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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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  • Thursday, 26 November, 2020
    Ethiopia
    Constitutional question at the heart of Ethiopia’s fight in Tigray

    Some see ‘ethnic federalism’ and a ‘nation of nations’ as the country’s salvation, others as its damnation

  • Wednesday, 25 November, 2020
    Africa
    Ethiopia PM Abiy orders ‘final stage’ of military conflict in Tigray

    Addis says foreign powers should stop meddling as military prepares for assault on Mekelle in pursuit of TPLF leadership

  • Thursday, 19 November, 2020
    Uganda
    Uganda security forces shoot supporters of Bobi Wine

    Killings mark a sharp escalation in violence two months before elections are due to take place

  • Wednesday, 18 November, 2020
    AnalysisThe Big Read
    Ethiopia crisis: ‘a political mess that makes fathers fight sons’

    The conflict in Tigray is the biggest test of Abiy Ahmed’s premiership and threatens to spill over into neighbouring countries

  • Sunday, 15 November, 2020
    AnalysisEthiopia
    Tigray crisis: ‘They know how to fight and they can do it ’til the end’

    Ethiopian region has tradition of hardened fighters but Abiy says offensive can end quickly

  • Wednesday, 11 November, 2020
    Abiy Ahmed
    The curse of the premature Nobel Peace Prize

    The Ethiopian prime minister Abiy Ahmed may have been given the award too soon

  • Tuesday, 10 November, 2020
    Travel
    Gorillas with a twist: on a Covid-era safari in Rwanda

    A trickle of lucky tourists are returning for a socially distanced audience with the great apes

  • Friday, 6 November, 2020
    Ethiopia
    How Ethiopia’s Abiy Ahmed went from man of peace to a leader at war

    Domestic conflict threatens to wreck any chance of peaceful democratic transition promised by Nobel Peace Prize winner

  • Thursday, 5 November, 2020
    AnalysisEthiopia
    What’s at stake as conflict flares in Ethiopia?

    Military confrontation in Africa’s second most populous country could spill out across the region

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  • Wednesday, 4 November, 2020
    Ethiopia
    Ethiopian fighting breaks out after federal troops sent to quell rebellion

    Abiy Ahmed accuses Tigrayan regional government of deploying its armed forces against federal army base

  • Thursday, 29 October, 2020
    Special ReportNigeria at 60
    Nigeria at 60: my country’s greatest achievements and failings

    Leading lights, including WTO frontrunner Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, spell out a nation’s highs and lows, and their hopes for the future

  • Thursday, 29 October, 2020
    Special ReportNigeria at 60
    Has Nigeria missed the manufacturing bandwagon?

    Eradicating poverty depends on domestic production, but poor infrastructure is hampering progress

  • Wednesday, 28 October, 2020
    African politics
    Ivory Coast needs a new generation of leaders

    President Alassane Ouattara’s decision to run for a third term puts the country on a knife edge

  • Wednesday, 28 October, 2020
    Special ReportNigeria at 60
    Nigeria at 60 has yet to reach its potential

    The young, restless and innovative democracy has a booming population, but corruption is rife and tensions are rising

  • Tuesday, 27 October, 2020
    AnalysisThe Big Read
    Why Macron’s attempt to reset French ties to Africa has hit trouble

    Security and political challenges hinder the president’s efforts to overhaul its ‘Françafrique’ strategy

  • Friday, 23 October, 2020
    FT SeriesCoronavirus: Could the world have been spared?
    How Africa fought the pandemic — and what coronavirus has taught the world 

    Can similar future outbreaks be prevented? The vital lessons of Covid-19 can be learned from African countries’ powerful response

  • Thursday, 22 October, 2020
    ReviewFiction
    Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah — forgotten Africa

    Everyone has a story in this subtlety written, yet grand, sweep through German-run colonial times

  • Thursday, 22 October, 2020
    Special ReportAfrican Farming & the World
    Nigerian disrupters aggregate farm plots to boost productivity

    Scheme uses the power of scale to modernise agricultural practices and improve yields from smallholders

  • Wednesday, 14 October, 2020
    World Health Organization
    The WHO has become a scapegoat

    Nations seeking to distract from their own pandemic failures use it as a punching bag

  • Monday, 12 October, 2020
    Coronavirus pandemic
    WHO chief says lack of global leadership has prolonged pandemic

    Leading powers need to ‘step up’, says Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at FT Africa Summit

  • Monday, 12 October, 2020
    African economy
    Emerging economies plead for more ambitious debt relief programmes

    Critics contrast central banks’ huge stimulus with limited help for poor countries

  • Sunday, 11 October, 2020
    FT Africa Summit
    Sudan’s PM says US sanctions hurting move to democracy

    Abdalla Hamdok believes Khartoum has done enough to be removed from terrorism list

  • Wednesday, 7 October, 2020
    Ivory Coast
    Thiam’s name floated in Elysée talks to defuse Ivory Coast tensions

    Ivorian leader rebuffs Macron’s plea to postpone elections, as well as idea former CEO could play political role

  • Friday, 25 September, 2020
    Lunch with the FT
    Fatou Bensouda: ‘It’s about the law. It’s not about power’

    The International Criminal Court’s prosecutor on hunting war criminals and facing US sanctions

  • Thursday, 24 September, 2020
    World Trade Organization
    An African at the WTO’s helm would fit its free trade instincts

    New director-general could also address colonial patterns that hold back the continent

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