Kenya's President Ruto seized the Évian stage but the minerals deal may define the summit more than pledges on debt and the cost of the capital
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A unified budget and an electoral timetable show progress toward but the Libyan National Army chief's silence raises critical questions
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An Accra summit agrees a plan with debt relief and restitution of cultural heritage, but lacks financial commitments from ex-colonial powers
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A landmark debt buyback delivers lights and credibility but Zambia's grid ambitions will persist whoever wins in August
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A Republican bill to revamp US diplomacy in Africa exposes some contradictions at the heart of the administration’s approach to the continent
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The EU's new services trade deal with Mauritius, Seychelles, Madagascar and Comoros is modest in scale — but enormous in what it unlocks
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With US$6 billion of Chinese EV investment embedded in North Africa's most EU-friendly economy, Brussels faces an uncomfortable choice
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Thirteen dead and 12,500 households have been displaced after the president's contested term extension triggered the capital's worst political violence in years
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East African health ministers pledged solidarity at a virtual summit – but with $80m of last year's budget still unpaid, the money to counter the epidemic isn’t there yet
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Court action against two US-backed health schemes in Kenya is exposing the political limits of Washington’s new Africa strategy
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French officials, Total and ExxonMobil are scrambling to retain Rwanda’s security role in Afungi after EU ended payments
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The UN Economic Commission for Africa advises governments to draft carbon tariffs as part of a broader trade and industrial response
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Congress plans critical review of funding for Hassan’s government after killings and stolen election
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Dissolving the provincial leadership boosts Fikile Mbalula’s control, but it stores up electoral trouble in one of the ANC’s key provinces
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The UN’s warning about the lack of vaccines has turned a health emergency into a test of Africa’s stalled manufacturing plans
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Latest TIFA opinion poll puts support for Ruto at 24% ahead of next year’s elections making him vulnerable if the opposition alliance holds together
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Western governments will face pressure to impose new sanctions on Rwanda and the M23 militia group in the wake a report by Human Rights Watch
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The United States has decisively broken ties with the Juba regime
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