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  • Saturday, 11 January, 2025
    FT Magazine
    My year as a conscript in the Egyptian army

    Smartphone photographs capture life as a soldier and the loneliness of night shifts

    A close-up image of a person’s hands resting on an assault rifle
  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    Mozambique
    Exiled Mozambique leader returns after months of violence in bid for power

    Venâncio Mondlane holds ‘inauguration’ at airport amid fears that deadly stand-off with ruling party could destabilise region

    Mozambique’s main opposition leader Venâncio Mondlane, centre, wearing a garland of flowers and surrounded by people upon his arrival at Maputo International Airport in Mozambique on January 9 2025
  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    Chad
    Attack on Chad presidential palace kills 19 after China minister visits

    Battle with security forces comes after central African country ordered departure of French troops

    This video grab taken from the Facebook account of Abderaman Koulamallah
  • Wednesday, 8 January, 2025
    UK politics
    UK offers to frontload payments in Chagos Islands talks

    Officials are racing to conclude deal before Donald Trump takes office later this month

    Diego Garcia, Chagos
  • Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
    US foreign policy
    US accuses Sudan paramilitary force of genocide

    Biden administration places sanctions on leader of Rapid Support Forces

    Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo
  • Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
    Seplat Energy Plc
    Nigeria’s Seplat moves in to fill gap as foreign oil companies retreat

    Buyer of ExxonMobil’s assets in the west African country wants to double production within six months

    Two workers in blue overalls and white helmets are operating machinery at an industrial site.
  • Friday, 3 January, 2025
    News in-depthSouth Africa
    Johannesburg’s shuttered main library becomes symbol of city in decay

    One of the greatest repositories of Africana is yet to reopen four years after it was closed for restoration

    Johannesburg City Library
  • Thursday, 2 January, 2025
    FT MagazineSimon Kuper
    Why goats are replacing cows in southern Africa

    A drought-hit province provides glimpses of the planet’s next phase 

    An hourglass against a blue background, with the top half containing a miniature savannah scene featuring elephants and trees, while sand flows into the bottom half
  • Thursday, 2 January, 2025
    News in-depthEthiopia
    Ethiopia opens first stock market since Emperor Haile Selassie

    Prime minister pursues liberal reforms to revive ‘broke’ east African country after two-year civil war and default

    People walk towards the entrance of the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa
  • Wednesday, 1 January, 2025
    Ivory Coast
    Ivory Coast announces withdrawal of French troops

    Reduction of military presence is latest sign of weakening western influence in region

    French troops parade in Abidjan
  • Tuesday, 31 December, 2024
    National Archives
    UK government lobbied Libya for arms deal with BAE Systems

    Links between Gaddafi and Blair in 2004 revealed by newly released letter

    Tony Blair meets Muammer Gaddafi in March 2004
  • Monday, 30 December, 2024
    News in-depthSouth African economy
    Johannesburg bears brunt of South Africa’s water crisis

    Cost of supply cuts threatens to dwarf economic damage caused by country’s years of power blackouts

    Filling bottles from water storage tanks
  • Sunday, 29 December, 2024
    Mozambique
    Mozambique crisis escalates as government accused of brutal crackdown

    Human rights activists say at least 130 people killed after ruling party’s Daniel Chapo confirmed winner of election

    A burning barricade in the street of Maputo, Mozambique’s capital, on Saturday
  • Sunday, 29 December, 2024
    LexInsurance
    Why the troubled carbon offset market is taking cover Premium content

    Projects that pass muster with insurers will get added credibility and reduced risk

    A satellite image of a fire line at Piuma Road in Malibu, California, US
  • Thursday, 26 December, 2024
    News in-depthSouth Africa
    The South African gold mines taken over by criminal gangs

    Authorities have resorted to siege tactics to ‘smoke out’ thousands of miners trapped underground

    Mineshaft in Stilfontein where thousands of miners are believed to be trapped
  • Monday, 23 December, 2024
    Mozambique
    Mozambique’s disputed election verdict reignites protests

    Constitutional Council says Frelimo’s Daniel Chapo was victor in October poll despite widespread claims of vote-rigging

    A military armoured vehicle blocks the road as protesters try to make their way to the Ressano Garcia border post between Mozambique and South Africa
  • Saturday, 21 December, 2024
    Nigeria
    Nigeria tax spat opens country’s smouldering north-south divide

    Critics warn President Bola Tinubu’s proposed changes to VAT distribution will help wealthier southern states

    People walk past the Nigerian National Assembly
  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
    Oil & Gas industry
    Shell tied new Nigeria offshore investments to approval for oil asset sale

    Approval for exit from operation at centre of decades of criticism over environmental impact marked sharp turnaround

    Bonga offshore production facility
  • Thursday, 19 December, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Sudan’s unfolding humanitarian crisis

    Outside powers hold the key to ending the deadly forgotten conflict

    Young Sudanese refugee girl carrying food on her head in Adre transit camp in the Wadai region of Chad
  • Wednesday, 18 December, 2024
    OutlookAanu Adeoye
    Unfree movement — why can’t Africans travel around Africa?

    Citizens with local passports have more difficulty moving across the continent than European and American visitors

    Aerial view of Brazzaville with the Congo River and Kinshasa, Capital of Democratic Republic of the Congo in the background.
  • Wednesday, 18 December, 2024
    UK foreign policy
    Starmer deal over Chagos Islands in turmoil after Mauritius reopens talks

    UK officials say London will refuse to hand over more money as issue flares into major dispute

    The atoll of Diego Garcia
  • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
    EU immigration
    EU nears migration deals with Jordan and Morocco

    Brussels pursues more economic partnerships in return for tougher border control after pacts with Egypt and Tunisia stall

    Jordan’s King Abdullah receiving European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen in Amman
  • Monday, 16 December, 2024
    Natural disasters
    Many feared dead as cyclone hits French territory of Mayotte

    Ferocious winds from storm Chido strike island after ‘incredibly high’ temperatures in Indian Ocean

    Rescue workers attempt to clear a blocked road, in the aftermath of Cyclone Chido, in Mayotte, France
  • Monday, 16 December, 2024
    Barrick Gold Corp
    Barrick Gold threatens to suspend Mali operations in stand-off with government

    Dispute over revenues has led to detention of 4 employees and issue of arrest warrant for chief executive

    A mine worker holds an ingot of gold at the production plant for the Loulo-Gounkoto gold mine
  • Sunday, 15 December, 2024
    HTSI
    Restitution, wrangling and renewal in Benin

    How the return of priceless looted treasures sparked a creative renaissance

    Chief of the Yedmadjé collective in front of the ancestors’ shrine in Abomey
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