Bunkering mentality Lobbyist of last resort New faces, old enmities AGOA no go Cashew crisis grinds on Meltdown in the party Leaning to the left Guilty plea on conspiracy High risks, low politics The Crown Prince’s power play From revolution to realpolitik Proxies battle over Tripoli The party and the pendulum Sisi's Sinai stalemate Vaz clings on Spinner caught in web Off the case One rule for the party Kasaï peace at risk Fund falls for Sassou Paris’s terror dilemma The Gang of 43 breaks cover Zuma blusters at Zondo The Egypt model isn't working A killing joke Asmara and Amhara Lungu to change basic law Terminated SWAPO succession dilemma Roads, rails, pots and kettles Lobbying pays off for Bourita HYPREP’s checkered rep False starts for the clean-up Running on close to empty Military roadblocks Air strikes risk escalation The politics behind the putsch Rounding up unusual suspects Frelimo on a roll Gag on security reporting Militia starts scare 'Rot' in the Commission Nobbling Nabil Ghazouani’s modest mandate The rise of Godwin Emefiele Ace helps his allies Mbororo conundrum Singing from the same spreadsheet Chaos helps Mutharika Cocoanomics Unchanging of the guard A tale of two ANCs Seeds of instruction An oily threat to Sall Washington stirs the UN pot Missing you already Tshisekedi tries his luck Oando chief takes on his foes Enemies without, and within Freedom under fire Austerity first Köhler leaves the hot seat New Khama party takes off Chang dodges US extradition Father of the bridge Between Blaise and jihad Troubles mount for Buhari Little cash, no credit A shake-up takes shape Mutharika’s narrow win Readying for protest Long shadow of corruption over new order EU-ACP ties in question Khama's tactical shift OPL245: Fight or flight A Talon for authoritarianism Weah on borrowed time Farmajo's big push Graft, or statescraft? Sonangol's head rolls Pushing out the privateers The Ramaphosa relaunch A military-Islamist complex Cutting a deal on a knife-edge Move over darling Chill on the border Hirak tracks west 'Roll more heads' Patchwork diplomacy Treasury in the red Belt, road and pork barrel Talon turns back the clock ANC split threatens campaign A battle against the clock Campaign plumbs the depths Slowing down but borrowing more Currency scams block reforms and deepen crisis Whose chair is it anyway? Counter-terror error Atiku takes his beef to DC Key round to Masisi Condé bids for third term 'Not even the Pope' Out for the count Jihad's shifting fronts Big data state Haftar stakes it all The revolution rumbles on Stumbles at the falls Birthday blues Assoumani's way Donors' aid parade Electoral arithmetic Clean-up or cover-up? Koroma’s record on trial A storm in a port The real post-election fight Nuts to the market Protests flush out the old guard Farming gamble fails Is it an olive branch? New man for the horn Reformers take power Fighting withdrawal Ncube wins foreign fans Kabila corners Tshisekedi ANC’s not-so-clean slates A spring in the step Election credibility on trial Sibling rivalry turns ugly Border tension grows Flight of fancy The cost of war Sall romps home Contradictions in the contracts A surprise reunion Abiy dining dangerously Haftar puts south in the game Ramaphosa’s high-wire act War of the running mates The stayaway election El Beshir mulls the endgame Sall campaign 'fakes news' Bumps on the road to peace Panic in the politburo Fishing for favours Attacks spur ethnic violence Back to the future dollar Cash in the cabinet All bets are off Shabaab fight in high gear Macky wants first round KO Governors get set Drama in the delay Pushing Beshir towards the exit From bullet to ballot Memo misfire Diplomatic differences Errors of judgement President says au revoir Eight years of transition A party at war Mountains to climb Anglo at a turning point The President's anger Glitches in the growth A fragmentary future A day of portents A stasis of emergency Anger and innovation A compromised regime Midterm blues and red lines A rapidly growing field Sliding into autocracy Debt and discontent Turbulent beginnings Three's a crowd Africa in 2019: The youngest continent fights back US spears the loan sharks Mogadishu lashes out Key events in South Africa in 2019 Data leak exposes plot to steal presidential vote Sall safe for second term Peace maybe, prosperity no Business thrives, society waits Fighting fear with freedom Goodbye to all that Win first, then work The fight for the ANC’s soul A poll without passion Disputes, disruptions and a new diplomatic order The people's spring against Beshir Church claims sweeping opposition win Adieu 2018, legacies of a troubled year John Howe, 1938-2018 Kofi Annan (1938-2018) JH Mensah, 1928-2018 Lungu's to lose Mnangagwa's resolution Grafting against corruption Not waltzing in Vienna Mnangagwa wants his pipeline Taking the heaviest of tolls The forgotten army 'America first' for Africa The Twelve Fixes of Christmas Election bored game Sharks in an oily soup Blow to jihadists End for Trovoada Democratic deficit Boycott threatens landslide Détente derailed Mutharika’s uphill battle The year of the empty threat Poll fight for Farmajo Sisi & Sons Paris clashes with Moscow Fund in the firing line Clean-up gets murky Hey, big spender! Mahama wants a replay Fertilise this Vaz kicks it into touch Second-round grudge match The sick men of North Africa Posturing in Palermo A well-oiled machine Rounding up the suspects Frelimo waits them out Finding for the government Ramaphosa rattled Militias flex their muscles Promises, promises Moscow abhors a vacuum Khama moves on Masisi Don't call them transit camps Day return to Juba please A bridging loan too far Weah awash in scandal Biya’s hollow victory US strikes, Shabaab gains The Brexit connection Debts and denials Cyril’s new business plan Trafigura in a tug-of-war Big men bid high for the top job Those pesky human rights The flight into Israel Museveni widens the tent Poll blow for Trovoada  Who speaks for Africa? Lining up for battle Struggling to keep pace Poll knocks Frelimo confidence Push-ups and makeovers Now the race looks serious Going bilateral on migration A clumsy crackdown Another one bites the dust Shelter for favouritism The heist that never was A splurge before the squeeze Hanging on a click factor Limbo after ghost elections Turks in troubled waters Riyadh to the rescue Elephants in an angry room Biya's no-change election EU auditors slam spending Brussels bridles Beijing Graft-busters busted Sisi in the city Rallies shatter fragile peace Man in a hurry Museveni to tough it out Money worries No cash, no peace Populists hack at the budget Investors weigh rescue plan Big business gets stuck into the elections Bonds crash as donors cut funding Says no to computer Not lacking convictions A bridge too far Terrain trial Fuelling a debt crisis Another trade muddle Deep waters Graft worsens cash squeeze Open for negotiations The house of hunger revisited Turning down the volume Wave of protests rattles Museveni Bonds, bills and ever bigger debts No son, you can't run Putting it to the vote again Two suitors for the FPI Whose coup is it anyway? Little growth, less opportunity Europe discovers Africa, again One province’s perilous poll Kabila's two-front offensive The worm turns Blame game scuppers reform The judges join in Wrath rules President plays by his rules Abiy dials down Pax Ethiopia Gas contract claims minister This bum for hire Court in the act Deal or no deal? Politics of patronage Barbarians at the gate Raila rebounds A flood of rumours Backers and attackers Kabila names his dauphin The great observer gamble A disputed crown for the crocodile Uncivil action Farmajo's Brussels win It's Ouattara's party The dollars after the votes Question on Oromo peace Fiscal fails and testing talks ISIS’s nemesis Sanctions and splits Electoral déja-vu A deluge of injustice The probity contest The rocks she hasn't got New Islamists on the block A seven-year hitch Rationing corruption Shaky start for Sahel force Another political fix Corruption inquiry takes off Hanging on a handshake In the mood for change Dead in the water A split by any other name From the edge of war to the bridge of love Move over, grandad Sparks still fly Abiy scores – so far A proconsul retires Scuttle diplomacy Trading blocs hit the blocks Adieu à Françafrique Discontent takes wing Bombs, smoke and mirrors Full of sound and fury… The lone general Putting on the brakes Koroma accused of grand corruption Masisi steps out of Khama's shadow Offensives and reshuffles Monrovia questions UN record Weah scores away Jobs for Raila's boys Threats to peaceful poll Squeaking in and cutting back A toxic brew Militants pick their party Pushback peril for Abiy Making the miners sweat The tail that wags the dog How to fix a coalition A radical bid for peace and economic change  Ely Calil, 1945-2018 Migration clouds treaty hopes Conté's long shadow Moyane spoiling for a fight All things to all factions This land may be your land An untimely death Shabaab takes to the air Cracks spread in APC alliance Debt spike threatens reserves The Sahara conflict is back Korean barbecue down south Solutions scarce as chaos grows Vaz gives in Peace in peril as Dhlakama dies Short walk to freedom Gold fever Friends with benefits A swirling fog of debt Sounding the alarms on debt Clashes over 'clean coltan' Splits and special pleas Tax and spend dilemmas Proxies, powers, and presidents Banda flies home Language barriers Europe banks on Africa Who wants to see a billionaire? Narrow win constrains Bio Fear stalks the economy Polls code sparks crisis Unbowed, Zuma seeks revenge Abiy tests the military Diplomats down, spies up An election on autopilot Obrigado e tchau, Dos Santos Abiy goes goodwill hunting Believe the handshake Frankly undermined Cooking the books Where's the delivery man? Issoufou under fire Mixed messages Ace in a hole Behind the curtains As the debts balloon, Lungu avoids the spotlight Zumaists and Ramaphorians AGOA hits Mitumba World Cup warm-up UK leans to Mnangagwa Migration tests 'partnership' Doubts about unity deal Funds for all the family Vaz defies sanctions Into the valley of debt Abiy makes a promising start No farewell to arms deals Salva's bunker mentality Return of the Jagaban Enemies without and within Fishing for recognition Fates of the opposition Nine angry men Maputo's haircut Deep sea intrigue The Great Lakes gold rush Seizing the spoils of war Geingob reasserts control A well-scripted succession Ramaphosa begins world tour Cash pipeline set to flow APC tries to stall election Raila beats rivals to a new deal Mogadishu fires broadside at UAE Salva stalls the peacemakers Any port in a storm G5 unsure on role Abuja comes to Milan Flights of fancy New jihadist alliance strikes Kabila's survival strategy Down the autocrat's alley Who goes first? Oromia on a knife edge Zexit, Ramaphoria, then political landmines Not yet Team Ramaphosa Tax treaties 'made by the rich' The Tinubu test The boys for the black stuff Fertilising dialogue Auntie Pat's spat An inspector calls, no longer 'Usual suspects' face challenge 'Feigned lawsuit' bid to foil US The edifice cracks After Tsvangirai Kabila squeezes the miners A Saint Valentine's Day massacre, of sorts Zuma goes down fighting Polisario and the fish pact Lease to appeal Slow track for loans case Drilling down Skeletons in the cupboard Jockeying for position Strains on the front line Flying blind Rumblings in the regions The goodbye gets longer Rival Arab powers take their fight to Africa Diplomats and journalists drawn into election row IMF stops funds over 'election' budget Judges to rule on Lungu's future Socialists sack Sall Refugee protest in Tel Aviv Obiang foils coup Roll with the