David Pilling

Thursday, 1 June, 2023

Friday, 26 May, 2023

News in-depthWar in Ukraine

The cigar-chomping ‘Kissinger’ behind Africa’s mission to end Ukraine war

Veteran fixer Jean-Yves Ollivier brokers an improbable plan to take six of the continent’s leaders to Moscow and Kyiv

Thursday, 25 May, 2023

Special ReportAfrica’s Fastest Growing Companies

Global shocks put Africa’s resilient spirit to the test

Entrepreneurial flair continues to be key feature of continent’s economic dynamism

Thursday, 25 May, 2023

Special ReportAfrica’s Fastest Growing Companies

Off-grid solar offers light — and some hope

Getting kits to customers who need it at a price they can afford in Democratic Republic of Congo is a miracle of technology and supply chains

Sunday, 21 May, 2023

InterviewNiger

Niger president defends French involvement in Sahel region

Mohamed Bazoum says Paris’s counterterror efforts have been unfairly maligned because of anti-western ‘propaganda’

Thursday, 18 May, 2023

Geopolitics

South Africa and the limits of having it both ways

Pretoria wants to be both a democracy with a progressive constitution and a friend to dictators

Thursday, 18 May, 2023

Ghana

Ghana secures $3bn IMF deal after creditors agree to debt restructuring

China, which is owed $1.5bn, among those that reached agreement on resolving long-running economic crisis

Thursday, 18 May, 2023

The Big Read

‘You can’t unsee it’: the content moderators taking on Facebook

Contractors in Kenya review graphic content so users don’t have to. Now, they are suing Meta for a fairer deal

Monday, 15 May, 2023

African companies

Solar start-up secures $250mn in one of Africa’s biggest tech fundraisings

M-Kopa draws Standard Bank, IFC and Sumitomo among lead investors in debt and equity raising

Friday, 12 May, 2023

War in Ukraine

South Africa-US dispute escalates as Putin calls Ramaphosa

Washington’s claim that Pretoria covertly sent arms to Russia sparks serious diplomatic incident

Tuesday, 9 May, 2023

Travel

In search of the ‘village of the elephants’, deep in the central African rainforest

Every day, forest elephants emerge from the jungle to congregate in greater numbers than anywhere else on earth

Tuesday, 2 May, 2023

Special ReportAfrica’s Fastest Growing Companies

FT ranking: Africa's Fastest Growing Companies 2023

List of 100 shows that sectors from fintech to renewable energy to healthcare managed to develop their businesses while much of the world shut down

Sunday, 30 April, 2023

Sudan

Sudan crisis has potential to be ‘worse than Ukraine’ for civilians, says UN official

Deputy secretary-general says fighting between army and paramilitary force threatens to cause mass civilian casualties

Thursday, 27 April, 2023

African politics

Sudan’s generals and the challenge of democracy

The heady optimism that came with overthrowing the Bashir dictatorship could not survive reality

Friday, 21 April, 2023

Person in the News

Hemeti, the Sudanese general fighting for absolute control

His battle against the commander of the armed forces is currently engulfing the country

Thursday, 20 April, 2023

InterviewSudan

Sudan’s warring generals: rival strongmen signal fight to the end

Former allies depict each other as ‘criminals’ in separate interviews

Wednesday, 19 April, 2023

News in-depthSudan

Risk of regional powers picking sides raises stakes in battle for Sudan

Egypt, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and others have sought to influence a country now being fought over by rival strongmen

Monday, 17 April, 2023

News in-depthSudan

Sudan conflict pitches military leaders into struggle for control

Rift between president and deputy sparks fighting that threatens to erupt into civil war

Wednesday, 22 March, 2023

OutlookAfrica

In drought-stricken Kenya, dead livestock tell of livelihoods lost

The pastoralists of Wajir county have been forced to abandon their itinerant lifestyle for lack of fresh pasture

Friday, 10 March, 2023

Africa special

Nuruddin Farah: ‘I can live without my books. They make their own friends’

The Somali novelist on his ambiguous relationship with his homeland, embracing radical secularism — and why he refuses to tolerate intolerance

Thursday, 2 March, 2023

The Big Read

Scandal at South Africa’s Eskom: the CEO and the cyanide-laced coffee

The attempted poisoning of André de Ruyter is a dramatic example of how criminality has seeped into the country’s state

Thursday, 23 February, 2023

South African politics

South Africa’s Russia stance shows it has lost the moral high ground

From ethical non-aligned foreign policy, Pretoria has shifted to a might-is-right position

Wednesday, 22 February, 2023

FT CollectionsNigeria presidential election 2023

Nigerian elections: How Peter Obi disrupted a two-horse race

The relative political newcomer has electrified young voters, rattled his rivals and made the outcome of this week’s contest much harder to predict

Friday, 17 February, 2023

News in-depthNatural disasters

From Haiti to Japan, what happens after film crews leave disaster zones?

An inadequate response to tremors, storms or tsunamis can topple governments

Thursday, 9 February, 2023

ReviewNon-Fiction

Migrants by Sam Miller — rethinking migration

A new book argues that migration is core to the human experience

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