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    Africa Editor

    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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    • Wednesday, 22 March, 2023
      OutlookAfrica
      In drought-stricken Kenya, dead livestock tell of livelihoods lost

      The pastoralists of Wajir county have been forced to abandon their itinerant lifestyle for lack of fresh pasture

    • Friday, 10 March, 2023
      Africa special
      Nuruddin Farah: ‘I can live without my books. They make their own friends’

      The Somali novelist on his ambiguous relationship with his homeland, embracing radical secularism — and why he refuses to tolerate intolerance

    • Thursday, 2 March, 2023
      The Big Read
      Scandal at South Africa’s Eskom: the CEO and the cyanide-laced coffee

      The attempted poisoning of André de Ruyter is a dramatic example of how criminality has seeped into the country’s state

    • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
      South African politics
      South Africa’s Russia stance shows it has lost the moral high ground

      From ethical non-aligned foreign policy, Pretoria has shifted to a might-is-right position

    • Wednesday, 22 February, 2023
      FT CollectionsNigeria presidential election 2023
      Nigerian elections: How Peter Obi disrupted a two-horse race

      The relative political newcomer has electrified young voters, rattled his rivals and made the outcome of this week’s contest much harder to predict

    • Friday, 17 February, 2023
      News in-depthNatural disasters
      From Haiti to Japan, what happens after film crews leave disaster zones?

      An inadequate response to tremors, storms or tsunamis can topple governments

    • Thursday, 9 February, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Migrants by Sam Miller — rethinking migration

      A new book argues that migration is core to the human experience

    • Thursday, 9 February, 2023
      FT SeriesRussia in Africa
      How Russia’s propaganda machine is reshaping the African narrative

      Moscow taps into continent’s frustrations and historic solidarity with Soviet Union to spread its version of events

    • Tuesday, 7 February, 2023
      FT SeriesRussia in Africa
      How Moscow bought a new sphere of influence on the cheap

      Focusing on a strip of countries from Mali to Sudan, it is challenging the west and opening what some call a ‘second front’

    • Tuesday, 24 January, 2023
      FT CollectionsNigeria presidential election 2023
      Nigeria’s elite trade pre-election verbal blows with ex-president Obasanjo

      Bola Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar are frontrunners to be next leader of country of 210mn people

    • Friday, 20 January, 2023
      Nigerian elections
      Nigerian democracy still has a pulse

      February’s presidential election has the potential to be a significant turning point

    • Wednesday, 18 January, 2023
      House & Home
      How to create a city

      Entrepreneurs are planning autonomous ‘charter cities’ as an answer to Africa’s rapid population growth

    • Monday, 16 January, 2023
      US foreign policy
      Yellen to visit African countries as US steps up overtures

      Washington is seeking to entice nations away from financial and resource ties to China

    • Sunday, 15 January, 2023
      Tigray
      War in Tigray may have killed 600,000 people, peace mediator says

      Conflict came to an end after two years of fighting and was marked by waves of violence against civilians

    • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
      News in-depthSouth Africa
      Assassination attempt underscores criminal hold over S Africa’s Eskom

      Alleged attempt to kill chief executive André de Ruyter shows challenges he has faced in rooting out corruption

    • Monday, 9 January, 2023
      South Africa
      Ramaphosa pledges to move control of Eskom to South Africa’s energy ministry

      Plan highlights battle over power producer, whose outgoing chief suffered recent attempted poisoning

    • Sunday, 8 January, 2023
      Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd
      Boss of South African power producer Eskom survived poisoning attempt in December

      André de Ruyter, who resigned after trying to overhaul the troubled utility, claims he was given cyanide-laced coffee

    • Sunday, 1 January, 2023
      South African economy
      Corrupt, failing Eskom is a picture of South Africa in miniature

      Without reliable power, the country cannot generate economic growth and overcome the festering legacies of apartheid

    • Thursday, 15 December, 2022
      Burkina Faso
      Burkina Faso latest to ‘hire Russian mercenaries’, Ghana alleges

      Akufo-Addo tells Blinken that Wagner Group has ‘entered into an arrangement’ with Ouagadougou to fight jihadist revolt

    • Wednesday, 14 December, 2022
      South Africa
      Chief executive of South Africa’s Eskom quits as blackouts surge

      André de Ruyter to step down from struggling state monopoly amid national energy crisis

    • Thursday, 1 December, 2022
      Ghana
      Ghana faces rude awakening as the tide of cheap money recedes

      More countries will be unable to pay their debts after Covid and Ukraine, but ‘malevolent forces’ may not be the only problem

    • Tuesday, 8 November, 2022
      Special ReportManaging Climate Change
      South Africa’s green deal on coal power cut fails to ignite

      Most money earmarked to aid the switch to renewables is unspent

    • Tuesday, 8 November, 2022
      Special ReportManaging Climate Change
      Appetite for charcoal threatens ‘lungs of Africa’

      Some businesses are starting to develop alternatives to the cooking fuel

    • Friday, 4 November, 2022
      South Africa
      South Africa warns $8.5bn climate package risks fuelling debt burden

      International financing aimed at curbing reliance on coal relies too heavily on loans, says Pretoria

    • Wednesday, 2 November, 2022
      The Big Read
      The cost of getting South Africa to stop using coal

      Rich countries pledged $8.5bn to help the country shift away from dirty energy. But a year on, negotiations are strained

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