punches Lungu's costly power play Cycle of broken deals Weah's known unknowns El Sisi's shrinking circle Tunis fiddles as revolt grows Big change, no fanfare Two steps forward… Cracks in the federal system Trouble in the engine room A year to deliver Political rift will linger Crushing the enemies within The electoral mirage Cold war and glacial change Forward on the southern front Bombs, votes and petrodollars Maputo faces off with the Fund Wanted: change and security All about votes and the naira Cyril presses his advantage Old ZANU-PF in new bottles Pushing Zuma to the exit Splits and fusions Low expectations for peace talks Probing the gold UN raid's complex causes Pepper spray Allowance alliance Fear in the franc zone Courtship and crackdowns Stumbling into a debt crisis Separatists on the march Power to the president's elbow A martial mind-set A fight to the photo-finish Farm-downs and cash-cows Migrants rock the summit boat Honeypot on wings Bibi goes vote shopping Macron woos Ouaga Street meets state A homemade disaster Dos Santos clan targeted Slippage, not suffrage The countdown begins Banda’s Faustian pact Fraud claims fail to convince Destruction in his wake Hopes and fears for the new old guard Grenades against peace Patriotic front on back foot Making policy on the hoof Trading on the fly SACP on the ballot Buried in the wreckage Macron ponders Africa play Militants turn the screw Buhari opens the war chest The race gets uglier Counting on the counties Unpacking Raila's resistance The crocodile snaps back Mugabe drops the crocodile Whose aid is it anyway? Oromia on the edge What the landslide buried No let-up in southern fighting Laying down the law Hichilema pushes for Commonwealth talks Snagged by the Guptas' global reach One man, one vote Kinshasa-on-the-Potomac Bongo clubbed in Paris Dos Santos Inc. sinking Party debts hold back Nyusi A question of legitimacy Weah walks up to the spot Both sides double down Risorgimento Africano Terminal EPA delay M6's apprentices Guns, gas and nukes Signals of change Team Nyusi wins a point Afro optimism loses momentum When oil chiefs fall out Rifts in the regions Mabuza changes the race A commission under siege Weah sprints towards an open goal Crisis? What crisis? The seven ages of Museveni Mystery of the missing mine profits Balancing the good cop with the bad The Duke of Richmond, 1929-2017 Justice and jurisdictions Game of names Asphalt jungle New man takes it slow Mayhem among the militias Mutharika's uncertain future No open-and-shut case A test for people power On Ouattara's terms Magufuli on the warpath Homage to Catalonia Game of mansions Bibi rebuffed Euronews 'soft on Angola' Clashes in the east Picked up or not picking up? Own goal in Ouaga? False start to IMF talks Sassou in a corner El Sisi marshals his allies Opposition's ailing fortunes ANC contest lands in court KPMG feels the Gupta heat Storm over probe into UN experts murder The incumbent never loses The EAC's used clothes No safe press haven A dam for a daughter FQM's missing figures Stalemate and stand-off 'Dirty tricks' target Cyril The split that never was Pretty vacant presidency Abuja's high hopes in New York The next trial of strength Crisis over, crisis goes on Secrets of the Dos Santos media empire Abdel Aziz way No news from Kinshasa Diallo buried with his secrets Sugar loaf sell-out Can the usurpers unite? Trovoada's Chinese gamble The state stays captured Dos Santos Inc. under threat A technical knock-out New elections, old battles Hacks against facts All at sea over migration Desperate for a diamond fix Military justice Seek asylum elsewhere No licence to drill Who loves ya, BBY? After Ellen ANC dilemma deepens Court in the cross-fire Donors risk funding a fix Letting a crisis go to waste Trading places and faces Battle of the opinion polls Murder most foul Luanda uneasy as poll approaches Khartoum comes to Kensington Bye bye magic money tree Nkaissery leaves the stage Growth and less opportunity Sanctions test for Trump The high cost of fighting fraud Magufuli's law Diezani in their sights Losing control in Kasaï A landslide foretold Reforms stall as unrest eases Killing fields in the Rift Valley Escrow case takes wing In a state of suspense IMF to rescue of CFA Sassou's family values Cyril's musical chairs Rock and Kroll Casino Jack plays his hand No last trump for AGOA Polarisation politics Vote-rigging just got harder Closer and closer Action plan to crack the Inga enigma Split threatens food supplies EFF-ANC alliance floated UN joins G-5 force Friends in African places The ghost of elections past UK vote stalls trade talks Chill in the air for Chenge Risks for all in mining row Opinion polls in question Mugabe the juggler Trafigura aims for gas prize Factional fireworks threaten party Refining impurities Dos Santos’s Cannes do son Rif in revolt Army shadow over polls Uhuru sweats as Raila rallies Here come the data-miners Insiders dissect secret audit Zuma's chaos theory A test of wills over mining States of failure The great growth divide Bow ties, flashing smiles and the big sell Mali for Macron Economically bankrupt Cash and cache The fall of 'King Paul' …A harsher one in Mogadishu A hopeful view in London… Germany's turn to Africa Kabila thriving on chaos Secret deal to end copper war Inflation fears are back The Anglophone spring A date with destiny Militias change gear as violence surges What Bongo owes An avenger unmasked Thiam verdict makes waves High Court, high drama Polls provide no answers Uhuru spends, Raila promises Majors push out the minnows Spat with FQM continues Spinning Africa in Europe No place to hide Everyone's fault but Zuma's Bitter pills for the politicians Primary colours Less Blair for Africa Macky challenger gaoled The trillion rand thank you Corruption climate warming Vaz clings to power Concealing disappointment Finding Africa on K Street Bongo's fund embrace A meandering audit trail Mr Gigabyte's baptism of fire To sue or to schmooze Motorcade, treason and plot Guelleh quells opponents No pay, no ports, no deal Desperation and inspiration Runway overrun Sex, rebels and Paris trips Heroes and villains Lungu's way and the highway New populist hires old faces Ambition and ethics New script in KwaZulu-Natal Gigaba raises sights still higher Zuma's edifice starts to wobble Magufuli backs hard man SACP threatens JZ Water emergency Plan Bibi for AU Bye bye Benkirane Timis takes shine off boom Omens and portents Bank scandals hit MPLA hard Combat and compromise The great oil chase Storm over $10,000 permit Pariahs united Broken China Standoff in the Sahara Mutharika's woes look terminal Squaring the triangle Mega-projects await reforms Peace moves stumble More progress, less movement Poll calendar under pressure Nyusi celebrates Exxon's entry How to repeat the Mugabe mantra Lungu’s terms and conditions Registering interest Compromise in Conakry Power before food Shock pick for PM Sour fate of sugar project Aides with agendas Bouteflika unbowed Hot-money boost for economy Health checks Museveni goes for gold Zuma's anti-Gordhan play A racing start in spite of the rocky finances An awkward tango for Gertler and Glencore Whose judge is it anyway? Access all assets Two trumpeteers overboard Don't read the fine print Poaching and gamekeeping Taylor tries to sway vote MPs reject foreigners' choice ZANU-PF digs for votes Professional fouls The untouchable funds Leader's demise imperils deal The state of Jacob Zuma's presidency Taylor calls politicians from prison Front lines in flux Squeezing the banks Another Kenya army base hit Jammeh's long goodbye Artfully dodging debt Kabila's co-opted cabinet Eritrea's unsettling alliance The endless election Warning shots from the army Kith, kin and cosh Naval deal under spotlight Calling Trumpsville The scramble for the chair Development state digs in Benkirane's 'bras de fer' Vote row threatens economy Hery's hard line Electoral test for Condé Out with the Ould The South fails the North Museveni's marathon Global shocks, local differences Paris sends Sahel signal The power and the glory Pressure-cooker polls Surviving elections and jihad Elusive legitimacy A coalition of hope Cold and hot wars Lungu for longer Mugabe's waiting room Frelimo's quagmire Power struggle goes nuclear A scorched earth peace Money and the military New order tackles old debts Partisan politics runs riot The bad loans bite back Jammeh feels the heat Breaking point MK vs JZ NASA for launch Gunning for aid Dos Santos picks his man Zille threat to De Lille The numbers game next year Killers crowd in Lungu against the law Preparing for the worst Gambia at the cliff-edge Things fall apart in Rivers vote A turning point vote for the Black Star Electoral process stumbles but stays on track  Sanogo finally on trial Old man trouble Army's 'Biafra' overreaction Gordhan in ratings war Pledges lack promise Timis's seam of woe Clinging to the wreckage 'Afrexit' on hold Kabila ducks and dives New faces, old tactics Grandees test the water Jobs and corruption dominate election agenda Fuel fund fracas Post mortem Loosing the bonds Shabaab fills Ethiopian vacuum Empty words on graft ISIS's Puntland stunt Starting the post-Zuma race Comradely disunity The burden of war and debt A heartbeat away from Lungu The bulldozer's light tread Nairobi flaunts its credentials Political schisms hit recovery and reform More growth, more debt Graft disrupts long goodbye Rio quits Simandou How to win friends Colliding worlds Taking a pounding The securocrats get stronger Amina jumps to the front A week of defeats for Zuma Getting ready for trouble More talk talk than walk walk The people's IMF Killing overshadows talks Buhari's kitchen cabinet Shifting borders south Premier Benkirane is back Ruling party ploughs on Diversification or bust Stalwarts push for Zuma's exit Killings threaten shaky peace Dar wins from regional shift Good gas and bad governance Kabila slides into a legitimacy crisis Iron Man One-man dialogues Coordinated exit Safe choice, vexed process Jubilee unites ahead of poll Electoral roads to federalism Did Khartoum cross the line? Jammeh tilts the playing field More guns, more secret debts Zuma largesse under fire Fears of a great unravelling Impatience From beer to betting Funds to remain New meetings, old answers Ramaphosa ready for launch Salva and Riek in the dock Death of a front-runner Age cannot weary him Push-ups and pushback Instability goes national No oil, no money, no deal Bad report card Political football claims aide Kasambara incarcerated Moi après Kenyatta? Judges in the firing line Funeral fusillade hits Zuma The debt merry-go-round EU tiptoes into minefield Uhuru goes banker-bashing Ouattara shores up legacy Bongo's incredible win Technology against tricksters Improbable poll Exeunt UN Pushing Sylvestre Oily enclave Chimwenje or chimera? Press on the button Power to the provinces Feds grab middleman No compromise, no bail A dollar emergency Ministry of muddle Lungu's victory under fire Bongo's sure bet One-party stasis Patriotism, politics and position Pax Salvatica Zuma carries on regardless The centre holds on Strategic, and shaky A curious coup Asylum alarums Kasaï takes off Zeroual's next move Bugging the buggers Rolling with the punches A look ahead Paris calling Reigning again Early retirement The clocks go back Trumping the King Septuagenarian struggle A cloudy dawn It's fine by the AU Run-off wrangle Nkosazana's trial balloon Signing bonus Fear stalks the law Riek rival boosts Salva Racing to the finish Unending flow of Cashgate The scramble for the spoils Juicier carrots, heavier sticks Trovoada's triumph Big win for Vaz Another restive region Saudi wants one too A gathering storm Kaizar the kingpin Lungu's media