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Africa

  • Sunday, 1 June, 2025
    UK foreign policy
    UK backs Morocco’s ‘autonomy plan’ for Western Sahara

    David Lammy’s comments amount to effective British recognition of Rabat’s sovereignty over disputed territory

    A Moroccan flag flies over an army post in Western Sahara near the Mauritanian border
  • Saturday, 31 May, 2025
    South Africa
    South Africa faces backlash over plan to change law for Musk’s Starlink

    Opposition accuses Pretoria of ‘backroom deal’ over proposal to water down rules on Black ownership

  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Nigeria
    Nigeria cracks down on ‘spraying’ money at parties to defend currency

    Authorities are jailing people for throwing cash at parties after 70% fall in naira’s value over two years

    A man ‘sprays’ currency notes to honour the Ijaw’s biggest masquerade Amaseikumor
  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    The Big Read
    Is South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa running out of time?

    He may have survived a bruising encounter with Donald Trump, but the veteran ANC politician is facing forbidding challenges at home and abroad

    Montage image of Ramaphosa, ANC and EFF activists
  • Tuesday, 27 May, 2025
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Nigeria’s shock therapy

    Citizens have yet to feel the benefit of economic reform, but Bola Tinubu should press on

    Nigerian President Bola Tinubu
  • Tuesday, 27 May, 2025
    Can Yeğinsu
    The true cost of arbitrary detention

    Locking up dissidents isn’t just a violation of human rights. It can also be an economic liability

    Mona Seif, sister of Alaa Abd El-Fattah, leads a candlelight vigil outside Downing Street
  • Sunday, 25 May, 2025
    DR Congo
    DR Congo eyes US minerals deal tied to peace in rebel-hit east by end of June

    Another round of negotiations in Washington expected next week

  • Saturday, 24 May, 2025
    Travel
    My weekend at Zambia’s wild, waterborne carnival

    When floods spill across the western plains, the stage is set for the remarkable celebration of Kuomboka — and tourists are being invited to join the party

    A long barge topped by a life-size effigy of an elephant is paddled by dozens of men wearing red berets and cheetah skins, and cheered on by a crowd of well-wishers
  • Saturday, 24 May, 2025
    News in-depthSouth African politics
    Trump and the tortured history of South Africa’s land

    Land ownership remains country’s toughest policy problem as it grapples with the legacy of apartheid

    An aerial view of the poor black squatter camp Kya Sands, home to South Africans and many African immigrants on July 19, 2018 in Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Friday, 23 May, 2025
    South Africa
    South Africa moves to change empowerment law for Musk’s Starlink

    Potential loosening of Black ownership rules came after billionaire said his satellite internet group would not comply

    The logo of the Starlink satellite-internet communication system
  • Friday, 23 May, 2025
    Financial services
    FCA bans third ex-Credit Suisse banker over ‘tuna bonds’ scandal

    Detelina Subeva’s decision to keep $200,000 in tainted funds revealed lack of ‘ethical compass’, says regulator

    Detelina Subeva leaving Westminster Magistrates Court in London, England in March 2019
  • Thursday, 22 May, 2025
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    South Africa’s mugging at the White House

    Violence against Afrikaner farmers needs to stop, but it is not a genocide

    South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa and US President Donald Trump
  • Thursday, 22 May, 2025
    British Indian Ocean Territory
    UK to pay £101mn a year under deal to hand over Chagos Islands to Mauritius

    British government says accord will guarantee future of joint military base with US

  • Thursday, 22 May, 2025
    News in-depthBurkina Faso
    ‘The cult of Saint Traoré’: how a Russia-backed junta leader became an icon

    Anger over democratic dysfunction and western meddling has fuelled global support for Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré

    Background, supporters of Burkina Faso’s strongman Captain Ibrahim Traore hold placards during a rally in support of Traore at Place de la Nation Ouagadougou on April 30, 2025; foreground, Traore
  • Thursday, 22 May, 2025
    OutlookDavid Pilling
    Cape Town fights off a baboon invasion

    Aggressive tactics used to scare off the animals have set humans against simians and neighbour against neighbour

    Baboon looking through the windshield Western Cape near Cape Town
  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
    US politics & policy
    US judge says Trump administration violated court order on deportations

    A second US judge accuses the government of flouting court orders related to removal flights

    DHS assistant secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin, flanked by acting director of US immigration and customs enforcement Todd Lyons, during a news conference in Washington. Images of some of the migrant detainees are in the background
  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
    British Indian Ocean Territory
    UK set to sign Chagos Islands deal with Mauritius

    Britain to agree multibillion pound payment to retain access to Diego Garcia military base also used by US

    Diego Garcia, the largest island in the Chagos Archipelago and site of a major US-UK military base in the middle of the Indian Ocean
  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
    South African politics
    Trump attacks South Africa’s Ramaphosa over alleged targeting of white farmers

    US president brandishes printed media reports of what he claims are murdered farmers in Oval Office exchange

    US President Donald Trump (R) holds up news articles related to violence in South Africa during a meeting with South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
    Alec Russell
    Listen to Afrikaners, not Trump, on the state of South Africa

    The white minority does have justified anxieties but many are thriving and it is absurd to talk of a ‘genocide’

    President Donald Trump greets South African President Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
    The Big Read
    Total’s risky bet on a natural gas megaproject in southern Africa

    The French energy giant was forced to pause a huge LNG scheme in Mozambique after Islamist militants launched a deadly attack. Is the region safe enough for it to restart?

    A satellite view of Total’s Mozambique LNG project on the Afungi peninsula
  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
    South African politics
    South Africa turns to golf diplomacy to woo Trump

    Ernie Els set to join Cyril Ramaphosa for White House meeting after breakdown in relations between Pretoria and Washington

    Ramaphosa; Trump and Els in 2017
  • Sunday, 18 May, 2025
    FT SeriesHTSI’s top stories – from a hot new dining destination in Paris to a pilgrimage to Patagonia
    Five spectacular hotel revamps

    Stunning renovations that guarantee the greatest escapes  

    The Minerva bar at Orient Express La Minerva in Rome
  • Sunday, 18 May, 2025
    News in-depthSudan
    Military briefing: the foreign drones that turned Sudan’s civil war

    Influx of weapons believed to have come from China, Turkey and the UAE has escalated the ruinous conflict

    General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, a Serbian Chinese made CH-95 drone; satellite image shows smoke rising from burning oil tanks in Port Sudan, Sudan May 6, 2025
  • Saturday, 17 May, 2025
    Energy sector
    French nuclear company Orano explores sale of Niger uranium assets

    Process to sell subsidiaries follows breakdown of ties with west African country’s military government

    Staff working in Orano’s nuclear waste reprocessing plant in La Hague, France
  • Wednesday, 14 May, 2025
    Special ReportAfrica’s Fastest-Growing Companies
    The ranking: Africa's Fastest-Growing Companies 2025

    South Africa and Nigeria dominate the list of 130 businesses hinting at the difficulties entrepreneurs from smaller countries face in building a continental presence

    Aerial view of Cape Town, South Africa, with Table Mountain in the background and the city’s stadium and harbor in the foreground
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  1. UK backs Morocco’s ‘autonomy plan’ for Western Sahara
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  3. Nigeria cracks down on ‘spraying’ money at parties to defend currency
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