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Andres Schipani

East and central Africa bureau chief

Andres Schipani is the east and central Africa bureau chief of the Financial Times based in Nairobi. He was previously Brazil correspondent and, before moving to São Paulo, he was the Andes and Caribbean correspondent based in Bogotá.

He has also worked in the newspaper's New York bureau as a markets and emerging markets reporter. A native of Buenos Aires, he is a graduate of the universities of Oxford and Columbia.

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  • Wednesday, 4 October, 2023
    The Big Read
    Ethiopia’s plan to rebuild in the wake of a ‘brutal’ war

    After a peace deal ended the conflict in Tigray, the country is on the slow road to recovery. But lingering animosity threatens progress

    Abiy Ahmed, Getachew Reda, foreground. Background: People react as captive Ethiopian soldiers walk towards Mekele Rehabilitation Center in Mekele, the capital of Tigray region, Ethiopia, on July 2, 2021.
  • Friday, 8 September, 2023
    Moral Money
    Investing in the world’s poorest country Premium content

    Also in today’s newsletter, Singapore’s central bank head calls for action on carbon pricing and blended finance

    Evariste Ndayishimiye in a crowd of people wearing Burundi’s national colours of red, white and green
  • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
    Climate change
    African leaders back global carbon tax to pay for green energy in poorer nations

    Climate summit calls for six-fold increase in renewable energy across the continent

    Delegates on stage at the Africa Climate Summit
  • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
    Moral Money
    Inside the inaugural Africa Climate Summit Premium content

    Also in today’s newsletter, investment plans to wean Indonesia off coal fail to materialise

    Delegates of the Africa Climate Summit outside the venue in Nairobi
  • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
    Climate legislation
    New EU climate chief to explore controversial carbon capture strategy

    Bloc countries divided on upgrading climate change targets

    Wopke Hoekstra, the Dutch nominee to be EU climate commissioner
  • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
    Climate change
    Kenya’s president calls for African debt relief to fight climate change

    Appeal to reduce financial demands on indebted nations comes as Nairobi hosts first Africa Climate Summit

    Kenyan president William Ruto speaks at the first Africa Climate Summit in Nairobi on Monday
  • Friday, 1 September, 2023
    DR Congo
    UN ‘alarmed’ by deaths during protest against its DRC peacekeeping force

    Human rights groups accuse military of shooting civilians during unrest that left dozens of people dead

  • Monday, 28 August, 2023
    Ethiopia
    ‘God wants us away from our enemies’: bitter legacy of war splits Ethiopian church

    Breakaway bishops form separate Tigray denomination in schism that risks inflaming tensions in wake of brutal conflict

    Ethiopian worshippers celebrate the Orthodox Easter at a church in the city of Lalibela
  • Sunday, 27 August, 2023
    News in-depthSafaricom Ltd
    Safaricom’s mobile money rollout in Ethiopia marks moment for ‘last frontier’

    Privatisation wave makes country of 120mn people a tempting target for digital services

    A Safaricom advert in Nairobi
  • Friday, 25 August, 2023
    Africa
    Wagner’s lucrative African operations thrown into post-Prigozhin limbo

    Founder’s demise casts fresh doubt over Russia’s ability to maintain mercenary deployments on the continent

  • Sunday, 20 August, 2023
    InterviewEthiopia
    Ethiopia seeks help to find $20bn for post-conflict reconstruction

    Finance minister Ahmed Shide calls on international institutions and foreign investors to aid recovery from civil war

    A farming family in Tigray, Ethiopia
  • Wednesday, 16 August, 2023
    Sudan
    More than 4mn Sudanese displaced by ‘senseless’ war, says UN

    6mn people ‘one step away’ from famine in 4-month conflict between warring generals, says refugee agency

    A Sudanese woman, who fled the conflict, in Chad
  • Thursday, 10 August, 2023
    Private equity
    CVC explores sale of troubled Kenyan tea plantation

    Kericho site in Kenya had a history of violence and sexual abuse allegations before Unilever sold it to private equity last year

    Farm workers emerge from a plantation in Kenya’s Kericho highlands
  • Wednesday, 9 August, 2023
    Uganda
    World Bank freezes new lending to Uganda over LGBT+ crackdown

    Move by Washington-based lender could spur other institutions and western nations to follow suit, say analysts

    A person draped in a flag with hands clasped in prayer
  • Wednesday, 9 August, 2023
    Tanzania
    Tanzania accused of silencing critics over port deal with Dubai

    Lawyers say intergovernmental deal over Dar es Salaam port is too generous to Emirati interests

    Dar es Salaam, shot from above
  • Monday, 7 August, 2023
    African politics
    Central African Republic leader wins vote to rule for third term

    Touadéra’s constitutional move cements role of mercenary Wagner group in the state

  • Friday, 4 August, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    Saudi-hosted conference seeks to build support for Ukrainian peace plan

    Kyiv steps up efforts to engage key developing countries in isolating Moscow

    a residential building hit by a Russian missile in Dnipro, Ukraine
  • Thursday, 27 July, 2023
    Yevgeny Prigozhin
    Wagner boss Prigozhin appears on sidelines of Russia-Africa summit

    Paramilitary group’s founder has continually been seen at events in Russia despite supposedly agreeing exile in Belarus

    Yevgeny Prigozhin shaking hands with Freddy Mapouka
  • Wednesday, 26 July, 2023
    Europe Express
    Putin’s war spiel fails to drum up interest from Africa’s leaders Premium content

    Also in today’s newsletter: Macron offers the Pacific an alternative to US vs China

    Vladimir Putin talks to Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Wednesday, 26 July, 2023
    Russian politics
    Russia hits out at west for pressing African leaders to miss St Petersburg summit

    Limited representation from continent is blow to Vladimir Putin

    Flags for the Russia-Africa summit in front of Saint Isaac’s Cathedral in Saint Petersburg, Russia
  • Monday, 24 July, 2023
    Africa
    Ukraine war casts a shadow over Putin’s summit with African leaders

    Moscow’s exit from UN-led deal that exports grain to the continent labelled a ‘stab in the back’

    Vladimir Putin, centre, poses for a photo with leaders of African countries at the Russia-Africa summit in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia in October 2019
  • Friday, 21 July, 2023
    Food security
    Russia pushes plan to supply grain to Africa and cut out Ukraine

    Kremlin proposal would involve both Qatar and Turkey but neither has agreed to the idea

    A market in Yemen
  • Wednesday, 19 July, 2023
    Kenya
    Several injured in Kenya as protesters clash with security forces

    Opposition leader Odinga rallies supporters to protest against tax rises pushed through by President Ruto

  • Monday, 17 July, 2023
    News in-depthSahel
    Sudan’s descent into violence poses new threat to volatile Sahel region

    Spillover from conflict risks creation of a corridor of instability stretching from the Red Sea to the Atlantic

    Black smoke rises against the blue sky, with low-level buildings in the foreground
  • Thursday, 13 July, 2023
    Wagner Group
    Wagner faces challenge in African stronghold

    Divisive vote in Central African Republic is first serious test for the mercenary group since Yevgeny Prigozhin’s mutiny

    A man holds a placard reading ‘Centrafricains with Russia’ in Bangui during a pro-Russia demonstration
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