vendetta Dos Santos takes stock, shares ANC unruffled by DA surge Finally, the AU moves in Dollar crisis puts opposition on the streets Red Sea wrangles Trying treason Dam fine Chip off the oil block Warnings of a bad election Cracks widen in peace deal Frelimo's ostrich plan Mercy and Machiavelli Gadaffi's desperate bid Old guards try new uniforms Ellen's followers A close political race gets angrier Angry Sisi lashes judiciary Not the last Post Tighter rules on war booty The Delta-naira yoyo The big rand short The General's identity crisis Condé follows regional lead Bird flu ruffles feathers Political plots in a slow month From putschist to third termer A new deal in the East Battles on the judges' bench Political questions loom as debt deal is set for September Destabilising NGOs Dam provocations Stand-off over Dadaab The Sonangol is you Not the court of Africa Hacks off The soul of transparency Memories of regimes past A 'presidential coup' Hangover cures in Lusaka Political football over the ref Budget battles as election race heats up Assassins and arrow boys Separating mosque and state Guptas' export drive State of fear Filling Obiang's boots Mine sale prompts tax grab Sable bribery repercussions ICC down but not out Economic sands start to shift Xenophobia on the rise Anniversary ambushed Sovereign default looms Katumbi enlists US against Kabila Avengers assemble Biya's time added on Sahel on the Rhine Clamping down on Katumbi Power without responsibility Counties at the crossroads Sable's rich seam of bribes Perils of the pipeline Secret security debts devastate economy Papa's posthumous politics US comes to struggling Amisom's aid Missing men mar Déby’s win Railroading senators Third premier lucky Kidal's tense calm ANC cries 'mayday' A charter for trouble Parties to many disputes  Raiders hit Gambella All change in Praia Morgan goes it alone Democrats under fire Big sister's olive branch Who's killing who? Fast one A barbouze returns  Sanctions steam Dividing Africa Viva Bafana Bafana Shrinking horizons Aydeed again Kérékou tries a comeback Keeping what peace? IMF cut-off follows secret debt shock Guptas fly out Guelleh opts for landslide Post-election gunfire Party pooper Union at all costs Economy thwarts Buhari Rabat's Cold War manoeuvre Zuma's many foes mobilise Desperately seeking dollars Kabila delays, Katumbi hovers Ponyo plays banker Africa probes the Panama connection A last blast for sanctions Justice in question Shein's tarnished win POW row heals Issoufou woos General's quarters Darfur votes under fire Little rain on Bongo's parade The shoo-in is booed off What price recovery? Sassou makes it modest Dollar curbs anger bigwigs Night of the generals Old problems for Sisi’s new faces Reshuffle and a long goodbye Clearing decks and debts Stop-go Simandou Grand Comore's turn The meaning of 'aid' Cleared by cash Terror on the beach Nyusi's resolve in doubt Bye-election fever Gordhan and Zuma slug it out Oromia erupts Drawing a line in Libya The power struggle after Hassan el Turabi Ganja grief Coup down under  Island mentality Voice of Babel Unsanctioned Bad luck Museveni's party piece Super-charged Mbeki Mandela's front line Another country, another law Born-again poll British bail-out Low flying More Lon – less Rho Lessons not learned Against the grain Which foreign policy? Eyes right Advocates, advisors and accountants Money and the military Monrovia muggings Funding fall-off Soldiers' schemes Last chance alliance Break for the border Oleaginous Diamonds, dollars and democracy Falling out parade Banker is as banker does Licence to print American in Africa Changing the guard Palace moves Donors defeated Offshore, offside Big Ben Ali strikes When the Pharaoh calls Can't stay, can't go Guptas 'to leave SA' Knock-out in two Ex-ally vs Sassou Guelleh's court shame Lungu schemes to survive Amisom struggles Blaise the Ivorian Death on the beach Cash in a cold climate Back to Ogoniland Trial of strength at the top Spender takes all It’s the contract election A disputed state of the nation Talk in New York, war in the Horn Naked guns Oil on its own Code breaking Edging and hedging General Chameleon Africa and the Vatican The fading Nats Cyril the suit Sacking the Sultan The political poison spreads Gold gain goes Past and present Bucks and trucks No vote, no peace Missing person What happened in Harare? Getting to the people Debts to Déby New leader's old problems Protest grows over Museveni win New danger in the Kivus One country for old men The fight moves south Stuck at the airport Zupta Inc. An arresting event Zinsou stretches his lead The political toll of Ebola ANC heads for the hills The great militant chase Zuma bows to business War for the soul of the state Angel on a pinhead Out of control Mad meat Soldiers hold on Asylum? No, thanks Succession battle Sisters and brothers Safer franc? Shuffling Inside or outside? War in the north Museveni's party Military mumbles Mutineers' mistake Heart of Anglo Army in brief  Condé strikes out on his own The long arm of Al Qaida The Nocal diet Bengal paper tiger Poll delay cheers Kabila Gordhan's short leash Off with his ed Rows in the echo chamber Peace deal stalls again Intervention that never was The logic of naira nationalism Mujuru goes for glory First ladies first How the next election will be won Army in brief  On the border Hands across the water Toes in the water  On the mend The state is sick  Missing godfather Tight fight  It's my party Fat margins King's pawns  Not in charge, yet  Together against Jerry  Too much truth  A return match  Blaming Blaise Frail constitutions The campaign gaol trail Banda on the run Africa tries to keep up Blow to yuan plan A cure that could kill Al Shabaab sees off Da'ish Democracy sans frontières AU force eyes Burundi Pentagon expands in Africa Currency crunch After the 'rising' – now reform and realism Fighting flares in Tete Border butchery Talking Sharia João's trip To Boutros or not My uncle, the President The king speaks out Rabat tries reform Dodging democracy Commonwealth collapse White Zulus Back to the kraal Café assassins Radio controlled Missing Mandela Holy days We split, they split Soldiers for sale Hutu guerrillas Bullet proof Intervention on the agenda Naming of parts Digging deep Sall tries to look strong ADO looks ahead Tough people, weak leader President on probation Issoufou the insouciant Rumblings among the rivals Investment and insecurity 2017 polls cast long shadow An implausible government Division all around Make or break for Nyusi Political earthquakes ahead The survival imperative Strong man, strong growth Power cuts may sway polls Big tests beckon for Buhari New ideas, harder times and a few surprises Buyoya perhaps Dust on the diamonds Biya good boy Pré carré revisted Lungu hangs on 'Greater Addis' anger New SEC rules Edmonds in Ethiopia The Kinshasa shell game Soro has phone trouble Taking down Tompolo Pig-in-a-poke or panacea? EFF's economic roadshow Dissent dogs DA leadership Jacob Zuma's costly week Luanda rewards its own Buthelezi's battlers White power Changing gear slowly Warning from Addis Malay straits Chasse gardée Making a hash of it No man an island The people's land Museveni's new model army The foreign fronts Aydeed's legacy Divided they rise Towards breaking point Police under fire for excesses Cognitive dissonance The Brits are coming Attack targets peace deal Cyril looks to his heartland Pepsi's political partner The return of OPL 245 Hage's big tent Base motives Vive la différence Chinese inherit law suit How real the zeal? Nyusi's nightmare Stalemate over Koidu diamonds as economy sinks Miami vice Politically correct Guéi goes Balance of terror The boss is back Lissouba lite Gloomy boom Opening up the ANC Go East, young man Hot pursuits Less funds for guns Man-made floods Military operation No more Nujoma Deft Diouf Sorting out Savimbi An uphill struggle Holding out hope Fight, don't talk Museveni's pipeline dream Unclear for take-off Big bad John Grace plots for power PF scrambles for support Poor turnout in Dakar The figures don’t add up Curses and compliance Issayas looks north Buhari resets the clock Koidu's future in the balance Heave ho Standing (by) Corruption cancer No news, good news Have petrol, will travel Bombs and plots Four-wheel drive Follow the Guide For sale Troubled Times Arming for trouble Cashiered Aggiornamento Against the odds Chilling Chiluba Hussein is not Aydeed Abacha's agbada Privatising politics Dlamini-Zuma bandwagon speeds up Private guns Capital calls No vote for UNIP Rebel revival Election enterprise Close call The balance of forces Zaïre starts to crack The details left out of the deal The who and the how of the presidency The cauldron boils again Ouattara walks it Zuma man hangs on at SABC The oil and the spoils Donors stop donating Katumbi treads a fine line Guelleh battles in court Isábel's auntie Minority report Capital flight Turabi sans papiers Zanzibar faces poll re-run Condé consolidates as opposition regroups Condé's surprising knockout Richer military, fewer voters Uhuru bans bad bills Dialogue of empty chairs New maps, no peace CCM faces close vote Wing and a prayer economics ANC looks in the mirror Uhuru's frequent flyer card Hunger strike stirs dissent How Dhlakama and the peace talks were ambushed In the palace Prize and prejudice Kinshasa questions Shooting in the mansion Escapades Surviving and thriving Francophone friends Arms against a sea of troubles Sankoh signs up Africa's loss The real thing Moi-butu No confidence Echoes of Zaïre Dissonant voices The missing coltan princess Red sea rivals Condé's shadowy foes Term after term Amisom loses friends Rise of the third termers Piling on the goals The General's last days IBK ploughs into trouble EU ups security demands At last a cabinet, and now for the policies A hard homecoming Return match What's left of the left? Strikes and successions Blood returns to Bangui Another free pass for Khartoum Luanda seeks Eurobond lifeline High Court awaits Guelleh No go for Greens EU in denial Tongue-tied BBC End of ZANU-PF economics Opposition blues Court rescues Koroma Frank’s fickle fortunes Battle for the bureaucrats Trembles at the top The people take on the putschists Hope Springs Costly deals In suspense Nuts to the Bank Voting amid terror Mining for trouble Low key in Ouaga Border brothers On the road GATIA digs in Amisom on defensive Miner wobbles Timis under scrutiny The party rebrands for the polls The old demons return First laws, then parliament Bad timing Warming up the Kenyatta-Museveni axis Small fish chase big fish A vote too far In league with Zuma A helping hand from the Washington twins Opposition watches and waits Dash for gas cash ICC aims at Kenya Hage heads off land protests 'Lowassa fever' catching Swiss probe in Conakry Hardliners to the fore Spyware and the state The 'Grace plot' thickens Ellen calls the shots Launch of a bandwagon The woman most likely… Concessions and complications in the IGAD deal Regional rivalries surface among peace-makers The latest last-minute deal Where did all the money go? The opposition fall out Rawlings does it Passing and wielding the baton Politicians undermine new peace deal In remembrance of Stephen Ellis Stephen Ellis, 1953-2015 Mote and beemer No offence, honestly Left and right on the Rand Public sectarians Cracks in the ANC monolith Kabila clouts Katumbi How to be popular Bouquets and brickbats The Sampil truth Whose line is it anyway? Fighting graft, Buhari-style UK probes Soma’s local ties From East to East Attack prompts security reshuffle Guards old and new Impeaching and impeding Seeing red on Zuma Fifteen on file Goalfest in Addis Sall and the separatists Ruling and unruly parties Hack exposes