The Africa Report
Which are the best-performing countries in Africa?
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- Which are the best-performing countries in Africa?
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- 3:11
- Date posted
- 22 days ago
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- There have been some radical shifts in hierarchy, as deep-seated changes affect the performance of Africa’s top 20 countries, measured on criteria including governance, influence and innovation. Here are the first takeaways from our top five.
For more information, visit our website : 2026 ranking: Which are the 20 best-performing countries in Africa? https://www.theafricareport.com/420559/2026-ranking-which-are-the-20-best-performing-countries-in-africa/
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- Ethiopia votes June 1
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- 3:10
- Date posted
- 25 days ago
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- Tigray’s exclusion, insecurity in Amhara and Oromia, and questions over opposition participation and electoral credibility will shape Ethiopia’s 1 June vote.
#ethiopia #election
For more information, visit our website : 5 things to watch in Ethiopia’s election under the shadow of conflict https://www.theafricareport.com/420174/five-things-to-watch-in-ethiopias-election-under-the-shadow-of-conflict/
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- "Nigeria must industrialise without creating rent-seekers" - Finance Minister Taiwo Oyedele
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- 12:48
- Date posted
- 28 days ago
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- Nigeria has passed through the first shock of reform.
The harder test, says finance minister Taiwo Oyedele, is whether the country can now turn macroeconomic stabilisation into growth without returning to the subsidies, waivers and fiscal indiscipline that weakened the economy in the first place.
In an interview with The Africa Report, the finance minister defends time-limited protection for local industry, but warns that tariffs are “a tax on the people”.
#acf2026 #africaceoforum #ouracf2026
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- Abdoulaye Ndiaye, best young African economist
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- 3:52
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- More than 70 candidates. 14 countries. A jury of seven renowned African economists. And one winner: Senegal’s Abdoulaye Ndiaye is the inaugural recipient of the Africa NextGen Economist Prize!
This new award, created by Jeune Afrique and The Africa Report in partnership with the African Development Bank, shines a spotlight on a new generation of researchers and economists whose work is reshaping how Africa envisions its future.
At 37, he is an Assistant Professor at the NYU Stern School of Business and is affiliated with the Finance for Development Lab. His research focuses on the constraints limiting African states’ ability to mobilize domestic resources, at the crossroads of public finance, development economics, and political economy.
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- Bola Tinubu: I inherited a 'fake life' economy
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- 17:32
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- President Bola Tinubu has a phrase for the Nigeria he says he inherited: a “fake life”.
In an interview with The Africa Report, at the Africa CEO Forum in Kigali, the Nigerian president argues that tough decisions have stabilised the economy. Now he wants taxation, national champions and megaprojects to deliver the payoff.
For decades, Africa’s most populous country subsidised petrol it could not refine at scale, defended a currency regime that drained foreign exchange, borrowed to fund consumption and watched oil revenues leak through smuggling, arrears and opaque import systems. In Tinubu’s telling, the removal of the petrol subsidy and the liberalisation of the naira were not ideological gambits but acts of fiscal survival.
For more information, visit our website: Exclusive: Tinubu says Nigeria has left behind its ‘fake life’ economy https://www.theafricareport.com/419139/exclusive-tinubu-says-nigeria-has-left-behind-its-fake-life-e...
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- Africa CEO Forum 2026: African business is thinking big
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- 2:00:26
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Follow the opening ceremony of Africa CEO Forum
In Kigali, Rwanda, the watchword for the 2026 Africa CEO Forum sets the tone: ‘Scale or Fail’. For this latest edition of the summit coorganised by Jeune Afrique Media Group, in partnership with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), more than 2,500 CEOs, investors, financiers and political leaders from around 75 countries are expected to address a single question: in a harsher global landscape, how can African companies finally hit critical mass?
