Africa

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Global Economy

Algeria, Nigeria, Niger discuss gas pipeline to Europe

How to beat developing-market debt crises
Thoughts

How to beat developing-market debt crises

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attends a joint news conference with Venezuelan Foreign Minister Carlos Faria in Moscow, Russia July 4, 2022. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina/Pool/Files
World+Biz

Russia's Lavrov to visit Africa as Moscow seeks non-Western ties

A girl walks on a gas pipeline running through Okrika community near Nigeria's oil hub city of Port Harcourt December 4, 2012. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye
Global Economy

Ukraine war rekindles Europe's demand for African oil and gas

Eswatini urges Bangladesh to strengthen business ties
Economy

Eswatini urges Bangladesh to strengthen business ties

A health worker in protective clothing carries waste for disposal outside the isolation ward where victims of the deadly Marburg virus are treated in the northern Angolan town of Uige, File.
Africa

Ghana confirms its first outbreak of highly infectious Marburg virus

The World Health Organization logo is pictured at the entrance of the WHO building, in Geneva, Switzerland, December 20, 2021. Photo :Reuters
Africa

Africa sees 63% rise in diseases spread from animals to humans in decade: WHO

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World+Biz

Monkeypox cases triple in Europe, WHO says, Africa concerned

Agricultural worker walks between rows of vegetables at a farm in Eikenhof, south of Johannesburg, South Africa. Photo: Reuters
Panorama

With vast arable lands, why is Africa dependent on imported grain?

A general view of houseboats on sides of River Nile as authorities begin to remove what they say are unlicensed units from the Nile in the Egypt's capital of Cairo, Egypt June 28, 2022. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
Africa

Owners distraught as historic Nile houseboats are removed

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World+Biz

Germany to return artefacts looted from Africa during colonial rule

An image created during an investigation into an outbreak of monkeypox, which took place in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1996 to 1997, shows the arms and torso of a patient with skin lesions due to monkeypox. Photo: Reuters
World+Biz

Monkeypox cases are on rise in Europe and US, here is why

Former residents evicted from a crowded Lagos shantytown stand on a flotilla of boats during a demonstration against their forced eviction on May 15, 2018. Nigeria’s booming population recently led it to overtake India to become the country with the largest number of absolutely poor citizens. STEFAN HEUNIS/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES/Foreign Policy
Analysis

It’s Africa’s century—for better or worse