state spies Condé pushes for new mine Unfinished constitutional business CCM springs surprise The franchise war between Al Qaida and Da’ish Southern discomfort Coming to America – the sequel An offering to Obama The clock ticks faster UN: 'unfair, unfree' War mars independence day The soldiers return Too many cooks spoil the books No end to Banda’s odyssey Why the peacekeepers stay in Darfur Shabaab's surge A federal farrago Attacks bring 'state of war' The ones that got away The fishing deal got fishier Ivanhoe rides into the elections Facing sanctions Save the children A nation in waiting An accidental arrest Petrol projects trouble Do as I say, not as I do Nkurunziza ploughs on 'Lack of focus' on Ebola The discord lingers on The men Issayas depends on Let my people stay Risks of a hasty exit A peace deal, against all odds Fugitive flees as courts sidelined Drawing the battle lines Talking longer term Win big, win all Hair shirts of the Atlantic Money worries CNC: who is who? The election gets messier Prosecuting the prosecutor How far to push Guebuza Impeaching number one Desert war, Bamako rumbles Cash for power and transport Bank finances face big new demands A double first for Nigeria Reconciliation for beginners Military balance Cash for loot Massacre? Moi? Students of separatism Ethics question for Obama Uneasy lies Zuma’s head Crashing car barriers Taxing tensions Bye-bye unity The President digs in Polls poser for politicians Delta, dollars and Downing Street Buhari sets out his agenda Crime still pays Part of the union Sam Pa's pals in Asmara Road to oblivion MNLA on the back foot Maimane wins leadership The runaway gravy train Revenge culture Sufism’s soft power Outward bound Forgiveness, its own reward Winning battles, losing wars The military moves against Nkurunziza's third-term bid Grandstanding Guelleh The other crisis LNG plant held up The code breakers BRICS on the rocks Frelimo’s hit parade Illegal gold exports Roots of a governor The best man not standing Pierre nears the precipice The President’s new clothes Enhancing elections EU adopts 'weak' code Shame about the list APC to lead with a leaner team Rising hopes, falling revenues So far, so bad A no vote election Coup plotters sentenced Passport to penury Kampala murder mystery Biya’s emerging dream Poison plots and power games New beginnings Troubled road to liberalism Garissa security shambles INEC and high-tech Mending fences 'No condition is permanent' Nyusi finds the cupboard bare Cold war at Eskom A farewell to Armando Grand union on show Karim's presidential appeal Game of provinces Bye any means Positive deterrence Fresh doubts over polls Easy on the landslide Mining companies get their way Lungu returns the favours Jammeh cracks the whip Spending for victory The rigging in Rivers A moment of truth for the General One-way ticket Votes, damned lies and opinion polls Geingob goes for continuity Kaberuka moves on Koroma lashes out 'Gbagbo or nothing' Muzito's Waterloo Diamonds’ best friend Blurred lines and child soldiers To publish or be damned BEE worsens mining outlook Sinai militants rebrand A new flag in North Africa State’s oil role under fire Presiding without policy Lake murder mystery No room at the top Concern for King and court Ins and outs of the oil companies Move closer Justine Greening Dai Zhikang Astan Coulibaly Mamphela Ramphele Football fever Africa is our future Construction boom ahead Unacceptable demands A trillion-dollar promise Mixed messages Talks on illegal timber KCM on the back foot KCM on the back foot Huawei in corruption probe China Kingho targets multiple projects Trees fall in the forest Essar on hold New plans for Simandou Indian companies top the transparency pops Tsuyoshi Okamoto A new phase of China-Africa cooperation Le Duong Quang Solomon Kerzner Sunil Bharti Mittal Africa gets into the driving seat Dilemmas over power cuts and shortages Chinese partners make mining projects viable Sparklers for Beijing Jean-Baptiste Natama Lasro Simbolon Jan Steenkamp Tress Bucyanayandi Making Djibouti a logistical hub Lamu corridor lags behind Concessions clear the way for Bong Mine Future shocks fund The titanium rush Controversy over contracts Wooing Juba Mega-projects and mega-ghost towns Closing tax loopholes Ex-army officers fast-track power plant Look East again The numbers game Grab first, drop later Security climbs the agenda Beijing will connect your call Bonding over bourses Asian banks spread across the continent Timeline of the ICBC - Standard Bank deals The financial ties that bind Mohd Emir Mavani Abdullah Iqbal Survé Rahul Dhir Pham Binh Minh CNPC suspended Vicente and China Sonangol Clashes but Sime Darby deal goes ahead Intervention for the non-interventionists Deals miss election deadline The attractions of coal and gas Billions for ADO Africa and the great Chinese slowdown Trade levels rise and rise How the big projects fell short Diminishing returns in Beijing Koroma nets $6.5 bn. deal from Kingho Kang Chang-hee Subhanu Saxena Meng Jianzhu Malusi Knowledge Nkanyezi Gigaba Hoàng Bình Quân Han Fang R. V. Kanoria Jullapong Nonsrichai Pipeline and transparency protests Tax troubles but business buoyant Seoul says no to youth export Spotlight on Queensway Group Miners out but no funds in Africa's bidding war Human rights abuses in Katanga Help for the East Chinese contractors’ delight Obiang loves China Li Baodong Hu Huaibang Masagos Zulkifli Armando Guebuza Doors opening Not in our back yard Youth export palaver Pipeline politics Elections and electioneering stall deals Small beer from Beijing Seoul food Angry envoys Dam number three at Inga Falls Too great expectations Agricultural revolution delayed TICAD V: An agenda for business Arthur Mutambara Jin-Yong Cai Salman Khurshid François Hollande Middleman at the gate One-horse race Financing deals finally take off Lu’s broadside at Western policy Sinopec strike Crackdown on illegal miners Kasai mines go to Anhui Teko trio on trial The grass is greener in Beijing Reality replaces Sata’s rhetoric Elias Masilela Toshimitsu Motegi Sanusi Lamido Sanusi Teodoro Obiaiang Nguemama Mbasogo Extractive pains Hanlong misses the Sundance deal deadline Fametal, SOKIMO and Ituri’s gold Workers of China unite – in Africa Experts only rule for work permits Ups and downs in palm oil Missing money The problems with CPI’s Boffa deal Simandou setbacks Triangular relations Criticism mounts but the deals keep coming The BRICS didn’t break out the bank Gao Jianke Prasun Kumar Mukherjee Lee Suk-chae Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono Hostile crowd awaits BRICS summiteers Red carpets and yellow cake Gécamines looks for Chinese funds Private companies under the radar Chinese investment reality check Murky glass houses Khama talks tough Compensation for smelter pollution Collum Coal Mine takeover Arab spring prompts soul searching Negotiating African risk Ali Mahmoud Abdul Rasul Arvin Boolell John Kerry Teo Eng Cheong Rotten timber trade Sanusi's message from Davos Trouble on the line South Africa scrambles for Africa Victory for local fishermen Costly deals and close relations Raw deals for Windhoek Learning from the East China cool on intervention China Union angers locals and workers Farmers take on agribusiness Cyril Ramaphosa John Dramani Mahama Park Geun-hye Shinzo Abe Growth in a time of global austerity Going strong Big projects and bottlenecks Abe backs business Chinese companies look for cheaper assets Year of the Snake Anil Sardana Zainab Ibrahim Kuchi Isao Matsumiya Awad Ahmed el Jaz Tokyo’s Africa aid birthday More dam delays China Union under fire in Bong County Tshwane sets agenda for BRICS summit Asian ambassadors offer economic advice Political diamonds Chemical of Africa in Lubumbashi pollution row Mining companies face more scrutiny China Sonangol shows its hand Adapt or die Beijing’s new team starts work Lee Jang-Gyu Rob Davies Bahk Jae-Wan Yu Yong Rosewood scandal hits more Chinese companies Alger, la Chinoise Refinery causes more government headaches Asian builders get close to Inga billions More summits, more funds Calls for protection against Beijing’s exports Call me, maybe Political storm over Chinese gas contracts Bui Thanh Son Noel Naval Tata Pierre Nkurunziza Kim Yong-Hwan At the political coalface Tax treats stay in downturn Going with the flow China Development Bank eyes the Grand Inga Beijing backs Bamako’s army A temporary revolution Textile trouble CIF starts work in Zimbabwe CIF goes private for profit in Guinea The President’s new partners Fuqing crime and punishment Beijing bets on Dos Santos The takeovers will buy votes Kuok Khoon Hong Toshiyuki Kato Zanele Matlala Welshman Ncube Coal hard cash Mixed messages Construction fraud trio go free Trader beware! Getting the oil to flow again Back on the Mainland Rogue rosewood exporters ADO brings back the billions Investment relations Careless communication costs lives Vikramjit Singh Sahney Kim Hwang-sik Jean-Paul Adam Alexander Chikwanda Diamonds give you wings It’s only just begun Contracts and complaints New Delhi’s Development partnerships No retail therapy here Missing the sparklers Condé’s great giveaway To save a treaty Big promises abroad, more worries at home FOCAC V brings billions more Moncef Marzouki Cai Fuchao Mohammed Mursi Stephen Kalonzo Mususyoka A matter of private equity Traders, Ambassadors and Islamists Hang up and call later Miner’s missing millions Union takes government and China to task Bélinga back on the table This land is not your land President Sall’s priorities Parting gifts Partnerships, promises and failures South Africa looks east Pratibha Devisingh Patil Le Luong Minh Given Lubinda Kuniko Ozaki Undiplomatic diplomats Full steam ahead on the Marrakech Express Asian workers strike in Kwanza Sul A golden entrance Previewing FOCAC V Zoning in and zoning out Phantom economic zones Wildcats in the wild east Sassou draws in Beijing Hui Liangyu Amarendra Khatua Akihiko Tanaka Macky Sall Ma’s labours lost Coal is hot NDC hopes for Beijing election bonanza Steel while the iron is hot South Bank challenge to IMF and World Bank Redback takes on greenback Threats to Lamu lifeline Eight billion dollars, a mike and no peace Beijing faces both ways Vilasrao Deshmukh Masami Iijima Zainul Abidin Rasheed Saad-Eddine Al Othmani Air Tanzania soars no more Pressure at the pumps Competition for clusters Ma goes to Africa China studying Africa Africa studying China Think-tanks and policy-makers The three billion dollar question Wary of pipeline politics Condé wants quick results Sun Yusheng M.D. Mallya Wang Shenyang Desmond Tutu Boardroom row over Tokyo’s oil grant Containers of corruption The railway’s coming Cementing ambitions Chinese traders set up shop Too much competition Trading places New pressure on Beijing Beijing resets its Africa policy amid economic success Winners and losers in the contract rush Lusaka welcomes Asia, again Mohammed Saad al Katatni Bingu wa Mutharika Nalinee 'Joy' Taveesin Diamonds are a rough business The emperor's new house Refining relations The big diamond scam Gécamines strikes again Experts rate foreign aid Capitalists and communists Home, sweet Chinese home Illegal loggers taken to task China loses Bélinga Oil flows eastward Workers safe but oil at risk Fatou Bensouda Richard Sezibera Cyrus Mistry Pa’gan Amum Okiech Business doors open wide The diplomatic truce goes on Recognition mission Aggressive passivity India’s new frontier How the IMF helps Chinese companies The year of the dragon, again Alain Akouala Atipault Tsukasa Kawada Madhusudan Ganapathi Moussa Dosso Plant a seed It’s energy that counts Housing scheme crumbles Essar takes control of Zisco Kaunda settles Sata's differences with Beijing Alarm