For more information : Africa CEO Forum 2026: In Kigali, African business is thinking big https://www.theafricareport.com/418658/live-africa-ceo-forum-2026-in-kigali-african-business-is-thinking-big/
#AfricaCEOForum
#ACF2026
#OURACF2026
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- Africa CEO Forum : Presidential Panel
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- 59:05
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Follow the presidential panel live
In Kigali, Rwanda, the watchword for the 2026 Africa CEO Forum sets the tone: ‘Scale or Fail’. For this latest edition of the summit coorganised by Jeune Afrique Media Group, in partnership with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), more than 2,500 CEOs, investors, financiers and political leaders from around 75 countries are expected to address a single question: in a harsher global landscape, how can African companies finally hit critical mass?
For more information : Africa CEO Forum 2026: In Kigali, African business is thinking big https://www.theafricareport.com/418658/live-africa-ceo-forum-2026-in-kigali-african-business-is-thinking-big/
#AfricaCEOForum
#ACF2026
#OURACF2026
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- Abdoulaye Ndiaye: Why Africa must develop its own economic theories
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- 4:45
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- In this interview, Senegalese researcher Abdoulaye Ndiaye, a finalist for the Africa NextGen Economist Prize, discusses the need for home-grown solutions to debt sustainability and the role of the state.
Senegal’s ‘hidden debt’ scandal is a prime research topic for Abdoulaye Ndiaye. ‘My work focuses particularly on debt sustainability issues. What are the paths and ways out of these crises?’ explains the 37-year-old Senegalese academic and assistant professor of economics at New York University’s Stern School of Business.
Alongside Togo’s Ablam Estel Apeti, he is one of the two finalists for the Africa NextGen Economist Prize, organised by Jeune Afrique and The Africa Report in partnership with the African Development Bank. The prize recognises African researchers under 40 who are shaping the continent’s economic thinking, developing innovative ideas and concepts, and, crucially, providing concrete solutions to today’s and tomorrow’s challe...
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- Kagame: We refuse to remove defensive measures from DRC
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- 27:03
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
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- Rwanda's President Paul Kamage says he will not remove his army from disputed territories when his counterpart Tshisekedi is not expected to do the same
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- James Mworia: The dealmaker who transformed Centum
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- 6:39
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Mworia has steered Centum Investment from a volatile, equity-dependent firm into a diversified $636m investment powerhouse through a disciplined strategy of private-equity exits and aggressive debt reduction.
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- Jobs, not jargon -- IFC Managing Director Makhtar Diop on the challenge for Africa
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- 8:00
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- The World Bank Group, long caricatured as a lumbering if powerful lender, is trying to turn itself into a pragmatic job-creation machine.
Under Ajay Banga, the institution has stitched employment into its strategy – not as a worthy add-on but as the point of the exercise.
Makhtar Diop, who runs the private-sector arm, IFC, sketches out the new arc: back things that create work where people live; crowd in private capital with guarantees and securitisations; use “small AI” and basic infrastructure to lift productivity; and channel African savings into African assets.
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- James Mwangi: 'People see conflict, but our experience of DRC is massive opportunity'
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- 10:35
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- The legendary Kenyan banker plots out his vision for growth in Africa; from DRC into Ethiopia and beyond.
CEO of Equity Group holdings - which owns Equity Bank - Mwangi sees a rich future in the continents population, mining and energy centres close to home.
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- [Talk] 500 Business Champions – Beyond the ranking
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- 41:11
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Each year, Jeune Afrique and The Africa Report publish the exclusive ranking of Africa's Top 500 Champions — a leaderboard built from a unique database on the African business ecosystem. Today, we invite you to take a deep dive into this ranking through a talk show that unpacks the key trends and shifts revealed in our 2025 edition.
After a difficult 2023/2024 fiscal year, Africa’s corporate champions are bouncing back, despite an environment still marked by instability — with currency devaluations, inflation, and trade wars continuing to weigh on growth and profitability.
– What is the current state of Africa’s top companies?
– What does the future hold, sector by sector?
– And how can they overcome the challenges ahead?
