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  • Sunday, 29 January, 2023
    Nigeria
    Nigeria delays switching from old banknotes to new

    Central bank bows to pressure as millions are left unable to obtain new banknotes with a presidential election looming

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  • Friday, 27 January, 2023
    FT Magazine
    The 60-year, 4,000-mile journey home of Lumumba’s tooth

    Decades after his murder, the tooth of the former Congolese leader turned up in Belgium. This is the story of its return

  • Friday, 27 January, 2023
    News in-depthWar in Ukraine
    South Africa’s support underscores Moscow’s propaganda success

    Pretoria’s shifting position reveals Kremlin’s success in stoking doubt about responsibility for Ukraine war

  • Thursday, 26 January, 2023
    South Africa
    South African Reserve Bank cuts forecasts after blackouts hit economy

    Rate-setters slow pace of policy tightening as growth outlook weakens

  • Tuesday, 24 January, 2023
    Nigeria
    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

  • Monday, 23 January, 2023
    Zambia
    China is ‘barrier’ to ending Zambian debt crisis, says Janet Yellen

    US Treasury secretary wants progress from Beijing on deal that has taken ‘far too long’ to resolve

  • Monday, 23 January, 2023
    Nigeria
    Nigeria begins UK court bid to overturn $11bn arbitration award

    West African country says successful claim by oil and gas company P&ID built on ‘massive fraud’

  • Monday, 23 January, 2023
    Burkina Faso
    Burkina Faso orders French troops to leave the country

    Military junta says domestic forces will defend against Islamists amid claims of ties to Russia

  • Monday, 23 January, 2023
    Yezid Sayigh
    Sisi cannot ignore the Egyptian military’s economic role forever

    Cairo’s agreement with the IMF commits it to reducing the presence of the state in numerous sectors

  • Sunday, 22 January, 2023
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    Egypt releases prominent businessmen detained on terrorism charges

    Safwan and Seif el-Din Thabet had been held for about two years without charge

  • Friday, 20 January, 2023
    Kenya
    Kenyan killing exposes prejudices faced by LGBT+ Africans

    Activists say response to Edwin Chiloba’s death highlights struggle in many countries to achieve equal rights

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

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

  • Thursday, 19 January, 2023
    News in-depthSouth Africa
    South African businesses turn to diesel and solar panels as Eskom crisis deepens

    Companies beset by blackouts lead a surge in investment in their own supplies, mostly renewables

  • 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

  • Wednesday, 18 January, 2023
    Currencies
    It’s the currency, stupid

    Breaking the debt doom loop

  • Tuesday, 17 January, 2023
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Egypt’s deepening economic crisis

    Sisi needs to shrink the role of the state and military-owned companies

  • Tuesday, 17 January, 2023
    Special ReportThe World 2023
    Companies race to work around choke points in world trade

    Geopolitical risks are driving efforts to diversify but there are no quick solutions

  • 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

  • Friday, 13 January, 2023
    News in-depthGlobal migration
    How the law finally caught up with notorious human trafficker Kidane

    People smuggler who escaped from an Ethiopian courthouse is recaptured in Sudan and extradited to UAE

  • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
    InterviewPhotography
    Artist Aïda Muluneh: ‘We were at the mercy of foreign photographers’

    Her bright, surreal works and her new photo-festival reclaim African agency over depictions of the continent

  • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
    Central banks
    Nigeria’s $53bn wayward means

    What’s a few naira between friends?

  • 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

  • Wednesday, 11 January, 2023
    Egypt
    Egypt’s pound plunges to new low as authorities try to stem currency crisis

    Country has shifted to more flexible exchange rate as part of $3bn IMF rescue deal

  • Wednesday, 11 January, 2023
    Travel
    Saving orphan elephants in Samburuland

    In remote northern Kenya, the semi-nomadic Samburu are finding new ways of navigating challenging times

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