over security deal China and India join aid cooperation USA shapes Asia plans Pipeline problems Longing for Lamu A special relationship in the making Beijing’s gas loan tests IMF Gwede Mantashe Mahendra Siregar Wylbur Simuusa Recep Tayyip Erdogan Indian mining houses struggle for contracts The unions turn up the pressure National interests and hard cash IMF worried about Chinese loans again Frozen funds Diverse diplomats Maputo’s pan-Asian business plan Protection makes a racket Harare in the sky with diamonds Underground and under threat Wild cats and King Cobra Alpha Condé Jyotiraditya Scindia Yoshihiko Noda Mustafa Abdel Jalil Water and copper under the bridge China Sonangol is open for business Dalai Lama dumped again Rebuilding relations Faith, Grace and intervention The wages of Xin Animated investors in the diamond mines Diamond dealers Insider trading Ties will remain strong, says Sata Koichiro Gemba Lu Xingyu Patrice Motsepe Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi Harbour of resentment Timber company cuts corners Fire sale STX's house is falling down Zisco deal still kicking Vanishing truckers To Berbera and beyond Pulling away CIF’s welcome mat Betting on Boffa The revolution will be financed Nhial Deng Nhial Doan Xuan Hung Margaret Chan B. Prasada Rao Ready, able and unlikely A friend in need Towering trade Highway to development Get in line Build a better arms regime Arms trade treaty timetable Raids and rivalries Uganda to miss digital deadline Not so fast, Frank You can pick your friends Smart partnerships The Bulldozer arrives Shifting foundation Squatters, pipes and rails Slow movers Trucking trials Polish to a shine Progress noted Castles made of sand Sumio Kusaka Hillary Rodham Clinton Nkosinathi Mthethwa Sellapan Ramanathan Karen Agustiawan Park Kwang-kee Madické Niang Manmohan Singh: A reforming economist Spinning and sowing Doors open, doors close Aurora’s gold mine collapses Strategic depth charge Leading lights Contracts galore but no delivery Bélinga bonus, uncertainty for CMEC The charge for Africa Juba promises continuity for Asian investors Sanjay Kirloskar Maite Nkoana-Mashabane Li Changchun Manuel Vicente Trucks, triads and subs Making room for friends Big plans, small city-state Chasing China Give without counting From Dakar to Durban China Sonangol still hungry Shine on you crazy diamond Riding the rails Wang Tianpu Tarah Shaanika Kim Sung-hwan Odein Ajumogobia Building relationships Old debts and new deals One law for Zambians, another for Chinese What the doctor ordered Station to station Pitchers required Aftershocks Sino-Zimbabwe in the Marange diamond fields Trading partners Liu Zhiming Salva Kiir Mayardit Franky Oesman Widjaja Jen-Chih 'Robert' Huang Friends and benefits A new nation Road builders Good neighbours All roads lead to Beijing Surveying Sicomines Do it by the deadline Campaigns made in China Solid foundations Beijing and Delhi change tack Christina Tan Takeaki Matsumoto Chung Joon-yang Mthuli Ncube What’s mine is mine The island scandal calls home Opening the tent It’s mine The Great Dyke anomaly Platinum-bottomed deals Who can you call? Can’t pay, won’t pay Minding the mines Andry's Asian alliances under fire Election funds? Try Hong Kong Sriprakash Jaiswal Park Young-june Seyoum Mesfin Makiko Kikuta South-south support Sowing seeds Building without BRICs Japanese flip-flops The home front ‘An emerging priority’ Top in trade and investment Kim Jae-shin Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba Wu Den-yih Xi Jinping Triangular trade India sets the pace Rust never sleeps The Asian aid summit Seoul’s new strategy How to plan the planning The next big plan Digging deeper Beijing’s balancing act Ravi Ruia Andrew Mitchell Vital Kamerhe Wang Min Best laid plans TAZARA troubles Bullets over Darfur Doing the Charamba Chinese trains for TGV Hyperactive relations The price of debt forgiveness Diplomatic wins and aid wobbles Stalemate in Seoul Gong Jianzhong Seiji Maehara Meles Zenawi Ratan N. Tata Win-win turns to win-lose Cooperating with Cohydro Blood diamonds and old soldiers India follows China’s lead Spooks, not railways Building a Chinatown in Catembe Maputo opens its markets China Hyway Group’s mines-for-roads deal More contracts as the vote looms The cost of Ghana’s Asian Alliance A consensual affair Shoot first, negotiate later Liu Yuhe Osamu Fujimura Felix Mutati Chun Seung-hun Downtown crackdown Seoul's modest but steady progress Friends and competitors Aiming high Beijing backs Nairobi over Omer el Beshir China weighs its options In the BRIC of it Relations have never been better Queueing up for Lake Albert's oil Lining up for Jubilee Frank Timis Liu Zhenmin Mswati III Lee Yi Shyan A Mugabe shakedown at the Shanghai Expo Luanda's oil lifeline Beijing offers an iron bailout Vietnam's two-way trade Hanoi's great leap forward Coalition of the controllers Beijing beams its messages Scepticism grows over STX houses Gadaffi guns for Seoul's spy A golden child in Zuma's family Oil - after independence Wang Gang Hamidon Ali Wang Jin-pyng Manoj Kohli Choose your poison Take the diamonds and run Changing sides with profit Beijing gazumps New Delhi A whale's tale Telecom troubles And the winner is...the CIF Fishing for votes CIF sitting pretty in Guinea Balancing act S.M. Krishna Xia Huang Morgan Tsvangirai Chen Bingde Building an improbable railway Get in the game Is what is good for Zijin good for Congo? Out of the starting blocks Private grief, state cash Taxing times Fertile fields for India The highway on trial Beijing in the line of fire Mike Hung Ajai Chowdhry Stan Mudenge Slow to let go of Hitachi Nguyen Minh Triet Beijing digs deeper into Zambian mines The long shadow of dollar diplomacy CIF, Beijing’s stalking horse Building on oil money Beleaguered Bélinga Asian solutions for Africa’s refinery problems Oiling the gears Tweeting Tharoor and the cricket controversy Round-trips and hot money Mahmoud Mohieldin Stephen Shu-hung Shen Lee Myung-bak Jia Qinglin Nuctech’s nobody More ore, more problems More multibillion mining contracts for Kinshasa For Punjabi farmers, an African frontier Wanted: special partners CADF in Africa: Deals from 2009-2010 CADF in Africa: Deals from 2007-2008 CADF expands Africa network Naruhito Zhu Min Roger Busima Kataala Kofi Annan Monuc moves out Banda bags a billion Victory for the Kinshasa vultures Reshuffling Luanda's Beijing connection How militias control the mines New pressure on China deals Companies and contracts under scrutiny East-West Highway to trouble Evariste Boshab Kim Hyong-o Anil Agarwal Donald Kaberuka China Union’s clouds have iron linings Anti-Asian strength in numbers Beijing's builders are back Tullow takes Lake Albert Asian national minnows Untoward Indian tillers RITES not right Fixing Kinshasa's broken boulevards Kinshasa’s missing millions How to manage expectations Yin Zhuo Li Qiangmin Shin Kak-soo Mohammad Hamid Ansari The year ahead Sitting on the fence Deconstructing Chindia Academics find holes in China's Marshall Plan A year to mend broken promises Stanley Ho Musa Kusa Song Sang-hyun Kasit Piromya World Bank to link Africa and Asia Hurry up, wait and renegotiate All that glitters is mine Grease for the wheels of friendship New men for a new push A useful deal in the Delta It's not over until it's over China's positioning in the Kosmos Mortgages and minerals The Liberian contribution to the stir-fry Beijing's bankroll for Bong's ore Ahmed Aboul Gheit Rajiv Sawhney René N'guettia Kouassi Xu Jinghu The rice run-around An electric strategy Seoul brothers More catalyst than juggernaut FOCAC 2009 brings more promises Chinese promises, made, respected and broken FOCAC meets expectations China Sonangol targets Harare’s gold and oil The junta rewards new friends Zhao Jianping Phung Dinh Thuc Shashi Tharoor Chin-tien (Timothy) Yang Power surge in Addis Cameroon/Asia: New farmers from the East The next great land sale The race to give Museveni what he wants Abuja writes the playbook, Beijing brings the players Graphic: China International Fund's web of public and private backers How the Sino-Angolan alliance works The faces behind the funds Blood and money in the streets Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary Srinath Narasimhan Katsuya Okada Jiang Jiemin An oil barter rescue The great South Korean commercial offensive Nuclear-fuelled relations Financial follow-through Africa slips down the foreign policy agenda The oil revenue row Telecoms domination in three fell swoops The Luanda-Beijing axis targets Guinea Luanda diversifies its portfolio Map: Asian money and African mines Jiang Weiqiang Yasukazu Hamada Sizwe Nxasana Gurjit Singh The rice and the rot Gagner-gagner - they claim KNOC, KNOC, who is there? Beijing debates world's biggest aid fund African officials ignore labour abuses Labouring the point South Africa's arms deals with Asia Wade's monumental error Strategic resources and global rivalries The race for strategic minerals Small corridors of power at Nuctech Beijing in scanner scandal MTN, militants and share claims MTN-Bharti merger Mittal's meltdown China woos the team of rivals Undue diligence in the timber sector End of the line for Durbar Al Qaida may target Chinese in Africa Tokyo's new loans for Africa Michael Chilufya Sata Seiko Hashimoto Dai Bingguo Najib Razak ICBC's toe in African waters Leaky dam builders Billions for all Minerals meltdown As sweet as chocolate Tug of war Wade's skyscraper legacy China's trains, Zimbabwe's tobacco Re-enter the dragon Zhang Ming Musa Hitam Nong Duc Manh R.S. Sharma Kim Yong-nam Yuan Nangsheng Hirofumi Nakasone Thaksin Shinawatra With your permission Friends in the right places Contract confusion Not the promised land Oil, votes and Beijing A shake-out after the crash Washington adjusts to the Chinindia factor Somalia tests maritime solidarity The battle for the Indian Ocean Wu Zexian Pradeep Kumar Chaudhery Nobuhide Minorikawa Pornthiva Nakasai Not learning lessons Where confidence is currency Old King Coal If not trade or aid, then what? Big numbers on Congo's telecoms projects Debt, markets and Beijing Abuja's Asian connections From win-win to lose-lose Deal or no deal The Bong revival This wheel's on fire Ditching the Dalai Lama Yukiya Amano and Abdul Samad Minty Shantayanan Devarajan Alphonsus Chia Chung Mun Victoria Kwakwa Banking on secrecy When Irish eyes are smiling Seoul's safety in numbers A target of the revolution Business is politics A 'challenge and a big stress' Missing the target Diamonds in the rough Bank East The sun also rises T.C. Venkat Subramanian Yukio Takasu Ma Ying-jeou Hu Jintao The new Conakry order Beijing news network Best friends again Iron in the soul Contract shuffles What's yours is mine and... Vultures over Kinshasa Twixt Beijing and the IMF The born-again Bong mines A more perfect union Ghana's votes and China's dams Another new world order Ploughing new fields Delhi defies the downturn State agencies lead the way Good intentions meet reality Africa tests rapprochement Ibrahim Ali Hassan Cho Hwan-eik Chen Deming Muhyiddin Yassin Never mind the yuan, feel the ideology The twins and trade The power of the provinces The waiting list Crumbling cement Tokyo's plans Nkunda's anti-Beijing card Go East, old man Liu Qi Tenzin Gyatso Deepak Kapoor Vu Tien Loc Uwe Wissenbach Kamal Nath Kang Man-soo Wu Bangguo Diplomacy still has dollars for some Washington wants the details Mapping the arms sales New forces in the arms bazaar Seoul search in Africa The honeymoon is over Chen Yuan Jairam Ramesh Motoyoshi Noro Chin Dong-soo Xu Jianguo Wang Yi Shamsudeen Usman Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Nobutake Odano Not working out Ticad Talks A $50 Billion Handshake How