Drawing on data collected and analyzed by our in-house teams, Aurélie M’Bida, Economics Editor for Jeune Afrique, and Nicholas Norbrook, Editor-in-Chief of The Africa Report, moderate this in-depth di...
![[Talk] Africa’s Top 500 Champions: What Future for the Continent’s Leading Companies?](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/P7bQBQy7bq0/1.jpg)
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- [Talk] Africa’s Top 500 Champions: What Future for the Continent’s Leading Companies?
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- 38:07
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- How are Africa’s largest companies performing? What does the future hold for them, sector by sector? In this edition of the Jeune Afrique / The Africa Report Talk, guests Mayowa Kuyoro, Partner at McKinsey Africa, and Stan Mittelman, CEO of Vivo Energy, share their insights on the data from the Top 500 African Champions ranking.
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- Hitech Construction targets growth outside Nigeria
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- 10:15
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Dany Abboud, Managing Director at Hitech Construction in Nigeria talks about the company's growing contracts in West African markets, the Lagos-Calabar Highway, and how the growth of the Eko Atlantic City project has put their shoreline protection engineering on the map.
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- Ndiamé Diop (World Bank): “African governments must be more ambitious"
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- 14:44
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Ndiamé Diop, the World Bank’s Vice-President for Eastern and Southern Africa, is urging African governments to deepen private sector partnerships, invest in infrastructure and, above all, prioritise human capital.
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- The Western consensus may be over - but can Africa benefit?
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- 1:41:51
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- The Africa Report Debate brought together leading lights from Africa and around the world.
The challenge: thrash out how Africa can tilt the current geopolitical moment to its favour.
Featuring Carlos Lopes, Beverly Ochieng, Arancha González Laya and Bright Simons.
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- The Africa Report Debate - Is the End of the West an Opportunity for Africa?
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- 1:48:14
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- The division of the West into at least three blocs – an uber-nationalist and protectionist US, a struggling bloc of liberal-democratic states in Western Europe and a smaller bloc of far-right nationalist states seeking closer affiliation with Russia – means the end of any attempt at coherent Western policy on debt, development aid and security in Africa and Asia.
The net beneficiaries will be the rising middle powers – Brazil, India, Indonesia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, United Arab Emirates, and Turkey. For now the EU states plus Britain are trying to establish another centre of power – oscillating between Washington and Beijing – to push back Russia.
Will African countries benefit? Join The Africa Report Debate, in partnership with the Mo Ibrahim Foundation.
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- Diffusion en direct de The Africa Report
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- 9:21:49
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Paul Kagame et Cyril Ramaphosa reconciled over the DRC?
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- 9:11
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- The presidents of Rwanda and South Africa shared the stage at the Africa CEO Forum in Côte d'Ivoire. Although they were at loggerheads a few weeks ago, they both called for peace and an African solution to the crisis in eastern DRC.
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- Toward a Powerful Africa: What Kind of Economic, Political, and Trade Integration?
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- 1:59:01
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- At a time when global power dynamics are being profoundly reshaped—driven by the return of economic nationalism and the resurgence of trade wars—the need for a coordinated African response has never been more urgent. Yet the institutions and mechanisms envisioned over the past decades, from the African Union to regional economic communities, the African Development Bank, and the AfCFTA, have not fully delivered the power and growth drivers they were meant to provide. Perhaps more concerning, the private sector has yet to find the conditions it needs to flourish and become a leading economic force.
With: Bassirou Diomaye Faye, President of Senegal; Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda; Tiemoko Meyliet Koné, Vice President of Côte d'Ivoire
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- 500 Champions: Jeune Afrique Reveals Its Exclusive Ranking!
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- 1:19
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- For 25 years, we’ve been analyzing Africa’s economy by identifying the continent’s 500 largest companies. From private firms to public enterprises, every sector is under the spotlight—agribusiness, energy, construction, industry, telecom, chemicals, retail, mining, healthcare, tourism, transport & logistics…
Who are this year’s top performers? Which new CEOs and surprise entrants will shake up the top 100?
