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David Pilling

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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  • Monday, 27 June, 2022
    Special ReportThe Future of Cities
    Africa’s looming urban population explosion

    The continent’s cities will expand fast this century — as will the challenges they face

  • Monday, 20 June, 2022
    News in-depthEthiopia
    After the war ends, can Ethiopia’s economic ‘miracle’ get back on track?

    Until the conflict, Africa’s second-most populous country had been regarded as one of its most promising economies

  • Monday, 13 June, 2022
    African politics
    Kenya’s political titans gear up for electoral fight

    Voters in east African powerhouse hope for change in one of year’s most crucial polls

  • Wednesday, 8 June, 2022
    Nigeria
    Nigeria’s presidential election to be fought by wealthy political insiders

    Ruling party selects kingpin Bola Tinubu after main opposition chose former vice-president Atiku Abubakar as its candidate

  • Tuesday, 7 June, 2022
    ReviewEconomics books
    The secret of development? Ask the elite

    Stefan Dercon’s urgent and important book argues that for countries to achieve growth, the people in power have to want it

  • Monday, 6 June, 2022
    African companies
    African payments company makes rare purchase of US fintech

    Deal by MFS Africa is further evolution of continent’s rapidly growing fintech scene

  • Friday, 3 June, 2022
    FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
    Can Africa grow without fossil fuels?

    Global investors are returning to China’s stock markets after a big sell-off earlier this year

  • Thursday, 2 June, 2022
    Food security
    Trouble ahead as the world food crisis starts to bite

    Instead of focusing on domestic yields, too many governments have sought to placate restless populations with imports

  • Wednesday, 1 June, 2022
    The Big Read
    Can Africa grow without fossil fuels?

    As the developed world demands emissions cuts, the continent’s leaders are asking whether it is possible to industrialise on green energy alone

  • Thursday, 26 May, 2022
    Central African Republic
    Central African Republic’s adoption of bitcoin is mostly about geopolitics

    What use is cryptocurrency in an impoverished country where 85 per cent of people lack access to the internet?

  • Thursday, 26 May, 2022
    Special ReportAfrica’s Fastest Growing Companies
    Digital delivery transforms trade for Africa’s stallholders

    Technology and a ‘few to many’ model are reinventing the informal sector’s supply chain

  • Thursday, 26 May, 2022
    Special ReportAfrica’s Fastest Growing Companies
    Africa tries shared office space for size

    ‘Co-working’ hit difficulties elsewhere but could it be a good fit for the continent?

  • Tuesday, 17 May, 2022
    Nigeria
    Nigeria’s top accountant arrested by anti-corruption agency

    Ahmed Idris in alleged $190mn ‘diversion of funds and money-laundering activities’

  • Monday, 16 May, 2022
    US foreign policy
    US to establish ‘persistent’ military presence in Somalia

    Biden administration reverses Trump’s withdrawal from country as al-Shabaab threat grows

  • Tuesday, 3 May, 2022
    Africa
    Horn of Africa ravaged by worst drought in four decades

    Up to 20mn people could go hungry as delayed rains exacerbate fallout from war in Ukraine

  • Tuesday, 3 May, 2022
    Special ReportAfrica’s Fastest Growing Companies
    FT ranking: Africa’s Fastest Growing Companies 2022

    From digitising informal trade to fintech and mining, our inaugural list reflects trends on the continent

  • Friday, 1 April, 2022
    Special ReportInvesting in Mauritius
    Mauritians’ cherished democracy comes under strain

    The narrow political class has served the country reasonably well, but the system is being put to the test

  • Friday, 1 April, 2022
    Special ReportInvesting in Mauritius
    Wakashio oil spill highlights fragile Mauritian ecology

    Critics say government needs to think harder about how to develop the blue economy in a sustainable manner

  • Friday, 1 April, 2022
    Special ReportInvesting in Mauritius
    Mauritian tourism industry flickers back to life

    The island shut itself off the world for much of the pandemic but is seeking to lure back visitors to its world-class resorts

  • Friday, 1 April, 2022
    Special ReportInvesting in Mauritius
    Mauritius drives to diversify as manufacturing stalls

    Much of island’s economic success was built on textiles but rising labour costs underline need for high-tech products

  • Friday, 1 April, 2022
    Special ReportInvesting in Mauritius
    How Covid-19 interrupted the Mauritian economic miracle

    The government threw everything at the crisis, but to continue its upward trajectory the island needs to reinvent itself yet again

  • Friday, 1 April, 2022
    Special ReportInvesting in Mauritius
    Mauritius: after the spending comes the reckoning

    The government mounted an effective Covid stimulus package. It now needs to tame the deficit and curb rising debt

  • Thursday, 24 March, 2022
    Ethiopia
    Ethiopia’s government declares ‘unilateral truce’ in Tigray conflict

    Food aid go-ahead raises hopes for start of peace talks in 16-month war with region

  • Thursday, 24 March, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    This is no time for neutrality in Africa on Ukraine

    In the past decade Russia has stepped up efforts to peddle influence, sell arms and extract minerals in the continent

  • Wednesday, 16 March, 2022
    Nigeria
    Nigeria’s health system requires radical overhaul, experts warn

    Lancet Commission report makes recommendations to reduce high burden of disease that stymies development

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