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  • Saturday, 10 April, 2021
    Djibouti
    Djibouti’s president wins fifth term with 97% of the vote

    Election in African trading hub ends with what opposition candidate calls an ‘impossible’ result

  • Thursday, 8 April, 2021
    David Pilling
    The man who helped make ordinary Africans’ voices heard

    Gyimah-Boadi’s Afrobarometer has worked to energise civil society and make the case for better government

  • Thursday, 8 April, 2021
    The Big Read
    Ethiopia: war in Tigray threatens to end Abiy’s dream of unity

    PM’s supporters say he can win re-election and get country back on track. Others fear too much damage has been done

  • Friday, 26 March, 2021
    Africa
    Ethiopia ‘will be digging up mass graves for a decade’: inside Tigray’s dirty war

    Involvement by Eritrean troops in ‘law and order’ operation tips country into fully fledged crisis

  • Wednesday, 17 March, 2021
    Tanzania
    Tanzania’s president dies after mysterious illness

    Covid-denier Magufuli had been out of public view for two weeks while his ministers insisted he was healthy

  • Wednesday, 17 March, 2021
    Libya
    Erik Prince accused of helping rebel Libyan general

    Former head of Blackwater allegedly helped evade a UN arms embargo on North African oil producer

  • Monday, 15 March, 2021
    News in-depthMozambique
    Mozambique looks to private sector in war against Islamists

    Despite outrage over abuses, president turns to South African companies to support army

  • Wednesday, 10 March, 2021
    Tanzania
    Tanzanian president’s absence sparks concern over possible illness

    Opposition calls for clarity on whereabouts of Covid denier John Magufuli

  • Monday, 8 March, 2021
    Niger president Issoufou wins $5m leadership prize

    Praise from Ibrahim award’s judges for adherence to constitutional two-term limit

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  • Sunday, 7 March, 2021
    Global InsightNeil Munshi
    Democracy erodes in central and west Africa

    Fresh signs of regression in countries, including Niger and Chad, that help the west to fight jihadis

  • Wednesday, 3 March, 2021
    Ethiopia
    FT translator and others released in Ethiopia

    Three media workers freed without charge after being detained by military in Tigray region

  • Friday, 26 February, 2021
    Nigeria
    Nigerian armed militants kidnap 317 schoolgirls

    Rescue operation launched as rise in banditry undermines President Muhammadu Buhari’s national security credentials

  • Wednesday, 17 February, 2021
    Nigeria
    Nigeria infrastructure splurge to boost economy

    Buhari launches big-ticket rail projects as critics complain about focus on north and lack of transparency

  • Wednesday, 10 February, 2021
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The tragedy of Ethiopia’s conflict in Tigray

    Only a national dialogue can truly heal the country’s divisions

  • Sunday, 31 January, 2021
    Ethiopia
    Ethiopia accused of using ethnic profiling to target Tigrayans

    Daughter of former PM says she was prevented from leaving country because of her heritage

  • Sunday, 31 January, 2021
    News in-depthEgypt
    Egypt’s farmers on front line in battle against water scarcity

    Smallholders urged to adapt as climate change and mega-dam threaten Nile flows

  • Wednesday, 27 January, 2021
    Tunisia
    Tunisian parliament backs cabinet reshuffle as protesters take to streets

    Government seeks to turn corner on economic crisis that has sparked youth protests

  • Tuesday, 26 January, 2021
    Nigeria
    Nigeria’s Buhari overhauls military as security crisis worsens

    Swiftly deteriorating situation in Africa’s most populous country forces president to replace four heads of armed forces

  • Tuesday, 26 January, 2021
    Special Report
    Sudan after the revolution

    Two years on, euphoria at the downfall of a dictatorship has faded among Sudan’s citizens. The coalition of forces that helped topple Omar al-Bashir has fractured as economic hardship bites and as the treacherous nature of the transition reveals itself

  • 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
    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

  • Sunday, 24 January, 2021
    Patrick Gathara
    An African lesson in reform for the US after Donald Trump

    Aim to change the underlying causes of division, be ambitious, also honest, but most of all humble

  • Thursday, 21 January, 2021
    Ethiopia
    Western concern mounts over Ethiopian crisis

    UK, US and EU push for humanitarian relief to get to the war-ravaged Tigray region

  • Saturday, 16 January, 2021
    Uganda
    Ugandan opposition leader cries foul after Museveni landslide

    Singer-turned-politician Bobi Wine claims widespread fraud during presidential vote

  • Wednesday, 13 January, 2021
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Uganda’s election shows dangers of a captured state

    Africa’s people have not given up on democracy. Nor should others

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