Stay tuned for our exclusive ranking!
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- Rwanda's Paul Kagame
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- 2:03
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Rwanda's Paul #Kagame says he will 'spit in the face' of those threatening sanctions for #Rwanda's support of the M23 rebels in the #DRC.
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- Christopher Chijiutomi, Head of Africa, BII
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- 7:58
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- What financial mechanisms can help connect 300 million Africans to power grids by 2030? Chris Chijiutomi, Head of Africa at British International Investment (BII), shares his insights in this video.
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- World Bank's Anna Bjerde - If Africa wants an industrial revolution to provide jobs, it needs power
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- 6:15
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- The vast shortfall between jobs available and jobs provided will only grow if Africa does not hook up its population to the grid, argues World Bank MD Anna Bjerde.
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- The Shakahola Massacre: An exclusive documentary
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- 26:36
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Prosecutors say he drove more than 400 people, including children, to their deaths in Kenya’s Shakahola forest.
Our exclusive documentary retraces his path and sets out the charges facing Paul Mackenzie, one of the worst criminal cult leaders of the century.
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- Ecobank's Jeremy Awori on seizing the opportunities in turbulent times
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- 32:11
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Jeremy Awori, the CEO of leading African financial institution Ecobank, talks to The Africa Report about the arrival of Trump, the continental free trade zone, and how to harness AI.
Speaking ahead of the Africa Financial Summit, Awori emphasized Ecobank's resilience, underscored by a $74m net profit for Q3 2024 and a landmark $400m Eurobond issuance in November.
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- French historian Armelle Mabon: Thiaroye massacre in Senegal represents 80 years of government lies
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- 9:19
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- French historian Armelle Mabon has been actively working to reestablish the truth about this “crime of state” committed by colonial France. She is the author of Author of Le massacre de Thiaroye, 1er décembre 1944, Histoire d’un mensonge d’État (‘Thiaroye Massacre, the History of a State Lie’).
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- Drone wars in the Sahel: The high risk strategy of Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger
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- 7:19
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Drone strikes carried out by Mali in Tinzawaten have served as a reminder: these aircraft are now part of the Sahelian armies' arsenal against jihadists. However, this approach can prove to be a double-edged sword.
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- Can Africa take advantage of Chinese opportunity?
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- 4:38
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- More than 50 African leaders are in Beijing with President Xi Jinping. We take a look at the main issues at stake at this 9th China-Africa summit.
To find out more, read all our analysis, interviews and infographics in our special feature on The Africa Report.com
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- The Thiaroye Massacre: France, Senegal and the Battle for Narrative
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- 5:03
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Nearly 80 years after the French troops’ killing of hundreds of Senegalese soldiers, the wound between France and Senegal, and more broadly between Paris and its former colonies, remains far from healed.
“It is not up to [France] to unilaterally decide the number of Africans who were betrayed and murdered after helping to save it, nor the type and extent of the recognition and reparations they deserve,” said Senegal's Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko
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- Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi
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- 5:30
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- In this exclusive interview, President Masisi of Botswana tells The Africa Report about why he is wants to build a domestic vaccine production industry, what Botswana will do when the diamonds run out, and why he is revising his offer to send 25,000 elephants to Germany up to 30,000 elephants.
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- Aliko Dangote says he will continue to import US oil: "We can't wait"
- Runtime
- 11:26
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Nigeria's leading industrialist says domestic oil shortfalls mean he has no choice but to continue importing US crude.
He also tackles the naira slide, the building of a genuine pan-African free trade zone, and the possibility of listing his new refinery in this in-depth interview with The Africa Report
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- Kenya President William Ruto: 'The people in Haiti are Africans like us'
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- 11:46
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- In this exclusive interview with The Africa Report on the eve of his trip to the US, Kenya's president William Ruto talks about the deployment of Kenyan troops to Haiti, how the M23 are a Congolese problem not a Rwandan problem, and how he has tried to push Kenya into a post-tribal society.
