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  • Rich countries slowly accept the pitfalls of vaccine nationalism
  • Border ructions escalate over Al Fashqa
  • Mboweni set to raise taxes and cut spending, trying to balance budget after the pandemic hit
  • Uhuru reshuffles and grows the government
  • Lisbon looks south
  • Apocalyptic warnings and threats in a week of escalating violence
  • Ace Magashule and his party allies plot their next moves
  • General confusion
  • Sall roots out rebels
  • A question of control
  • Green tax blow to Africa
  • Trouble in paradise
  • Fortune favours new regime
  • France holds tight in the Sahel
  • The captured spies
  • Shell retreats from the Delta
  • Politics of largesse
  • Far from obvious
  • The prosecutor rests his case
  • A presidential spoiler throws hat in the ring
  • Western pressure grows against Kagame over rights abuses
  • Activists question appointment of Briton as new prosecutor at beleaguered court
  • Farmers and fishermen free to sue Shell in landmark case
  • Row over delayed presidential election escalates
  • Questions mount over Macron's regional plan
  • After naira falls again, government raises debt ceiling
  • Ramaphosa evokes national rebirth with more jobs, power and vaccines
  • Partisan contests ramp up in the courts and parliament
  • Deputy President Ruto tries to sideline impeachment threat and lashes out at Odinga
  • Former Ambassador Manfi to head new interim government
  • Okonjo-Iweala to take over as WTO chief within days
  • All eyes on the African Union summit host
  • As Bobi Wine appeals against result, President Museveni plays nationalist card with European critics
  • Grandees at the memorial, a hustler in Mombasa
  • State of the nation – an austerity budget and corruption trials
  • Jagged path to elections
  • Nyusi's loyalty test
  • African concerns
  • Steinmetz's empire unravels
  • Fireworks on the streets
  • Tagwirei's hold on gold
  • Félix tips the scales
  • Shot in the dark
  • The guard changes, at last
  • Governments face a multi-speed rebound
  • Elections and crisis talks at the summit
  • More woe for President Nyusi as shipbuilder Safa drags him into $2 billion secret loan scandal
  • Opposition contender Wine asks court to overturn President Museveni's election win
  • Plot to impeach William Ruto gathers steam
  • Questions grow over timing and credibility of elections
  • Heavy lifting ahead after London's low-profile trade conference
  • Mixed signals about an election for a new governor in Nairobi
  • Another win for President Tshisekedi as parliament censures Prime Minister Sylvestre Illunga and clearing the way for a new government
  • Parliament backs cabinet reshuffle after a week of protests against inequalities and police brutality
  • Oppositionist Bobi Wine plans next move with party supporters after court orders military to end house arrest
  • After mounting security pressure, President sacks service chiefs
  • Steinmetz gets five years for bribery
  • Immune to diplomacy
  • No get out of jail card
  • Sassou soldiers on
  • The King's quiet gong
  • Both sides go to court
  • Outstaying welcomes
  • Victory under a cloud
  • Iron fist carries the day
  • Cyril and Ace's linked fates
  • Abiy risks more war
  • A scramble for vaccines
  • The race for Nairobi
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  • Opening the black box of Egypt's slush funds
  • Recovery and resistance
  • In intensive care
  • Nyusi running out of road
  • J-Lo suffers party backlash
  • How to lose a war
  • Bumps in the road ahead
  • Old demons resurface
  • Skirt and blouse politics
  • Election-mania takes hold
  • Mnangagwa digs in
  • Jockeying for position
  • Handshake to face poll test
  • Voting may not bring peace
  • Polls, parlays and proxies
  • Building the house of Sisi
  • Challenging the statist quo
  • Abiy’s search for legitimacy
  • Ready to rumble
  • Mapping the long road to recovery
  • Elections crisis escalates as Russian and Rwandan troops fly in
  • The state’s parallel economy
  • Out of the shadows 
  • Old treaty rolls over
  • Farmajo breaks with Nairobi
  • Two days that changed nothing
  • King reaps Saharan dividend
  • President nearer to power
  • Condé’s iron resolve
  • Unbalancing the books
  • Ace shuffles the deck again
  • Washington seals the deal
  • Abiy's mission in Mekelle
  • A twist in the election tale
  • Dauphin goes to the polls
  • Testing time for elections
  • SWAPO swept away
  • Long-distance leader
  • Pre-election jitters
  • The long arm of Addis
  • Tshisekedi’s moment of truth
  • The Hague’s unexpected guest
  • Museveni falls back on force
  • An uncivil union
  • Not so Roch solid
  • Protest, what protest?