Africa could feed itself... And Asia too Two continents, one food crisis Chalo Africa In the Navy The Delhi Durbar Masatu Kitera Tiong Hiew King Akhil Gupta Hu Deping Reviews and renegotiations, again No oil guarantees Contract Cavalcade Who's who in policy and politics Slim differences among the parties The Yokohama summit Francisco Ou Jignesh Shah Ken Costa Family feud Glass Houses Chips off the old block Japan-Africa trade and aid China's African expeditions 2002-2008 Probing the Peacekeepers Asia's oil interests in Africa Unravelling the UN investigation Singapore's Africa Team The wealthy autocratic model Civil society tiptoes in The new order Here comes Hokkaido Chi Jianxin Nguyen Tan Dung Purnomo Yusgiantoro Justin Yifu Lin Lee Won-gul Zhai Jun Szechwan samba Lights off The copper clashes K.V. Kamath Firing up the coal All politics is international Hassan Wirajuda Changing horses West Africa looks east The trains don't run on time From Tokyo to Bamako Single-minded politics More policing of the peacekeepers Speedy motors miracle Number crunching Cementing new relations The tough trade talks after Hokkaido Lou Jiwei Competing to finance Africa Suppiah Dhanabalan China's battling banks Developing and insuring prosperity Wired for growth Murli Deora Jean Ping How to spend it Asia’s pills for Africa’s ills The water margin Any more business? Year of the rat India's nuclear family Delhi reaches out Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu Li Jinjun Anand Sharma Ramakrishna Sithanen Blue helmets, red faces Tokyo's test See you in court Flying higher Washington, Beijing or African consensus? In deep water Three is a crowd Constructive competition The Beijing development plan Ren Zhengfei Partha S. Bhattacharyya Choi Young-Jin Supachai Panitchpakdi Playing the odds Tokyo eyes the sparklers Ambitious investments Dollar diplomacy fails More competition for Tokyo Leading horses to water New regime, new policy Investment and jobs China, India and the vote The markets react A softer landing in the East Jiang Jianqing Masahiko Koumura Muhammad Yunus Liu Guijin Zhong Jianhua Li Ruogu Ban Ki-moon Kamalesh Sharma Raman Dhawan Mohamed Hassan Marican Yang Jiechi: Chief Diplomat of the Road Akihiko Furuya Africa's Chinese guests China Eximbank projects in Angola Coming cleanish on the money The new men in place Contractor controversy Reverse thrust Permission to come on board? Pirates of the Red Sea China returns to Africa Seoul's high-tech axis Smaller is beautiful Dam payment Trade: Choosing China Champions of commerce Checking the assets Diamonds are not forever Quiet on the eastern front The great building race Another chance for Asia Beijing, the rebels’ target Bringing it all back home Soft power & the glory Tokyo raises its game Strategic partnerships Charting Africa's Chinese future La grande bouffe Hands across the water Shifting sands With friends like these... The battle for Ndjamena New order, new deals China's Nova Luanda Big oil, high stakes Polls fail to relieve tension Truce trouble Damming evidence A shot at devolution Complicated confiscation The politics of dumsor-dumsor Oil interrupted Museveni gets his refinery To vote, talk or fight A test of everyone’s will A dream deferred Welcome back, General On the waterfront More war, more talks Running for cover The debt dealers Blanchard's beach All fall out Flawed Landslide Old wines, new bottles Keep trekking Mining concessions, traders and investors Business at war Pas si joli Body of evidence No-fly zone for legal eagles The mighty fall After prayers, no miracles The Ebola bonanza Air turns blue Poll date set Obiang’s own goal fest Between street and barracks The friendless mediator Old faces, old problems Massacres in the mist Policing the vote Democracy delayed A rowdy state of the nation Out of Africa, taxes London's security aid Census suspicions Obiang's goals Kabila's conundrum Lots of gunboats, little diplomacy US security and Chinese capital What the prosecutor saw Doubts over banks sell-off A year of decisions after a decade of growth Narrow win stretches nerves Boeing bellyflops Across the river Across the lake Kabila yaka! Nimble in Ndjamena Cabinda to Kinshasa Trouble next door Baby Tiger Marching to Juba The frontlines grow longer The Zaïre effect Baker's new brief Kolimba and critics West African wager No peace, no war Ghankay versus the rest Talking of votes The new order Kabila's long march Going with the flow Democracy deficit Mswati mobilises Second thoughts Trading places Cop out Comrade shareholders Langata landmark A bend in the river Oil fuels Luanda panic ICC murder mystery Elections face new risks Long tunnel, glimmer of light The politics of Ebola More presidential powers You say Morocco New cabinet brooms Plugging the gaps New crisis, new banker Sejusa’s mystery return Hery hangs on Planning puts power first The federation tango Ouattara looks at second term PF set for victory The year of leaving dangerously Watching the dust settle The long goodbye CCM faces apathy Not a popularity contest New faces, old issues Turbulence trending Hell no, he won’t go IBK on the back foot El Sisi consolidates Economy up, security down Special preview edition: Africa in 2015 Rape row Treading softly What the ballot papers say Blé Goudé's bad day How guns colonised politics Pick a power source The politics of power Gas regime is getting there Uneasy peace on the border Political storm warning Freetown under fire on Ebola Central bank cracks whip The opposition shows a new political will Malaysian money II Malaysian money I Cape town crisis Small headache Sankoh sticks out Mineclearers incorperated Seeds of death Garang manoeuvres Deep foreground First, the good news Route to the sea The green line Alliances Mangope on trial Unresounding Play it again, Sam Budget stress Hard bargains Oil the wheels It's not over yet The battle for power King size Spiking Syria Outside agents Still at the helm Old Nick's back Press harder Budget block Shuttling to Arabia The countdown begins How the case was won Exit Mujuru, enter Mnangagwa French Fire Biligual diplomacy Shoot on sight The oil front High rollers roll low Tough Tinyefuza Generation game Itahad international The Sodere spirit Booming and bombing Tehran's ambitions Albright's team Digging in Kuala Lumpar can do In the front line again Worlds apart 'No money back' row Attacks claim securocrats Truth and reconciliation Grim down south Banda rejects Cashgate claim The succession war has begun Danger looms as piracy booms The PF picks two candidates Martyr or master-crook Sall clears the decks A tale of two cities Good banks from bad Power scandal rocks ministers Richard Hall The defenestration of Mujuru Oil price down, debts up Policies, what policies? Hard times for the revenue service Peasants against the pacts Bribery trial Slim pickings Queen-maker Scott Kingpin kidnap chaos Shoukry gets stuck in Rules of commercial engagement Loans for oil Diamonds fund rebels Gloom settles on economy Geingob for a shoo-in After the bombing, Jonathan declares Foreign boost for opposition Security leaks and party splits MDC can't exploit ZANU-PF splits Firefighters against an inferno Don't look now Bashing Bongo Nyusi's rocky road Fights before the funeral Splinter injuries Trovoada's return An executive not executing Pressure mounts on Zida Stepping up the fight against Ebola Party strife draws in white businesses The warning from Ouagadougou BDP squeaks back in Coalition time Clash of the Titans Cashgate, gaolgate Next stop, Rome Follow the money Mbabazi on the ropes Comrades in arms deals Doctors at large Frelimo wins, Renamo revives Africa’s growth plans face stronger headwinds Party rivalries grow as Sata ails Crisis returns as talks falter Bad time for an oil boom Fraud claims taint Frelimo win Frelimo braces for impact The world according to Khartoum Finding the funds Khartoum in fact and fiction ENI in the cross-hairs From Russia with love Power struggle Gauteng challenge Drama in court Critical votes and toxic loans DBSA moves centre stage Uranium profits decline Julius Malema in the dock Conflict over conflict minerals Narcotics links tarnish Frelimo Labour movement schism deepens Changing faces The fire this century Security changes mark a sombre anniversary Al Shabaab shake-up Power fraud unravels Calling all investors Saying no to the narco-state Kabila for ever Reshaping the army Never give it up MINUSMA minus one Nuclear secrets Frelimo turns the screws Putting US aid to other uses A bail-out for Beijing's sake Poor prospects ahead A deadline for the deadline Another warning New faces wanted Constitutional disassembly Turbo-charged competition Disagreements over dialogue President versus PM Oil blocks and shocks Dividing the spoils Opposition beams, Khartoum glowers More calls for Nuba talks Electioneering begins Trouble in the neighbourhood Popping the gas balloon Bickering over Boko Haram How terror twists the vote Rescue for bigwig debts Mice at play Reports of his death… the UPDATE ‘Cashgate’ crisis continues Ransom claims dog Biya Sata sacks Kabimba Juju versus Zuma Round 2 Capital flight Refinery deal struck Parliaments at sea New ANC Youth League is Zuma's own Allies lose faith Geingob goes for broke Oil, the political lubricant High stakes in the Sinai fight Inching towards peace Kagame's purge Crunch time for the unions Women and children first Biya's answer to Boko Haram Taking a chance on Casamance Brother with a difference Dollars, security and a few surprises The science of summitry The mystery men and the embassy bombings A moral victory 'Too rich to bribe' Sunny side of Washington Demarche in DC Embarrassing Biya Not waving but drifting Politicians as targets Who owns what? Jobs for the boys – and girls Gas, cash and votes The Ebola epidemic Contracts galore in the new order The coal train derails Heading for the hills Coup de Grace Red is the colour Letting a crisis go to waste No laughing matter Honour among presidents Princess Guebuza weds Proxy battles, real war The Jonathan surge After the amnesty, more amnesty Opposition misses tricks Writing development into law Invoking higher powers Seized farms haunt ZANU-PF Islamists strike back Polls beckon as Hollande flies in Put a faction in your tank Peace at risk Mini-Mobutu okay? Frelimo and Renamo strike peace deal Africa policy moves up the agenda Arms-for-platinum deal Who’s Who in French Africa policy Toxic loan fears grow More states less unity Intervention by consent A rally, not a revolt Shame about the politics Regional leaders take charge Banking on big infrastructure Puzzle of FDLR intentions Oslo cuts its losses Ruby wedding Macky the knife Bail for Baba More Gulf cash needed Famine ‘almost a certainty’ Baba Jukwa arrest rocks regime The trade-off Sudan's Islamist regime: key dates Political parties and the government Unhappy birthday Sanusi's political throne Ekiti, the shape of things to come The extra Nile The knock-out stage Ould alliance Hangings resume MPs demand answers Kabila defiant on third term The centre moves east Deal to nobble the MDM falters Aid row escalates Sata speculation grows Fighting flares in the Kivus Confused response to terror attacks Unsteady state of the nation Ripples from Kidal Koroma sacks top aide The Caliph's council The lesser weevils Cairo leans on Khartoum Fury over Vedanta Jonathan faces the north Alarm as oil production falls Take the lead if you can Adrift in dangerous waters Mutharika, the sequel Spills – clear as mud Oily bumps in the road Filling in the blanks The Red Sea missile drama Succession scramble Amnesty anomalies Poison politics Chaos theory Poll ends in farce Gertler the farmer Farm plan aims high Trust still dormant Sata health fears grow Enforcers