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- Rwanda's President Paul Kagame
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- 12:35
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- In a wide-ranging interview in Kigali, President Paul Kagame discusses M23, accusations of human rights violations, finding a successor, AU reform, and the UK migrant deal.
For the whole interview, please visit our website, www.theafricareport.com
https://www.theafricareport.com/341695/kagame-drc-thought-the-east-african-force-was-there-to-fight-its-wars/
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- VidéoTAR classement500 nouveauxmilliardaires ENG VF
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- 6:01
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- 14 African companies have joined the billion-dollar revenue club.
We profile three of them... and show where you can find the rest on the continent
Part of our series on the 500 Business Champions; an exclusive ranking of Africa's top firms, only on The Africa Report.
https://www.theafricareport.com/340727/500-business-champions-2024-dangote-sasol-ocp-our-complete-exclusive-ranking/
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- Unleashing the Power of Small Business
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- 1:30:23
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- How can Nigeria release the huge potential of its small companies?
“In any developed economy, small businesses are the engine of growth. If you look at countries in Europe, you’ll find that they are the biggest employers of labour,” says Uzoma Dozie, CEO of Sparkle.
Join Dozie, along with Omoboyede Olusanya, CEO of Flour Mills of Nigeria; Charles Odii, CEO of SMEDAN; Zelda Akindele, partner at Templars Law; Esiri Agbeyi, partner at PwC; Chibuzo Opara at DrugStoc; and Nicholas Norbrook, managing editor of The Africa Report, for this in depth webinar.
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- Herbert Wigwe, CEO of Access Holdings, speaking at AFIS
- Runtime
- 45:09
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- One of Nigeria's leading bankers, Herbert Wigwe, talks to Nicholas Norbrook at the Africa Financial Industry Summit in Lomé, Togo, on 16 November 2023.
The wide-ranging conversation touched on:
- Access Bank's ambitions to help deliver long-term funding for African institutions and countries in the face of the exit of global banking franchises;
- the role of Lagos as a financial hub for West Africa;
- the exodus of African talent and what can be done,
and much more.
#Nigeria #Banking #Africa #africaceoforum #AFIS @The_AfricaCEOForum @africafinancialsummit @jeuneafriquewebtv @theafricareport3734
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- Investigation: Akon City, an impossible dream?
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- 4:42
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- In August 2020, the singer Akon laid the foundation stone of a smart city, 90 km south of Dakar. This project had aroused great enthusiasm in Senegal, where it received the initial support of the authorities and in particular the head of state, Macky Sall. But work has still not begun. A delay that threatens to scupper this pharaonic project that some suspect to be a fraud. Read the whole investigation all here: https://www.theafricareport.com/297461/is-senegals-akon-city-an-impossible-dream/
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- #117: Mark Suzman, Gates Foundation CEO - "Stop stockpiling vaccines"
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- 26:49
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Source:
https://www.spreaker.com/user/theafricareport/117-mark-suzman-gates-foundation-ceo-sto
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 $50bn endowment that has in the last 18 months thrown itself at the Covid-19 pandemic, funding all manner of research and vaccine trials, and now the COVAX scheme itself.
In this conversation with Nicholas Norbrook, he talks through the thorny nature of global collective action problems, and why the world should fund African vaccines shots to avoid a costly new Covid-19 variant.
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- #116: Can Africa leverage Europe's Green New Deal?
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- 33:30
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Source:
https://www.spreaker.com/user/theafricareport/zainab
The European Union has an ambitious trillion dollar plan to slash emissions by over 50% from 1990 levels by 2030.
This can present opportunities to African countries... but also threats.
Will it lock African farmers out of EU markets? Will it lock finance out of dirty energy projects too soon?
