s experts

  • Sunday, 14 February, 2021
    Renewable energy
    Africa infrastructure bank looks forward to greener future

    Lagos-based development bank aims to widen investor pool through move into renewables

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  • Friday, 12 February, 2021
    Covid-19 vaccines
    Can Covax deliver the vaccines much of the world needs?

    The WHO-backed programme aims to provide 2bn doses in 2021 but deliveries are yet to start

  • Thursday, 11 February, 2021
    Covid-19 vaccines
    African countries unsure whether to use Oxford/AstraZeneca jab

    Conflicting advice about Covid vaccine’s efficacy against variant has bred uncertainty

  • Thursday, 11 February, 2021
    The Big Read
    Vaccines vs variants: the race to immunise the developing world

    The spread of new Covid strains has made it even more urgent to launch rapid vaccination programmes in poorer countries

  • Tuesday, 9 February, 2021
    Covid-19 vaccines
    South Africa forced to overhaul vaccine plan over variant fears

    Concerns over AstraZeneca efficacy against mutation prompt about-turn with global repercussions

  • Sunday, 7 February, 2021
    Covid-19 vaccines
    Oxford/AstraZeneca jab fails to prevent mild and moderate Covid from S African strain, study shows

    Impact on hospitalisations and deaths caused by variant not yet determined, according to preliminary findings

  • Thursday, 4 February, 2021
    Bribery and corruption
    Beny Steinmetz case shows how hard it is to prove corruption

    The Guinea mining scandal illustrates the ease with which officials can sell their nation’s treasure

  • Tuesday, 2 February, 2021
    Covid-19 vaccines
    African countries look beyond west for vaccines

    Continent turns to China and Russia to supplement WHO-backed Covax initiative for developing nations

  • Sunday, 31 January, 2021
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Covid deaths in Africa higher than official count, Zambia study suggests

    Research from Lusaka morgue points to routine undercounting of fatalities

  • Wednesday, 27 January, 2021
    Travel
    Xigera, the Versailles of the African bush

    An exclusive first look at Botswana’s grand new safari camp — a spectacular monument to a travel industry tycoon

  • Tuesday, 26 January, 2021
    Special ReportSudan after the revolution
    Sudan faces hard road to democracy as revolutionary euphoria fades

    Transitional government contends with a bankrupt economy and the perilous process of easing the military from power

  • Tuesday, 26 January, 2021
    Special ReportSudan after the revolution
    Fragile Sudan seeks to stabilise foreign relations

    Western allies are prepared to back efforts for democracy, and hopes run high for a sympathetic Biden administration

  • Tuesday, 26 January, 2021
    Special ReportSudan after the revolution
    Sudan loses out on wealth from gum arabic harvest

    European producers monopolise the value of one of the country’s biggest exports

  • Tuesday, 26 January, 2021
    Special ReportSudan after the revolution
    Three men who hold Sudan’s fate in their hands

    After a revolution in which women played a major role, the trio have emerged as crucial — and competing — forces of the transition

  • Thursday, 21 January, 2021
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Unequal vaccine access will return to haunt the rich

    As developed countries race to roll out Covid-19 jabs, poorer nations fear they are missing out

  • Wednesday, 20 January, 2021
    World
    Museveni’s grip on Uganda: ‘he doesn’t believe in change’

    The longstanding president won a sixth term amid allegations of vote-rigging, corruption, and nepotism

  • Friday, 15 January, 2021
    Person in the News
    Bobi Wine, a tenacious challenger set on power in Uganda

    During his campaign, Africa’s ‘ghetto president’ has been beaten and thrown in jail more times than he can recall

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