freed Kinshasa challenges Luanda Politics intrudes on the economic successes A loyalist cabinet Turn out for the Field Marshal IBK ducks the blame for Kidal The President looks to his legacy Enter the General Sassou slaps Kabila Richard Ruegg Kershaw The men to follow Ellen The MIGs of Mwanza Only you Stand by your man The ripples of OPL 245 Election officials under fire Red flag over Africa Fixing the forces The end of the beginning Everyone loses Mugabe moves on Marange The last liberation election Clash of the dynasties Reversing the rot Parliament wants the President's head Richard Kershaw Trafigura takes over Sakunda Addis plan touches off riots The third eleven enters the contest Calling time on the killing Electrical storm Rio's grand suit My enemy's enemy Dos Santos turns the page Family business under pressure Regime's grip weakens Alarm over terror swoop Ghost workers stalk the payrolls Scramble for the top Politics and Pistorius in the dock Finance smiles on government Joining up security in the Sahel How not to refill a lake Vavi and the unions fall out Militant remembrance Man with a plan Beny fights on Nevers on a Sunday Kagame mourns – and warns Saudi Arabia targets Khartoum Buying while there is blood on the streets TV gold Bid for Sahara rights The civilians may be back El Sisi's spring offensive Terms of abuse Another Diamond raises cash for Harare Keïta's six-month itch Labour intensive Buyoya alone Trumpeting the Horn Fixing the finance Delta wars New fingers on Zaïre's trigger Hanging on Mystery militias Mrema on Marando Guides together Kabila in Kinshasa Hitting the thieves The parties line up Patriot games Regional rebound New arrivals – north and south Gesture politics Hanging on Congo guns Nouveaux venus Unhappy anniversary Technical wizardry Naming names Financial headroom The coup-makers Koroma's coup Face to face Mouldy money Addis and Al Itahad A brigadier calls Biya election Taxing troubles Some partners are more equal than others Kill the drill Dam leak hits Addis Out of reach Securing the rear Tight spot for Blaise Hitch for dam plan Issoufou’s Sahel agenda Chip off the old block There will be blood... and oil Bandas, Bingu and Goldfinger In cash we trust Grace under fire Not Charlie's aunt In between the killers And across the river Paid fighters – and their paymasters Chemicals Academic freedoms Taylor's gaolers Kabila's ghosts Constitutional counter Condé tests Steinmetz Polls at a price Going for broke The general's labyrinth Snakes on a plane Good news Genocide denial Aid argument Deaths foretold Putschists v. putschists Heading south More pay, less graft Après le déluge – quoi? Dialogue in dollars Great Satan joins the fray New Nacfa You didn't hear this Still inside ...and black ops White ops... Changing gear slowly Payback time Museveni's backyard Blood under the bridge Saba saba Free radicals Fishy tale NIF targets Mandela Microsplinters The oil hostage Time's up, again Fighting for top jobs Fela and his heirs 'I'll go home to die' Murder charges Diana Looking for leaders Cross-border crimes Less than economic A sweet tooth Trading arms Market forces Who will follow Blé Goudé to the Hague? Libya links worry Wall Street Clouds over summit Taylor's stitches Oil glistens Torture charge Not so accountable Manpower and muscle Legacy of war 'Corruption where it exists' No sanctions here Washington quandary Kabila takes on the UN No show Ill-gotten gains Death drives French leave Policy rethink Net politics Threatening 'good order' On the cybermap Asian tigers, African lions Security and trade top the Euro-Africa agenda Not at ease Junta versus junta Oromo talks King to move Biya's bad joke A sudden conversion Clearing out A dictator returns On fire Desert caravan Regional circle Democratic drought Winning against Winnie The General's transition Captain Solo speaks Enunciations from Edinburgh Bongo's beanfeast Voting for Driss Pax Nigeriana Cracking Koroma The border war Who is Hunzvi? Forgotten fighters Tarnished Rebranding Abacha Kabila's banker Sofia spree Buying the farm Post-coup purge De Matos makes plans The voting business Franco-phoney war Madeleine's mission Rights and wrongs Dokie's death Africa's role Cairo competes Back to the party Rule by authority After Yar'Adua Doing the business Ecobank's next act The last straw Sanogo case falters Senate for Morocco Testing the offshore limits Talks or treason trials Gas and hot air Huge rise in illegal logging Statoil on the spot The ANC’s top hundred Nkandla report hurts Zuma Unsuccessful successions A year of living precariously Undermined Cairo's round Rotters or plotters? Grassroots 'Next year in Kadugli' Nous pas bouger Close shave Big men, big countries, big hopes Hot chocolate Curbing the press Embarrassing Love from Jakarta Peace pains Targeting Club Med Rules of the game Desert diplomacy Zero tolerance Cautious but determined Plots, lies and videotapes State corruption complicates succession battles Talking Timbuktu No frills Energetic Mountain death Europe's concern Jump or be pushed Rene´ Inc. More than money Wall Street is coming Finding flagbearers More contras Rethink Political plane crash Kabbah's comeback Troubling the waters Tanoh goes as Ecobank cleans house Military muddling The contras return Righting the rigging All change at the Treasury Moi's last lap Lions and elephants Wrong number Freetown fracas Patasse´'s problems Conflict irresolution A diplomatic coup Savimbi's last stand The ANC's front line Mbeki's new machine Talking gas Who's in charge? Carpet crossing A budget for believers Union is strength The untouchables Moses in the wilderness African roadshow rolls Freed-up funds Not Alaafin matter Cross-border Khmercenaries Kicking off Starting small Southern rivals Clinton likes it From the shadows Room at the top Copper-bottomed Bamako sparks Secrets and splits Children of '68 Fighting over peace Living dangerously Polling problems New sparring partners Oil slick Long shot Lumpen logic A voting mirage Patriot games The China syndrome Uglier turns Blair-ites in the desert Army arguments Famine strikes Marking time Asking A.T.T. Barometric Short leash Talking drums Oil-rich, and poor Counting allies Peace means war Lines in the sand The Freetown fall-out EU official in probe A sage from Zamfara How to spend it Surprise shake-up Hopes pinned on big push Landmark deal Resuscitating democracy Falling out with the Mugabes Warning shot or loose cannon? Jubilee lays into America, too Violence takes new shapes Shooting in Juba, talking in Addis The political costs of Nkandla Which ANC will win? Intel tale Pain in the neck Murder again Seeking spies Laughter in adversity Hugging the opposition The euro cometh Buckingham's gate Private armies, public relations Murder in the family Cotton reel Mortgaged Masters of war Protection Of Kabbaj and King Brave new bank Keep on rollin' Counting chickens Bienvenue a` Ouaga A cardiac coup More gems Access denied Politics for sale Short changed Pipeline jitters Twilight Zone Mane's men Revolving doors in Abuja Abubakar meets Abiola The new order on parade Mane fights on Stolen votes Mortgaged future Surprise guests The allies fall out Embattled Kabila Standing on the south Long war, quick fix The President who never was IMF insiders Crane blues Arms cargo crash North-west nightmare The China re-connection What crime costs An exit for the militicians Frelimo picks a candidate Restrained budget could be Gordhan’s last Aid and ethics clash Ping's pop at Ali Hunt loses momentum The race opens up 'Torpedo the dam' Kabila wants cash for polls Nkurunziza nobbles opposition Poll systems under scrutiny No way to run a railway Isolation threatens Issoufou Why Uganda refuses to withdraw The battle for Malakal Trophy-hunters after Kikwete Data battles in Abuja Oil theft row escalates The El Sisi enigma Hassan Sheikh loses friends Zuma talks up the state The price of peace Tackling the trade in endangered species Wasting assets Peace process slows down Civil society under threat No end to deadlock Scandals to dominate polls Banda and the jets Blaise wants compromise Condé's house clearance Seats for dissidents Kissing cousins no more Renamo conflict escalates Fears for the new regime The wizard of Accra South Africa’s volunteer force New blood in old bottles Abe in Africa Hery must make his mark Tripling trade Big plans for 2014 Danger, road works ahead Gems may unpick European sanctions Donors up in arms A deal under duress Headaches for Benkirane Coup legacy lingers Parties jostle ahead of polls Après moi, moi Long shadow of 2011 Mid-term blues Abdel Aziz plays it safe Reform gives way to politics Take me to your leader Full steam ahead Geingob at last The statelets of the nation An early test Making the best of the boom Serval’s birthday evokes mixed emotions Rising up against Compaoré Poll shock alarms ANC Murder in the Michelangelo Risky hunt for a new leader Consolidation is the goal Economy billowing, politics floundering Mines and militias set mood Success needs succession The political stakes on YouTube The state cracks Staking it all on survival Chickens come home to roost The MPLA sticks to its course The politics of health Reconciliation and repression Zuma fights for his job Coup bid raises alarm Goodluck Jonathan loses the numbers game From power struggle to uprising Ruling party conference ignores crisis Cape to Cairo, again Changing the constitution Obrigado Graça Heads up for headquarters Saving Field Marshal Omer The fire in Jonathan's backyard Shoring up regional support Salini looks to expand Secrets of the dam builder More boots on the ground On the brink Presidential letter bombs When the clouds cried Vote on constitution nears Counter-terrorism force under attack The time of Mandela Sall struggles to stay on course Another dam under fire Arms-for-minerals trades exposed Kampala ousts mayor Katti goes for gold Carter’s quiet doubts Luanda cows Lisbon Concern over contract-farming Two divided houses Koroma’s legacy Deficit blues Small earthquake, President slightly hurt Mugabe's farm in sanctions row Frelimo unnerved The Atlantic ports puzzle Political class in turmoil Rocky road to gas economy Alarm over new debts Luanda shouts back at Lisbon MPLA insider faces charges in Brazil Self-inflicted wounds Little leadership and less oil Abductions fuel anxiety Country for old men Vedanta cools row Anambra kicks off the race Economic giants change places Politics versus the budget Struggles with the economy Angry Koroma lashes out at the press Media Bill signals fear of scrutiny ZANU-PF power struggles resume Election outcome still in the balance Khama disappoints on San Biya and the Bishops Lessons from Luanda Ransom? Moi? Feted and berated A dam for all On a wing and a prayer Jonathan’s dialogue plan outflanks rebels Rebels on the ropes Renamo and Frelimo back to the fray Fights over Kabimba wrack the PF Kony keeps up the terror Van Hoogstraten in airline sell-off The mystery ship deal The sanctions card is worn out Glencore and the fuel firms Shooting triggers reshuffle Physician heal thyself No runner for office Flare-up in the north Smart bomb for subsidies 'Pirates' free captains To go or not to go France wades in again African Union challenges the ICC Kenyatta mulls nuclear option Ibori treasure hunt to go on Troubled polls favour Condé Security crises threaten economic success Banda's fortunes turn Shaky Sall seeks solace End of Salvation September uprising Political mould starts to break How the parties will go into 2014 Coming to the aid of the party Gulf states to the rescue Neither military nor Mursi The warnings before Westgate Drill-ship in the dock Tender mercies Shockwaves after the shoot-out Ibori's loot at stake 'Failed feudal