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Europe offers a green embrace

A new €200 million concessional climate loan, and more than €270m in German and EU funding for projects focused on green hydrogen and battery value chains, were the...


DA triumvirate bets on black votes to break its political ceiling

Geordin Hill-Lewis's election as Democratic Alliance leader at its biggest-ever congress gives the party a credible shot at winning the country's top cities

The second largest party in South Africa’s governing coalition, the Democratic Alliance (DA) has renewed its leadership at the biggest national conference in its history and set its...


Hotel scandal undermines Mutharika’s reform claims

A parliamentary probe into an overpriced deal is overshadowing the President’s return to power

Barely six months into his second term, President Peter Mutharika’s administration is engulfed in overlapping scandals that are raising questions about his commitment to end corruption.


Mnangagwa’s war on the constitution

Arrests, abductions and armed militias mark ZANU-PF’s campaign for a constitutional amendment that would end direct presidential elections

When the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front ZANU-PF gazetted Constitution Amendment Bill No.3 on 16 February, it launched what opponents are calling a slow-motion constitutional coup. Senior...


ZiG, fuel and broken promises

A forced shift to the local currency for government contracts and a 39% overnight fuel price rise are squeezing businesses and workers owed billions by the state. On...


Boom at the top, struggle at the bottom

The oil revenues are rising, but with over 40% of the budget swallowed by debt servicing, the gains are not reaching those who need them most

When the Iran war pushed Brent crude well past the $100 mark, Angola’s government responded with caution. For a country that budgeted 2026 revenues assuming oil prices at...


Lourenço cashes in on the oil bonanza

The war in the Middle East has prompted Luanda to return to the Eurobond market

Less than six months after oil exporter Angola issued US$1.75 billion in Eurobonds to support its 2025 spending plans, Luanda has returned to the markets after the Iran...


Madlanga tests presidential power

Eighty days in, the commission of inquiry has exposed corruption, destroyed careers and trapped Ramaphosa between legal process and political survival

On 18 March, the Madlanga Commission entered its 80th day of hearings in Pretoria, with Gauteng Organised Crime Unit Sergeant Fannie Nkosi — formerly known as ‘Witness F’...


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