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    Andres Schipani

    East and central Africa bureau chief

    Andres Schipani is the east and central Africa bureau chief of the Financial Times based in Nairobi. He was previously Brazil correspondent and, before moving to São Paulo, he was the Andes and Caribbean correspondent based in Bogotá.

    He has also worked in the newspaper's New York bureau as a markets and emerging markets reporter. A native of Buenos Aires, he is a graduate of the universities of Oxford and Columbia.

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    • Friday, 8 September, 2023
      Moral Money
      Investing in the world’s poorest country Premium content

      Also in today’s newsletter, Singapore’s central bank head calls for action on carbon pricing and blended finance

      Evariste Ndayishimiye in a crowd of people wearing Burundi’s national colours of red, white and green
    • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
      Climate change
      African leaders back global carbon tax to pay for green energy in poorer nations

      Climate summit calls for six-fold increase in renewable energy across the continent

      Delegates on stage at the Africa Climate Summit
    • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
      Moral Money
      Inside the inaugural Africa Climate Summit Premium content

      Also in today’s newsletter, investment plans to wean Indonesia off coal fail to materialise

      Delegates of the Africa Climate Summit outside the venue in Nairobi
    • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
      Climate legislation
      New EU climate chief to explore controversial carbon capture strategy

      Bloc countries divided on upgrading climate change targets

      Wopke Hoekstra, the Dutch nominee to be EU climate commissioner
    • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
      Climate change
      Kenya’s president calls for African debt relief to fight climate change

      Appeal to reduce financial demands on indebted nations comes as Nairobi hosts first Africa Climate Summit

      Kenyan president William Ruto speaks at the first Africa Climate Summit in Nairobi on Monday
    • Friday, 1 September, 2023
      DR Congo
      UN ‘alarmed’ by deaths during protest against its DRC peacekeeping force

      Human rights groups accuse military of shooting civilians during unrest that left dozens of people dead

    • Monday, 28 August, 2023
      Ethiopia
      ‘God wants us away from our enemies’: bitter legacy of war splits Ethiopian church

      Breakaway bishops form separate Tigray denomination in schism that risks inflaming tensions in wake of brutal conflict

      Ethiopian worshippers celebrate the Orthodox Easter at a church in the city of Lalibela
    • Sunday, 27 August, 2023
      News in-depthSafaricom Ltd
      Safaricom’s mobile money rollout in Ethiopia marks moment for ‘last frontier’

      Privatisation wave makes country of 120mn people a tempting target for digital services

      A Safaricom advert in Nairobi
    • Friday, 25 August, 2023
      Africa
      Wagner’s lucrative African operations thrown into post-Prigozhin limbo

      Founder’s demise casts fresh doubt over Russia’s ability to maintain mercenary deployments on the continent

    • Sunday, 20 August, 2023
      InterviewEthiopia
      Ethiopia seeks help to find $20bn for post-conflict reconstruction

      Finance minister Ahmed Shide calls on international institutions and foreign investors to aid recovery from civil war

      A farming family in Tigray, Ethiopia
    • Wednesday, 16 August, 2023
      Sudan
      More than 4mn Sudanese displaced by ‘senseless’ war, says UN

      6mn people ‘one step away’ from famine in 4-month conflict between warring generals, says refugee agency

      A Sudanese woman, who fled the conflict, in Chad
    • Thursday, 10 August, 2023
      Private equity
      CVC explores sale of troubled Kenyan tea plantation

      Kericho site in Kenya had a history of violence and sexual abuse allegations before Unilever sold it to private equity last year

      Farm workers emerge from a plantation in Kenya’s Kericho highlands
    • Wednesday, 9 August, 2023
      Uganda
      World Bank freezes new lending to Uganda over LGBT+ crackdown

      Move by Washington-based lender could spur other institutions and western nations to follow suit, say analysts

      A person draped in a flag with hands clasped in prayer
    • Wednesday, 9 August, 2023
      Tanzania
      Tanzania accused of silencing critics over port deal with Dubai

      Lawyers say intergovernmental deal over Dar es Salaam port is too generous to Emirati interests

      Dar es Salaam, shot from above
    • Monday, 7 August, 2023
      African politics
      Central African Republic leader wins vote to rule for third term

      Touadéra’s constitutional move cements role of mercenary Wagner group in the state

    • Friday, 4 August, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Saudi-hosted conference seeks to build support for Ukrainian peace plan

      Kyiv steps up efforts to engage key developing countries in isolating Moscow

      a residential building hit by a Russian missile in Dnipro, Ukraine
    • Thursday, 27 July, 2023
      Yevgeny Prigozhin
      Wagner boss Prigozhin appears on sidelines of Russia-Africa summit

      Paramilitary group’s founder has continually been seen at events in Russia despite supposedly agreeing exile in Belarus

      Yevgeny Prigozhin shaking hands with Freddy Mapouka
    • Wednesday, 26 July, 2023
      Europe Express
      Putin’s war spiel fails to drum up interest from Africa’s leaders Premium content

      Also in today’s newsletter: Macron offers the Pacific an alternative to US vs China

      Vladimir Putin talks to Cyril Ramaphosa
    • Wednesday, 26 July, 2023
      Russian politics
      Russia hits out at west for pressing African leaders to miss St Petersburg summit

      Limited representation from continent is blow to Vladimir Putin

      Flags for the Russia-Africa summit in front of Saint Isaac’s Cathedral in Saint Petersburg, Russia
    • Monday, 24 July, 2023
      Africa
      Ukraine war casts a shadow over Putin’s summit with African leaders

      Moscow’s exit from UN-led deal that exports grain to the continent labelled a ‘stab in the back’

      Vladimir Putin, centre, poses for a photo with leaders of African countries at the Russia-Africa summit in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia in October 2019
    • Friday, 21 July, 2023
      Food security
      Russia pushes plan to supply grain to Africa and cut out Ukraine

      Kremlin proposal would involve both Qatar and Turkey but neither has agreed to the idea

      A market in Yemen
    • Wednesday, 19 July, 2023
      Kenya
      Several injured in Kenya as protesters clash with security forces

      Opposition leader Odinga rallies supporters to protest against tax rises pushed through by President Ruto

    • Monday, 17 July, 2023
      News in-depthSahel
      Sudan’s descent into violence poses new threat to volatile Sahel region

      Spillover from conflict risks creation of a corridor of instability stretching from the Red Sea to the Atlantic

      Black smoke rises against the blue sky, with low-level buildings in the foreground
    • Thursday, 13 July, 2023
      Wagner Group
      Wagner faces challenge in African stronghold

      Divisive vote in Central African Republic is first serious test for the mercenary group since Yevgeny Prigozhin’s mutiny

      A man holds a placard reading ‘Centrafricains with Russia’ in Bangui during a pro-Russia demonstration
    • Wednesday, 12 July, 2023
      News in-depthKenya
      ‘We must tighten our belts’: Kenya searches for cash to meet debt bills

      Nairobi insists ‘default is not an option’ as it rushes to avoid fate of African peers such as Zambia and Ghana

      Opposition-led protests on Friday urge Kenyans to boycott paying tax
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