state' Gems make friends ZANU-PF expands its business empire No princes on the ballot Taylor goes down alone Keïta’s test of words and deeds Oil bids defy security crisis Reshuffle may not help Jonathan's chances Punching out the PDP Boardroom battles hit Ecobank Total loss Eclipse of the son A family divided The unforgiven Regional risks rising Head rolls in bank row Legacy of war A gamble on secession Kabimba loses his footing Boutef's miracle return Millions diverted in 2012 Sakunda fuels rumours Museveni on the defensive Mugabe shuffles the pack, again Demos galore New name, same game Yet another front Merry-go-rounds Frelimo may compromise Kivu on the brink Holes in Kabila’s big tent Bah reveals official links Two cheers for the Juba deal KK cuts a dash The waiting game begins Cracks widen in the PDP Economic tests looming Opposition turns to tax and graft The Court lowers the curtain Banda redraws party lines Omer needs friends Sexual congress Frelimo decides 2014 IBK's agenda Powers of separation How to grow crops and influence voters Who's backing the new regime? Test for Mugabenomics After the crisis, the crackdown Jammeh tightens the screw The diaspora strikes back Asmara and the Islamists Renamo ramps up the pressure Inside ZANU-PF's electoral coup Rajoelina fends off sanctions with new election law Koroma helps warlord escape trial See, they were out to get me The crucial M-Pesa and call logs Secret suit aims at ICC evidence Fury follows calm elections Couldn’t save it The Dar leader Knowledge is power M23 takes a hit Amaechi takes on Jonathan A power struggle, not a coup Elections judged a success Tilting at the ANC Mission impossible Gono on the spot over oil deals Row over exiles Crisis grows as presidential elections delayed again Shadowy third-term plan for Koroma Dress rehearsal vote Rushing and cheating Zuma's axe falls Bah humbug Youth check Geingob Wobbling and nobbling The vote on trial How the parties judge the judges Wanted: a winner for all 'Piracy' row with Sweden Ready or not, here they come A season in Elecam Leadership in limbo Rebels with many causes The Bodo spill hits companies and politicians The Delta catches fire again The succession question The Brazil effect Digging in on the Lake Diamond votes The agony and the ecstasy Devolution blues Keeping Simandou on track Dodgy dialogue Aweys at bay, Madobe on top Election fever and finance As the oil goes, the gas arrives L’etat, c’est nous The gay elephant Presidential wobbles The governors and the insurgency Inside the presidential fight Madobe consolidates in Kismayo Sheikh Hassan Dahir 'Aweys' breaks with Al Shabaab MNLA cedes Kidal Transparency's clear win Presidential exports Dam good connections The real power politics Ruling by decree Condé takes on Steinmetz The long, long vote count Mugabe wins voting day drama Abdel Aziz's uncertain grip Dam and blast it The Nile in numbers Tullow wins tax tussle Attack dents Niger’s image A bumpy ride to the polls New investors, armed and dangerous Turning the oil taps on and off again Unhappy anniversary A change of register Kagame flames Kikwete Gaffes on the Nile Countdown in Addis After Mali, Niger Justice may have to wait Riches on the yellowcake road Economy thrives, BEE slows The hill Banda must climb CCM circles the wagons The licensing run-around Protests fuel political crisis Timber rackets, gas booms The new battle for the Bank Paying – and fighting – for unity Bringing it all back home Electoral roll on, roll off Reverses in Jonglei Cutting taxmen Lagos leniency Please give strategically Three too many Brotherly love How to read the ‘conspiracy’ Déby’s enemies crowd in Gertler’s assets multiply Regions test Hassan Sheikh Dodgy defections How to win friends Enter the Muhoozi generation Talking Tinyefuza An insurgency without the oil Blocking the great reform bill Com-Zone, come all Upper house of cards A June meddling UNITA’s warning Hassan Sheikh at the wheel All at sea over drugs The economic underpinnings Pillars of the regime Keeping up with the Compaorés Not an honorary consul Testimony on Bah Impunity in Freetown EU brings budget support The rush to the vote Spoils for all, please Limits to corruption campaign Essential contact, the Cameron way Diplomatic diversions Law suits unravel Progress but... Kivu talks impasse Pleas to go Patience snaps over IMF Ex-Dauphin in the dock Clean sweep slows down The fight for Mount Simandou Rifts in the regime Tactics but no strategy The Abalone list Debt deal scandal revives Rise of the professionals On live TV, a swarm of lawyers A tough one hundred days Opposition on all fronts Military manoeuvres Faustin's pact Admiral of the white Beny bites back Deferring democracy The Quionga network Frelimo's gold rush Blade's think-tank regiment ANC wields the long knives Toeing the party online Independents in name Boycotts and masks Lords of misrule Training regime The campaign stretches out Beggar your pardon Security worsens Biya's second house Scramble for Nacala ZANU-PF wins the referendum No cash to count on Rifts over lake Lilongwe’s treason trial Don’t be a negative force Rebels everywhere What Juba gets from the oil deal After they open the taps West divided on aid scandal South African troops under fire Séléka takes power ‘With the thoughts of Meles’ Succeeding Sata Towards a one-party state Taking the hostage road Tap dancing 'Cruel and inhumane' Stay on, moi? Unhealthy finances M23 may be close to a deal Secrecy mars ballot deal Vote now, pay later Trouble in the hills Groans about growth Shocks and ore bodies Condé’s rainbow fades away A very British coup Credibility of the IEBC under fire The closest of shaves Trust question Piecemeal deal Democracy demos BRICS tug-of-war Splits prolong crisis Why are they waiting? Gordhan's budget balm The left-right clash on economics Guns, jobs and strikes The leaders in Lubumbashi The Mai-Mai and their commanders Militants target Katanga Eko Atlantic arises from the sea bed No visible means of support Girding up for the vote Swing counties hold the key Pitfalls ahead for foreigners Jubilee aims to win it in one Answers needed Daily pressure Swearing deputies Loyalty rewarded The new poor give less Spring in opposition’s step Banda takes on her deputy Jobs on the roads Kabimba looks ahead Qatar's cold shoulder Issayas staggers a little British military aid for Sudan Jihadists from Mali in Darfur By Skype from The Hague Nairobi’s governing passions Rocky road in the north Crisis in the command Maghreb’s early bath Torture in the dock Coup calls Bogged down in Bangui Olympio’s legacy The Puntland problem The recognition blues Salva changes the guard Losing ground at the AU Odinga’s fiasco Flashpoints on the margins Holding their breath I chose the deputy Alghabass ag Intallah changes sides The end of the beginning The power of the south Development vies with conflict resolution in Addis Blé Goudé arrested Secret shipment Funds query for Bangura ZANU-PF's loss French Somalia raid ‘was a trap’ Regional alliances shifting Wade’s barons under scrutiny Family bonds Après Biya fears Thawing the assets Not so open for business Purges and placements Ramaphosa’s price With Zuma to Bangui Bozizé back from the brink Abuja’s foreign legion Nouakchott on the spot Taking the fight to the desert Northern parts The longer war Democratic hustle Navigating the rapids Falling foreign support Let them eat fish Omer el Beshir’s New Year’s Party Khartoum in a corner Ailing and failing A race to the bottom A test for the constitutions The economic fightback The party isn’t over yet Django unchained Talk first, fight later Electricity and elections Politics goes to court Early start for Jonathan Harsh truths and high growth Mengi beaned in court Geingob reassures Trovoada sacked Zuma leaves nothing to chance Sadig calls for regime change Unity under strain Wilting jasmine Tax threat to IMF deal A country polarised Ructions over reconquest plan Captain Sanogo strikes back Rift risk over gas laws Shotgun wedding season Soro clouds economic revival The democracy question The Mahama factor Make mine a mine Imports and exports Zuma sweeps the boards The plot thickens ICC tries more with less Floating arsenals in legal fog SWAPO picks a new leader Licence to secede New strains on the Union Egyptians return in search of gold The new gold rush How politicians help insurgents Boko Haram looks to Mali Clouds over Koroma’s victory Why Goma fell Kabila looks into the abyss Expert opinions Sanctions bypass What price the Unity Party Undiplomatic corps ZANU-PF’s gem of a campaign Opacity for all Dodging Dodd-Frank Oil and gas prospects fuel lake row How the branches voted Zuma or else Breaking ranks in Kismayo Hassan Sheikh keeps it in the family Juba runs out of patience No spring in the step Sesay and the city Elections 2012: Koroma in front Contributions gratefully received Elections 2012: Mahama ahead by a hair Bienvenido a Malabo Addis on a caution Was it a coup? Juba jitters Soldiers get ready Not yet spring in Mogadishu Opposition shakes Trovoada Sovereign wonga fund Three men in a boat Uganda accused Shell and the Delta litigations The $100 billion bash Khartoum’s military-industrial complex Target Khartoum Ghannouchi unplugged Abyei arrangement Guebuza’s new man M23’s other parent Changing tribal customs on J Street IMF finance for Mursi's new order Bankers of the world unite Borrowing big A poverty of strategy Fraternal rivalry Faure fading fast Ex-President Banda switches horses Big budget, big promises Winning them over one by one Zuma’s campaign pays off Handling the opposition Aziz’s power game Gbagbo’s Ghana connection Ouattara under threat again Regional confrontation looms Jonglei flashpoint Un-persons La Francophonie No new brooms Takeover at Kismayo Partial win for Guebuza Courting foreign business Campaigning begins First steps to stopping the stealing The grand corruption trap Election tax axed Sam stays on the ticket Mali a l’Amisom Come if you must Miners get bad reviews Financial faultlines Profits derailed Dead preachers poser Morganatic marriages Jammeh’s execution spree Opposition claims dismissed Luanda buys Mayfair trophy Aid threatened, conflict up As Amisom targets Kismayo, Al Shabaab changes tactics New president, new laws and old enemies The rush for land Kilelengwani burns New York showdown Disunited unions Zuma hits back as mining unrest spreads Mombasa murder The Mahama swing Sidelining Blaise Monitoring on hold Looting minerals Plunder unabated The Putin option Not out of the woods Hopes and fears offshore Politics over oil A sickly constitution Shift that coal Glittering prospects Rebels and defections Kabila seeks succour abroad Forex windfall test for banks Four more MPLA years Let them wear cotton The first oil election After a unifying funeral, a divisive election The case against Sam-Sumana President Mursi's soft coup Intervention plan revealed Ethnic arithmetic A rough, tough battle ahead The MPLA plans a landslide The Marikana massacre The other contestants Battle of the unions Mugabe's Maputo success The road home The man in charge, for now Rail to the chief Blaming the outsiders After Meles Clashes at mosques Three million euros in the fountain M23 moves up Former aide lashes Odinga Cross-border pollution Secrets are not forever Threats to Khama fade Sudan under protest The anti-sanctions race August will be hot Souvenir of Matebeleland It’s time for a vote Severely turbulent airline Biya swings the axe Death puts feuds on hold Vice-President in loan row Ivorian justice questioned The officers’ mess Obsequies and summitry Politicking after the mourning From no growth to low growth The missing host Stifling dissent No bang (this time) Sam with a plan The ball is in the court