  • Akufo-Addo keeps his lead
  • War resets the region
  • Citadel falls but the war goes on
  • Echoes of the dark days
  • Economy running on fumes
  • Creditors fume as the beat goes on
  • Anti-corruption boss 'no poodle'
  • By-election bust-up
  • Shooting and fishing
  • Too low, says Mo
  • Competing on competence
  • A divisive plan for unity
  • Gunfight ends 30-year calm
  • Ace arrest boosts Cyril
  • Risks on all fronts
  • Hard choices ahead in Addis
  • Mounting protests face police violence
  • Fears mount of all-out civil war
  • Stress test for the Tonse Alliance
  • One last hurdle
  • Sick of everything
  • Insurgents cross border
  • Ouattara sweeps half the board
  • Elections and bust
  • Bad cop, worse cop
  • Stepping back from the brink
  • Pandemics stunt your growth
  • The 'Ramaphosa Compromise'
  • Election stirs up apathy
  • Generals tighten their grip
  • Bulldozing to victory
  • Hope without optimism for the new deal
  • Condé shrugs off poll doubts
  • Unrest simmers over economy and Covid
  • Frelimo flounders in north
  • Jihadists trade up
  • Diallo jumps the gun
  • No contest poll for Ouattara
  • A change of tone
  • A DIY debt trap
  • The limits on the economy
  • States carry on regardless
  • New debt demand as bondholders defer decision
  • Rage at the gates
  • Leaders seek poll boost from pipeline deal
  • Koroma probe risks backlash
  • Raila's path to power
  • Amina misses out again
  • Bottling Wine
  • The great bond bust
  • Which way is Tebboune facing?
  • Paths out of the pandemic
  • Tigray takes on the centre
  • This time, it's personal
  • Private capital, green shoots
  • How to make oil pay
  • Colonels concede – but not much
  • Ouattara leads in a perilous poll
  • Summit catches a cold
  • Junta names front-man
  • Juba shops for new image
  • Heavy Russian metal
  • Keeping up with the Kenyattas
  • Edo's not so merry-go-round
  • Buhari goes to the market
  • For sale: one used war machine
  • Surge of the insurgents
  • Default hits election plan
  • Strife hampers Bio's reforms
  • Watering down the wine
  • A government walkover
  • Africans in the lead
  • Credit Suisse names Guebuza
  • Sins of the commission
  • Listing reputations
  • First the good news…
  • Regions take on the centre
  • Building back bigger
  • How to defend the indefensible
  • Exile flies into a trap
  • A shaky start for the new broom
  • Cyril wins a battle over graft
  • Parties campaign as jihadists advance
  • The downside of a landslide
  • The governor and the guv'nor
  • Don't you know who I am?
  • Terms of re-engagement
  • Trading favours
  • Graft puts ANC on the spot
  • All power to the governors
  • Time to re-open
  • Inside the state capture project
  • The junta haggles on transition
  • No road back for Keïta
  • Bridgette's border war escalates
  • Noisy neighbours
  • Governments reject UN report slamming rights abuses during pandemic
  • The Kenyatta-Odinga deal starts fraying
  • Citing force majeure, Ouattara will run for a third term
  • From debt to aid
  • Plenipotentiary redundancy
  • Polls boss row
  • From a grateful nation
  • Clearing a path
  • Groaning about zoning
  • Pandemic prospects
  • Rivals fight for control of Sirte
  • Realpolitik, with plenty of guns
  • Fury greets Gertler report
  • In Edo, all politics is national
  • In virus veritas
  • Mnangagwa in search of enemies
  • The Presidents' club backs Keïta
  • Lissu heads for home
  • Public relations premier
  • Red lines in the sand
  • In search of confidence
  • Unhealthy ambition
  • Ugly compromises
  • The shake-up that didn’t happen
  • Fight in the last chance saloon
  • Clash of the leaders
  • A favourite for an impossible job
  • A state of disconnect
  • A dangerous wave
  • Oromia cracks open again
  • In it together
  • Ballots and bishops
  • Quest for a new dauphin
  • The temporary consul
  • Reshuffles and releases
  • Lobbying grenades
  • Media denied oxygen
  • Showdown to follow lockdown
  • Pandemic mysteries multiply
  • Lazarus rising
  • Doubts over post-slump bounce
  • Keïta clings on
  • A big tent for Moi's children
