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Mark Suzman is the CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He sits astride one of the biggest charitable endeavours on the planet, a $...
The European Union has an ambitious trillion dollar plan to slash emissions by over 50% from 1990 levels by 2030. This can present opportuni...
What next for Al Shabaab, the insurgent group that attacked Palma in the northern Mozambique province of Cabo Delgado in March? Is South Afr...
On 12 August, Zambians go to the polls to vote in their next president. Zambia’s ruling party, the Patriotic Front, confirmed Edgar Lungu in...
Today Nigeria’s political system is more fiercely contested than ever with some militants trying to break up the federation – to what extent...
Former cabinet minister, co-ordinator of the #BringBankOurGirls campaign, VP at the World Bank... the multi-talented Obiageli Ezekwesili dis...
When veteran correspondent Michela Wrong started researching her book, ‘Do Not Disturb – the story of a political murder and an African regi...
A report published by US-based the World Peace Foundation stresses the looming famine disaster in Ethiopia's Tigray if the fighting does not...
A recent report released by the Nigeria-based Global Rights organisation, entitled 'Mass Atrocities 2020 Tracking' states 4,556 people were...
In this week’s episode we’ll be visiting a dark moment in the history of Niger. It's a moment that few talk about. yet alone know about. Kno...
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), which came into effect at the beginning of the year, has been heralded as a major step in...
Biden has also rescinded the Visa Ban that has caused so much suffering for African students and their families. But on the big picture ques...
January 25 2020 marks the ten year anniversary of Egypt’s revolution in 2011. It put in motion an end to the 29-year rule of Hosni Mubarak....
Nigeria's turbulent and hamstrung history has plenty to tell us about the current malaise. And, as says writer Maya Angelou, "If you don't k...
A surge of attacks linked to Zimbabwe's growing artisanal mining sector, has killed hundreds of miners. In this week's Talking Africa podcas...
In this takeover episode, Ohenaba Ama Nti Osei speaks to leading Nigerian banker and CEO, Toyin Sanni. From her early days in the industry,...
What is next after Côte d'Ivoire's elections? President Ouattara was comfortably re-elected; but with the opposition claiming constitutional...
Forces unleashed against Nigeria's #EndSARS protestors suggest panicking politicians trying to manage a modern movement with the toolkit of...
As head of the Rockefeller Foundation in Africa, William Asiko is on a mission. He believes that agriculture can play a transformational rol...
With just a few days to go before the World Trade Organisation narrow the field of candidates from five to just two, here is a conversation...
Dr Nkengasong of the Africa Centres for Disease Control has become an authority over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic. While he is 'proud...
In our first episode in this new season of Talking Africa, we delve right into a juicy discussion about humanity's obsession with greed, loo...
Will political change and the pandemic force a reset of US diplomatic and security priorities – and where will Africa figure in the new orde...
Women in power get things done says Melinda Gates; you just have to look at who has come out on top in managing the coronavirus. Moved to ac...
Tundu Lissu, a prominent member of Tanzania's opposition, was driving home in 2017 when gunmen sprayed his car with over 30 bullets. He bare...
The number of COVID-19 infections across Africa surpassed half a million on 8 July said the World Health Organization, as it flagged growing...
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, or GERD, is due to start filling the dam in the coming weeks. Egypt has tried in vain to put the breaks...
Today, many compare the political confrontation and economic meltdown in Zimbabwe with the position of the country a decade ago. Blighted by...
For the 14 heads of state that Tony Blair advises across the continent, the coronavirus pandemic has sharpened the need to overhaul governme...
The death of George Floyd at the hands of police officers, has once again reignited the on-going fight across the United States for equality...
Tensions spike between Ethiopia and Egypt, as the commencement of the filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance dam approaches. We speak to...
Fred Swaniker, the Ghanaian co-creator and Chairman of the African Leadership Group is well known for not just complaining about the lack of...
As the coronavirus lockdown eases in South Africa and Nigeria, how are governments and companies coping? We talk to our correspondents on th...
Bill Gates has been pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into the fight against COVID-19. He wants an army of innovators to hit the probl...
The global pandemic of coronavirus may be waning in Asia and Europe, but it's hasn't quite peaked across Africa, and in particular North Afr...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has sounded a dire warning for the continent: “The region’s economy is set to shrink by 1.6% in 2020,...
Francophone Africa is set to cut its colonial ties through the introduction of a new regional currency, the Eco. That would put to rest the...
There are cataclysmic warnings about the impact of coronavirus on Africa's economy. But Citibank's chief economist for Africa David Cowan th...
Thomas Piketty believes that times of crisis can reveal the fragility of dominant ideologies. The shock delivered by coronavirus is no excep...
As Lagos, Nairobi and Johannesburg fall silent, how do informal workers survive? How are governments coping? What are the geopolitics of the...
When Ebola hit Liberia in 2014, Gyude Moore was working as deputy chief of staff for President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf. He had a frontrow seat...
In conjunction with Invest Africa, we map out the political and economic impact of coronavirus on the continent. From spiking bond premiums,...
Are African politicians taking the triple whammy of coronavirus, locusts and debt levels seriously? Not seriously enough, argues Aly-Khan Sa...
Tito Mboweni has given the crime-fighters and tax collectors more money. Is it enough to turn around South Africa's economy?
For author, businessman and analyst Moeletsi Mbeki, South Africa's ruling party is part of the problem, not part of the solution. He is crit...
We speak to Trump's top Africa diplomat about the new US drive to engage economically with Africa, great power competition from China and ot...
Ethiopia is asking itself some tough political questions at the moment. We speak to writer Maaza Mengiste, whose powerful historical fiction...
The UK-Africa Investment Summit is gathering political and business to London to debate the continent's relationship with Britain, on 20th J...
Ethiopia is heading into a tricky political moment. Prime Minister Abiy has to navigate elections in 2020, the push for self determination b...
Is China exporting its authoritarian politics via its export of communication technologies? While the world debates 5G technologies, and the...