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This time Khartoum turns off Juba's oil taps in a move that will damage both countries' economies and escalate tensions across the border

The meeting between Khartoum's hawkish Foreign Minister Ali Ahmed Kurti and China's Africa envoy Zhong Jianhua on 16 June over Sudan's plans to cut So...

SUDAN | SOUTH SUDAN

Turning the oil taps on and off again

SOUTH SUDAN

New investors, armed and dangerous

MOZAMBIQUE

A bumpy ride to the polls

A fraught registration of electors before the local polls and growing civil society interest compound Renamo’s dispute with Frelimo

AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK

The new battle for the Bank

Bank officials advise African economies to seek new sources of funding

TANZANIA

The licensing run-around

Despite the lack of the long-awaited natural gas policy, the licensing round will now start in late October

NAMIBIA

Economy thrives, BEE slows

Policies favouring foreign investment are set to prevail over those who want more of the benefits of growth to flow to black citizens

NIGER

After Mali, Niger

Bombings at Arlit and Agadez and a gaol break expose security problems

NIGERIA

An insurgency without the oil

With Map: Recent Boko Haram activity: bombings, shootings, kidnappings, jailbreaks

UGANDA

Talking Tinyefuza

Senior army officers are falling out over a succession plan which favours President Museveni’s son, Brigadier Kainerugaba Muhoozi

SOUTH KOREA | AFRICA

Angry envoys

Seoul is developing new initiatives to bolster its African diplomacy but is inadvertently ruffling feathers with perceived errors in protocol

CONGO-KINSHASA

Gertler’s assets multiply

A police investigation, growing international criticism and tougher conditions from the IMF put the mining business under greater scrutiny

KENYA | AFRICAN UNION

Bringing it all back home

The International Criminal Court’s offer to hold the trial of William Ruto in East Africa could be an astute compromise

MOZAMBIQUE

Timber rackets, gas booms

As the gas industry opens up the north, generals and politicians are smuggling hundreds of tonnes of timber and ivory to China

TANZANIA

CCM circles the wagons

The governing party worries about the next elections and some old hands, once out in the cold, are back on the scene

NAMIBIA

Riches on the yellowcake road

Development of Husab uranium mine moves forward as the Chinese agree to new business rules

JAPAN | AFRICA

TICAD V: An agenda for business

TICAD attendees will discuss how to get the Japanese private sector involved in African development and how to fight against piracy and instability

MOZAMBIQUE | JAPAN

Agricultural revolution delayed

The ProSavana project that could turn Mozambique into a major agricultural producer has yet to convince local civil society groups and farmers

UGANDA

Enter the Muhoozi generation

Museveni acts to placate the troops and to disarm critics

ZAMBIA

How to win friends

Sata’s government has a reputation for outspokenness but its economic policies are still getting support from Western investors and officials

ZIMBABWE | CHINA

Small beer from Beijing

Vice-President Wang Yang’s visit sees scrabbling state media rerun an old warning to Chinese companies from Prime Minister Tsvangirai

ZIMBABWE | ASIA

Elections and electioneering stall deals

The Essar deal, along with many others, is set to languish until after the polls

AFRICAN UNION

Paying – and fighting – for unity

Nigeria’s ex-President Obasanjo proposes taxing hotels and airlines to make the AU independent of foreign governments

TANZANIA

Protests fuel political crisis

Clashes over the lack of local benefits from the booming gas industry challenge President Kikwete’s government

MALAWI

The hill Banda must climb

If economic conditions don’t improve, the President’s prospects for next year’s elections look poor

CÔTE D'IVOIRE

Justice may have to wait

The government claims it treats both sides’ atrocities in the recent fighting even-handedly – it may prefer to let the reconciliation process slide

NIGERIA

Blocking the great reform bill

Partisan wrangling and commercial manoeuvring have derailed plans to make the oil and gas industry more efficient and accountable

CONGO-KINSHASA | CHINA

Too great expectations

The Sicomines deposits contain smaller copper reserves than predicted and some detect deep problems in the partnership with China

CONGO-KINSHASA | ASIA

Dam number three at Inga Falls

Kinshasa seals a deal with South Africa for the third dam in the series

ZAMBIA

Dodgy defections

President Sata wants a parliamentary majority to match his executive power, and public funds are running out

SOMALIA

Regions test Hassan Sheikh

The President is still finding his feet. Accepting his – or any – government’s authority is a challenge for the many interests at work

ASIA | EAST AFRICA

Pipeline politics

The Kenyan government wants to get moving on the Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia Transport Corridor

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