  • The pride of lions
  • Divided we stand
  • At cross purposes on world trade
  • Magufuli wants a mega-dam
  • Crisis summit as insurgents head south
  • Fake news flashback
  • Narrow gaps
  • Taxing targets
  • A golden hoard
  • An 80s classic
  • Locking down the system
  • Rose-tinted budgets
  • The big borrow
  • Frelimo’s belated cry for help
  • The pandemic's collateral damage
  • State companies in the firing line
  • Retreating from the stage
  • Back to the scene of the crime
  • Life without the 'Supreme Guide'
  • Farewell to arms
  • Making free with repression
  • The sick men of Africa
  • Keïta cornered
  • Damning the parks
  • Steinmetz deal bears fruit
  • Elections or bust
  • Haftar falls back
  • Shabaab’s surge
  • Uhuru takes it out on his party
  • The dearth of data
  • New chief, old battles
  • Ruling party wants a reset
  • From great crash to weak bounce
  • Affairs of state and of the heart
  • Poll chaos looms
  • Into extra time
  • West too wild for Haftar
  • No smoke without Frelimo
  • Brussels' boil wash
  • Quicker march for the military
  • Gangs of the Copperbelt
  • Genocide manhunt goes on
  • Economics in a time of corona
  • The one-party statesmen
  • Cyril’s lockdown limits
  • The $10 billion gas plant that never was
  • False report of an assassination attempt against President Kenyatta
  • The lockdown finds pushback
  • The governor's governor
  • Coups and consequences
  • Ministers and militias
  • Whose cure is it anyway?
  • Refugees in crossfire
  • Who wants an election?
  • Gertler tries to dodge sanctions
  • A clumsy coup
  • Tsvangirai’s house divided
  • Into the land of empty
  • The Magufuli experiment
  • Keeping the food flowing
  • The plot against Tedros
  • On the brink of sovereign default
  • Who wants the oil?
  • Thabane out of time
  • Bongo returns
  • There will be blood tests
  • Unpacking Cyril’s stimulus
  • How Frelimo lost a province
  • Kudos to the health-workers
  • Scientists unite
  • AU pushes Africa bonds
  • Zimbabwe government close to collapse as Ncube sends plea for cash
  • Abba Kyari, 1952-2020
  • Ambition runs out of gas
  • State takes control
  • Prosecutors arrest bigwigs
  • Duelling impeachments
  • Oil behaving badly
  • Rule by rivalry
  • Farmers back on agenda
  • Unpopularity contest
  • Freight storm hits the port
  • No more heavy lifting
  • Adesina Agonistes
  • The war for the cure
  • Heroes and villains in the pandemic
  • Hard bargaining ahead on debt and public health
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  • King takes charge
  • Tunisia pushes for peace
  • Pre-self-isolated
  • The spring unsprung
  • The fourth horseman
  • Bye bye boom
  • A diversion for the premier
  • Virus rattles SWAPO
  • Relying on the neighbours
  • No coronavirus ceasefire
  • Voters self-isolate
  • IMF backs rapid funds
  • Protests on pause
  • Magufuli the outlier
  • Locking down politics
  • Army steps up role
  • Debt crisis deepens
  • Healthcare for dollars
  • Lagos takes the lead
  • The Kabila Strain
  • Poll in a plague year
  • Condé goes it alone
  • Cyril's double crisis
  • Into uncharted waters
  • Third wave threatens the continent
  • Turf war over Sahel
  • Scotland under siege
  • In search of an envoy
  • All is forgiven
  • Ouattara and son
  • Frontier fracas
  • New party, old tactics
  • Cairo and Addis split over dam
  • The hit on Hamdok
  • The Emir exits
  • The fight for Jubilee
  • Ramaphosa’s next test
  • Avoiding the nightmare
  • That dam problem
  • They're back
  • HYPREP's millions
  • Forced delay
  • Newish but not radical
  • Relief today, trouble ahead
  • Democratic, for a dynast
  • Oil, guns and politics
  • Aides leak, north-east burns
  • Tito takes on the workers
  • George Weah at bay
  • Clash of the kings
  • Why Africa is key to Green Economics
  • Wildlife targets
  • Unhealthy bank balance
  • Itula has another go
  • Terrorists at the table
  • Territorial armies
  • 'Eco'-logical concerns
  • Spoiling for a fight
  • Ramaphosus interruptus
  • Opposition in flux
  • Generals on the run
  • Beshir's trials begin
