The continent is better positioned to weather crises, yet perceptions remain stuck in the past
Conflict has crushed Gulf markets and pushed up air freight and shipping costs
Long a byword for failure through years of power shortages, the state utility is now grappling with how to raise demand
Crude output has risen to highest level since 2013 as demand soars to replace lost barrels from the Gulf
Bamako targeted as rebels celebrate retreat of Russian paramilitaries from Kidal in the north
Rainforest nations face intense pressure to sell credits to airlines and wealthier countries
The creative tours his hometown’s markets, coffee shops and rooftops
Also in this newsletter: European Commission trade chief turned down new department role for teaching post
Losses to Malian militants by Wagner Group’s successor call into question future of Moscow’s military adventurism in Africa
Africa’s demographics are favourable, but leaders must prepare for future shocks
Security force aims to drive investment in African nation’s resource sector
Gabrielle Goliath’s ‘Elegy’, which pays tribute to a Palestinian poet killed by an Israeli strike, will be shown at the Chiesa di Sant’Antonin
The latest stop on the painter’s rise to art-world fame is the British pavilion at Venice, where personal history and her fizzing palette collide
Co-ordinated assaults forced Mali’s Moscow-backed regime to abandon key city
Maritime authorities and intelligence agencies say four vessels seized in past week
Military government battles to contain assaults launched by jihadist and secessionist militants
Professional service firms appear to be braced for flatlining growth
Human rights groups estimate toll far higher in what they describe as ‘Tiananmen Square moment’
Sending a white Afrikaner as ambassador to the US is a diplomatic masterstroke
Six days in the saddle take Finn Beales from the hubbub of the city into the wild valleys of the Atlas Mountains
Wale Edun leaves President Bola Tinubu’s cabinet less than a year before an election in one of Africa’s largest economies
The ICC and its member states must treat environmental destruction as seriously as other international crimes
Lai Ching-te’s visit to tiny landlocked Eswatini postponed after neighbours ‘revoked flight permits’
Youthful, energetic — and white. Can the mayor of Cape Town transform the fortunes of the Democratic Alliance?
Nobody benefits if third-sector organisations can’t keep their disputes away from the courts
