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    • Tuesday, 21 March, 2023
      DR Congo
      DRC says Rwandan mineral smuggling costs it almost $1bn a year

      Kinshasa has long accused Kigali of plundering its resources by supporting insurgent M23 group

    • Monday, 20 March, 2023
      South Africa
      South African military deployed to prevent planned national shutdown

      Country’s radical opposition struggles to muster large numbers after calling for a day of protest

    • Sunday, 12 March, 2023
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      Morocco must adapt to growing climate threat, warns finance minister

      Nadia Fettah Alaoui says years of below-average rainfall underscore importance of investment in water technologies

    • Tuesday, 7 March, 2023
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      South Africa GDP shrinks 1.3% after power cuts strangle economy

      State of disaster declared as rolling blackouts cost $50mn a day, says central bank

    • Monday, 6 March, 2023
      South Africa
      Ramaphosa names new electricity minister in battle to beat power cuts

      Ramokgopa appointment comes after Eskom crisis causes outages of up to 12 hours a day

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      Rising frustration over pervasive corruption risks hurting South Africa’s ruling party at the polls

    • Friday, 24 February, 2023
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      Global watchdog says Africa’s two biggest economies need to do more to fight financial crime

    • Wednesday, 22 February, 2023
      Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd
      South Africa expands public borrowing to relieve Eskom debt

      Finance minister says Pretoria will provide state power group with $14bn as rolling blackouts worsen

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      The relative political newcomer has electrified young voters, rattled his rivals and made the outcome of this week’s contest much harder to predict

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    • Sunday, 19 February, 2023
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      Campaigners should pay attention to significant shifts that have occurred in global development financing

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      Russia’s growing trade in arms, oil and African politics

      Nations welcome the business and investment on the continent but for many diplomatic ties are the priority

    • Thursday, 9 February, 2023
      South African economy
      South Africa declares ‘national state of disaster’ over blackouts

      President says rolling power cuts ‘an existential threat to our economy and our social fabric’

    • Wednesday, 8 February, 2023
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      Nigeria’s top court halts botched plan to replace currency notes

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      FTSE 100 miner’s Duncan Wanblad warns country’s economy under threat from ‘scourges’ of power cuts, broken logistics and corruption

    • Friday, 3 February, 2023
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      Nigeria’s attempt to replace its currency notes descends into chaos

      Long queues form outside cash machines and fights break out as customers demand access to money

    • Wednesday, 1 February, 2023
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      ‘Lay down your arms’, pontiff tells warring sides in DR Congo

    • Sunday, 29 January, 2023
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      Boss of South African power producer Eskom survived poisoning attempt in December

      André de Ruyter, who resigned after trying to overhaul the troubled utility, claims he was given cyanide-laced coffee

    • Friday, 6 January, 2023
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      Italian group’s chief pushes for closer collaboration as EU seeks to replace Russian imports

    • Sunday, 1 January, 2023
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      Corrupt, failing Eskom is a picture of South Africa in miniature

      Without reliable power, the country cannot generate economic growth and overcome the festering legacies of apartheid

    • Monday, 19 December, 2022
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      South Africa needs to move beyond the ANC

      Ramaphosa’s re-election as party president buys him a bit more time at the helm but does little for the country

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      Highly indebted African nation is facing a ‘major economic and financial crisis’

    • Tuesday, 13 December, 2022
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      Ghana reaches preliminary $3bn deal with IMF

      Officials in Accra must agree conditions with other creditors before three-year loan is signed off

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