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Whitehall’s soft power shrinks as the BBC cuts back again

The broadcaster’s African services face more cuts, even to its flagship Nairobi bureau, as managers hunt for savings and reshape digital teams

What is being presented in London as an efficiency drive looks like a strategic retreat in Nairobi, Lagos and Johannesburg. Under government pressure, the BBC is trimming capacity...

Win-win or spin-spin

The soft launch for Neofingo, a ‘Ghana-Britain digital trade finance corridor’, by a public and non-profit consortium on 28 March championed a new way to cut through the...

Britain plays the King

Abuja is spinning President Tinubu’s stay in the Palace – and warmer ties with the British government – as part of a reset of bilateral relations

On the back foot since President Bola Ahmed Tinubu made France the centrepiece of his foreign policy, Britain is trying to restore its waning relationship with Nigeria. To...

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Ghosts of Mugabe are haunting Whitehall

As US regime change tactics spark debate, British plans in Zimbabwe come under scrutiny

At the height of Prime Minister Tony Blair’s ‘War on Terror’ in 2004, British officials mulled whether a military operation could depose the ‘depressingly fit’ Zimbabwean President Robert...

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