Africa

Middle East & Africa

Africa’s cynical master of power politics

Can Paul Kagame, Rwanda’s dictator, secure his legacy at home and abroad?

Leaders

Africa’s most admired dictator rolls the dice

Kagame’s intervention in Congo threatens his legacy at home

1843 | The curse of Kenya’s long-distance runners

Kelvin Kiptum had the world at his feet. Then it all ended in an instant

Asia

Myanmar’s scam empire gets worse, not better

Fewer Chinese are forced to come, but more workers are coming by choice

Middle East & Africa

Afrobeats’ new groove

Africa’s growing diaspora is transforming the continent’s musical exports

Middle East & Africa

Africans are building Putin’s suicide drones

Russia is luring young African women to make weapons to attack Ukraine

Middle East & Africa

What a massacre reveals about Abiy Ahmed’s Ethiopia

The killing of civilians is part of a disturbing pattern

Middle East & Africa

Cyril Ramaphosa keeps his cool with Donald Trump

The episode underlined Donald Trump’s warped views of South Africa

Middle East & Africa

Meet Africa’s ascendant right

They are devout, well-connected and have a MAGA wind in their sail

Middle East & Africa

A bitter race to elect the head of Africa’s pivotal bank

America has lost interest, but the rest of the world should not

Middle East & Africa

Africa’s oldest surviving Catholic church is under threat

A centuries-old chapel is a testament to Christianity’s deep roots in Africa

Middle East & Africa

The chimera of private finance for development

A fashionable idea has yet to fulfil its promises