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    Neil Munshi

    Former West Africa correspondent

    Neil Munshi was West Africa correspondent and he covered economics, politics, security and culture in a region that stretches from Mauritania to Gabon to Chad and Cameroon (and all of Ecowas in between), with a particular focus on Nigeria. Previously he worked as a correspondent in New York and Chicago, covering everything between the coasts. He started his career at the FT as a correspondent in Mumbai in 2011.

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    • Thursday, 3 March, 2022
      War in Ukraine
      Foreign students report discrimination at Ukraine’s borders

      UNHCR and Nigerian president condemn racism as people of colour flee war

      People arrive at the West Train Station in Zahony after crossing the border at Zahony-Chop
    • Monday, 28 February, 2022
      War in Ukraine
      More than 500,000 Ukrainians flee fighting, says UN

      At least 100 civilians including children have died though the real figure is likely to be ‘considerably higher’

      Refugees arrive at the Medyka border crossing in Poland
    • Sunday, 20 February, 2022
      Ghana
      Pandemic financial response ignored poor countries’ concerns, says Ghana minister

      Measures aggravated problems for many countries now struggling to service debts, says Ken Ofori-Atta

      Ghana’s finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta
    • Wednesday, 16 February, 2022
      Mobile payments
      Nigeria’s Flutterwave reaches $3bn valuation after $250mn fundraising

      Payments company becomes the most valuable start-up in Africa as investors bet on continent’s fintech scene

      A mobile phone screen is held up displaying Flutterwave’s homepage
    • Tuesday, 15 February, 2022
      Travel & leisure industry
      Stay-at-home Nigerians fuel hospitality boom

      Covid-era travel restrictions have helped energise Lagos’s bar and restaurant scene

      Sun, sea and capital controls: Nigerians unable to take their money overseas have been spending it at destinations such as Ilashe Beach near Lagos
    • Tuesday, 15 February, 2022
      Nigeria
      Electoral calculations impede Nigeria’s economic reforms

      Analysts warn of a ‘lost year’ in efforts to revitalise the country’s moribund economy

      A hotel clerk in Maiduguri counts naira banknotes. The currency’s value has plummeted since 2015
    • Friday, 4 February, 2022
      News in-depthGuinea-Bissau
      Cocaine and a very murky coup in Guinea-Bissau

      Attempted assassination of president shines light on role played by drug traffickers in West African country

    • Tuesday, 1 February, 2022
      Guinea-Bissau
      Attempted coup in Guinea-Bissau thwarted

      Heavy gunfire in capital marks latest instance of political instability in west Africa

      Umaro Sissoco Embaló, Guinea-Bissau president
    • Monday, 31 January, 2022
      Mali
      Mali expels French ambassador over ‘outrageous remarks’

      Envoy given 72 hours to leave Bamako after Paris criticises ‘out of control’ ruling junta

      French soldiers patrol the streets of Timbuktu
    • Thursday, 27 January, 2022
      Mali
      Denmark begins withdrawing special forces troops from Mali

      Withdrawal of troops from French-led counterterror mission comes as Bamako reinforces Russian ties

      Malians protest against the sanctions imposed by Ecowas
    • Thursday, 27 January, 2022
      News in-depthNigeria
      ‘Godfather’ of Lagos aims to become Nigeria’s next president

      Bola Ahmed Tinubu shaped the megacity but has been dogged by allegations of corruption

      Bola Ahmed Tinubu, pictured in Abuja in 2019
    • Monday, 24 January, 2022
      Burkina Faso
      Burkina Faso’s president overthrown in military coup

      Latest military takeover in west Africa in eight months as jihadist insurgency roils region

      Uniformed men declare on Burkina Faso television that they have detained the president, Roch Kaboré
    • Friday, 14 January, 2022
      FT Magazine
      In ‘Touriste’, heroic Russians save the Central African Republic. The truth is even stranger

      The Wagner Group and the warped reality of a Russian action movie made in Africa

      A young man in Bangui wearing a T-shirt promoting a film called ‘Touriste’ in front of the stadium where it was premiered last May
    • Wednesday, 12 January, 2022
      Nigeria
      Nigeria lifts Twitter ban after company agrees to conditions

      Social platform was banned after post by president threatening violent repression was taken down

      People on a road in Lagos, Nigeria
    • Monday, 10 January, 2022
      Mali
      Mali’s neighbours impose sanctions over election delay

      West African countries close borders to landlocked country at centre of jihadi insurgency in the Sahel

      Leaders from the Economic Community of West African States at the summit in Accra, Ghana, held to discuss the election delay proposed by Mali’s junta
    • Friday, 7 January, 2022
      FT Magazine
      Six FT writers on the best party they ever attended

      Nights to remember from a 16th-birthday bash hosted by a hip-hop star to a fancy-dress rave in Mumbai

    • Friday, 31 December, 2021
      Nigeria
      Nigeria emerges as hub for illicit pangolin trade

      Sales of endangered animals run to hundreds of millions of dollars a year as corruption and porous borders hamper crackdown

      A pangolin
    • Wednesday, 22 December, 2021
      Mali
      How France lost Mali: failure to quell jihadi threat opens door to Russia

      Anti-French sentiment in the Sahel and rising violence creates space for Wagner mercenary group

      French soldiers on patrol in Timbuktu in December
    • Friday, 17 December, 2021
      Special ReportAfrican Banking and Finance
      Oil price shocks test mettle of Nigerian banks

      Exposure to fossil fuels and regulatory shifts hold back top lenders

    • Sunday, 14 November, 2021
      News in-depthAfrica
      ‘Failure of democracy’: why are coups on the rise in Africa?

      As dissatisfaction with democratically elected leaders intensifies, militaries are extending their grip

      Montage with a chart
    • Sunday, 7 November, 2021
      News in-depthDigital currencies
      Nigerians cautious over Africa’s first digital currency

      Government says eNaira will spur economic growth but sceptics question benefits

      App of eNaira Speed Wallet is displayed on a smartphone
    • Tuesday, 26 October, 2021
      FT Wealth
      Gun for hire: Nigeria security fears spark boom in private protection

      Many guards for wealthy and middle-class people are hired police officers

    • Monday, 25 October, 2021
      FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
      From Gangnam Style to ‘Squid Game’: South Korean’s culture wave goes global

      Poland balks at EU sanction threats, Russian mercenaries in the Central African Republic

    • Monday, 25 October, 2021
      Transcript
      The South Korean ‘wave’ has gone global

      The FT’s Ed White discusses the popularity of South Korea’s entertainment industry and why China’s recent crackdowns might threaten its success

    • Friday, 22 October, 2021
      Africa
      Russian mercenaries leave trail of destruction in the Central African Republic

      Mineral-rich country is ‘perfect laboratory’ for Wagner group as Kremlin extends influence in Africa

      A commando for the Central African Republic trained by the Wagner Group guards a road in Bangui, the country’s capital, during a May Day parade
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