  • The state of Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Zitto's democracy tour
  • Mining for clarity
  • Putschist walks free
  • Soro sounds off
  • Beyond a hundred days
  • King for a year
  • Lourenço faces the crunch
  • A game of many nations
  • Over the rainbow
  • Shock ruling resets poll
  • Revenues and resources are the key
  • The fight over the missing billions goes global
  • In the rough
  • Security flashpoints and migration in Africa
  • Terminal turbulence
  • Power struggles and inflation
  • More trickle-down please
  • Nyusi’s win poses questions
  • Regime reality check
  • Life as a client state looms
  • Desperately seeking legitimacy
  • Multilateralism falters as crises multiply
  • Sahel summit's fighting talk
  • Point of no return
  • Polls, poverty and protest
  • Advantage jihadists
  • Presidential action replay
  • Portents over the presidency
  • Back to the one-party state
  • Jockeying for position
  • Finally, Cyril picks up the pace
  • African spring, economic winter
  • The sins of the father
  • Talons on display
  • First among unequals
  • Another day of reckoning
  • The son also rises
  • Activist King vs the activists
  • Peace deal wheelspin
  • In search of allies
  • Not yet, Generalissimo
  • Pouring cold water on the mega dam
  • Hage's hubris
  • Revenge of the rejects
  • Off the hook
  • The default is mine
  • KZN plots
  • Seeking special status
  • Iron back on track
  • Grasping the Eskom nettle
  • Trump talks peace
  • States of expectation
  • Building shaky bridges
  • Hard economics meets political pageantry
  • Assault on Mount Kenya
  • Démarches et détente
  • Latest Vaz plot fails
  • Oil majors tax threat
  • Intrigue at State House
  • The DA's race dilemma
  • Unity or bust for 2021
  • Hefty down payment for 2020
  • SWAPO stumbles
  • Cashing in on the crisis
  • Brexit and a trade pipe-dream
  • Delta pollution damned
  • Ruto-Raila (round one)
  • Water cannon fodder
  • Islamic state onslaught
  • Addis calling
  • Dancing the third-term tango
  • Coalition of the unwilling
  • Two visions lock horns
  • Command economics on trial
  • Fighting within the ranks
  • Two-track talks on the grand dam
  • Where's the plan?
  • Prize fight
  • BDP ends Khama's fightback
  • Fury over ambassador's exit
  • The Ambassador strikes back
  • Tuna bonds in Brooklyn
  • 'Dump Cyril' move in KZN
  • Get out of jail cashcard
  • Short circuits
  • Backs to the wall
  • The politics of counter-terror
  • The price of legitimacy
  • Up against the slowdown
  • Frelimo takes no chances
  • The taxman cometh
  • Failing power
  • Out of contract
  • Fund on standby
  • Protectionism and patronage
  • Breaking the democratic line
  • Washington’s man wades in
  • How to pay for Salva's jet
  • The elite’s big election fight
  • Ramaphosa writes off coal
  • Hungry for change
  • Dissident doctor
  • Magufuli's challengers recant
  • Emirati casualties
  • What the finance minister saw
  • New names, same games
  • Of puppets and godfathers
  • The talking cure
  • Summit bid to heal crisis
  • All the general’s hotels
  • Rushing to the ballot box
  • Lourenço woos New York elite
  • Into the unknown
  • Bridge of sighs
  • Backhander back at you
  • Putschists put away
  • Fake broadcast news
  • Opposition out of sorts
  • The oil clean-up that didn't?
  • Frelimo squares the vote
  • Jubaland row heats up oil tiff
  • Spending on the hoof
  • Bridge over troubled finance
  • The China price
  • Mourning and machinations
  • Cash at the generals' command
  • Yes, we loved him once
  • Ramaphosa, right and left
  • Divorce Moroccan-style
  • Ruing the day
  • Hamdok's appeal
  • Peter da Costa
  • Juba's payday loan habit
  • No let-up in post-election war
  • ANC tries to stop the rot
  • Waiting on the general
  • Upstarts and old guards
  • Executive exerts its privilege
  • Power play in Harare
  • Activists take on the crisis
  • 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
  • Obituary: Stephen Ellis, 1953-2015
  • 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 incorporated
  • 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