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Security crises threaten economic success

A new model for intervention forces emerges in Congo-Kinshasa, as financial pressures mount on other UN operations

A team of ambassadors from the United Nations Security Council flew from New York to Congo-Kinshasa, just as the season of UN General Assembly debates and high-level meetings...

Taylor goes down alone

Taylor loses his appeal against war crimes conviction as governments demand changes in international courts

The Special Court for Sierra Leone's confirmation on 26 September of the 50-year sentence for war crimes of Charles Taylor, the former President of Liberia, comes as African...

A gamble on secession

A private company claiming to have bought oil licences from three governments in exile is looking for investors. Several prominent secessionists sit on its advisory board

Kilimanjaro Capital is not the first company to try selling mineral rights in territories claimed by secessionist movements but it must be one of the most bizarre. It...

Beny bites back

Beny Steinmetz, the Israeli mining magnate who has massive investments in Congo-Kinshasa and Guinea, is suing the public relations company FTI Consulting and its Europe Chairman, Lord Mark...

Harsh truths and high growth

As Western bankers and traders cheer higher growth rates, Africa’s economists sound alarms about the lack of investment in manufacturing and new jobs

Celebrating Africa’s impressive growth rates over the past decade has become a growth industry of its own. Africa’s economies have been outpacing Eastern Europe, the Middle East and...

The financial ties that bind

While China’s policy banks are lending to governments, India’s commercial banks are on the ground working with businesses and consumers

Chinese state-run policy banks may be leading the way in providing state-to-state finance, but commercial banks from India are capitalising on their historical ties with East Africa to...

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Timeline of the ICBC - Standard Bank deals

ICBC's investment in Standard Bank has not delivered all that it promised, but it has nonetheless led to some key financing packages

Key events from November 2008 to August 2012

Asian banks spread across the continent

Some banks have been on the continent for decades but the rise in trade levels over the last decade has driven more competition to Africa

AAC's got it mapped

Bonding over bourses

Stock exchanges in Shanghai and Johannesburg embarked on a new cooperative project in August that will encourage more equity investments

Following the Johannesburg Stock Exchange-Shanghai Stock Exchange memorandum of understanding in September 2012, the inaugural South Africa-China Capital Market Forum was held at the JSE in August. Representatives...

Security climbs the agenda

Tokyo plans to increase its security presence in Africa next year and Prime Minister Abe discussed piracy and terrorism when in Djibouti in August

In response to the January 2013 attack on the In Amenas gas plant in Algeria, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plans to spend a chunk of Tokyo’s 2014 defence...

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