Zainab Usman of the Carnegie Endowment and Olumide Abimbola of the Africa Policy Research Centre join The Africa's Report's Nicholas Norbrook
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- #115: Inside Mozambique's northern insurgency
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- 46:34
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Source:
https://www.spreaker.com/user/theafricareport/moz-mixdown
What next for Al Shabaab, the insurgent group that attacked Palma in the northern Mozambique province of Cabo Delgado in March? Is South Africa on the hook financially and now militarily? What has a decade of drug money done to local politics?
Dino Mahtani, International Crisis Group's Deputy Director for Africa, takes us on a deep dive into Mozambique's thorny security imbroglio.
With Nicholas Norbrook and Patrick Smith.
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- #114: Zambia Hakainde Hichilema - 'We've never seen such levels of corruption'
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- 53:53
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Source:
https://www.spreaker.com/user/theafricareport/final-zambia
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 April as its candidate in this year's polls.
With electoral campaigns now open since 21 May, 19 candidates have so far presented themselves as contenders against Lungu.
But one man in particular is looking to take over from the incumbent president.
He's hoping the sixth time will be a charm.
In this week's Talking Africa, we speak to Hakainde Hichilema, Zambia's main opposition candidate, of the United Party for National Development.
For more, head to www.theafricareport.com
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- #113: Nigeria - The lingering roots left by Britain's looting and killing
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- 1:20:40
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Source:
https://www.spreaker.com/user/theafricareport/mixed-nigeria-colonialism
Today Nigeria’s political system is more fiercely contested than ever with some militants trying to break up the federation – to what extent do these schisms have their roots in the extreme violence of Britain’s commercial exploitation of the territory and its colonial conquest ?
To tackle this question, Talking Africa podcast speaks to Max Siollun, author of What Britain Did To Nigeria; Barnaby Phillips, author of Loot : Britain and the Benin Bronzes , and Funmi Adebayo, an economist and publisher of the Black Monologues podcast series.
This week's Talking Africa is mediated by Patrick Smith.
For more, head to www.theafricareport.com
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- #112 - Obiageli Ezekwesili - "Get interested by politics, or be ruled by idiots"
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- 1:15:17
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Source:
https://www.spreaker.com/user/theafricareport/tar-podcast-ezekwezili-mixdown
Former cabinet minister, co-ordinator of the #BringBankOurGirls campaign, VP at the World Bank... the multi-talented Obiageli Ezekwesili discusses why Nigeria's political elite missed a golden moment to create a nation, rather than just a country.
For more, head to www.theafricareport.com
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- #111: Rwanda - 'The story of a political murder and an African regime gone bad'
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- 1:15:57
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Source:
https://www.spreaker.com/user/theafricareport/tar-podcast-rwanda-tar-3-mixdown
When veteran correspondent Michela Wrong started researching her book, ‘Do Not Disturb – the story of a political murder and an African regime gone bad’ on the killing of Rwanda’s spymaster Patrick Karegeya, she knew it was going to prompt fierce arguments about President Paul Kagame’s record and the country’s direction.
In this special edition of the Talking Africa podcast, Patrick Smith brings together Michela Wrong and Kenyan writer and historian Parselelo Kantai to discuss the issues raised in the book for Rwanda and the wider region.
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- #110: Famine in Ethiopia's Tigray - 'I have never documented anything as relentless & systematic as
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- 46:00
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Source:
https://www.spreaker.com/user/theafricareport/ethiopia-report-tar-2-mixdown
A report published by US-based the World Peace Foundation stresses the looming famine disaster in Ethiopia's Tigray if the fighting does not stop.
Since the first foray into the Tigray by the Ethiopian government in Addis Ababa back in November, the following months have seen an entirely man-made humanitarian crisis unfold.
This report documents how both Ethiopian and Eritrean elements in this Tigray war have single-handedly dismantled the region's economic and food system.
But this can be stopped if the majority of the Tigrayan people, many of whom are are smallholder farmers, are able to farm in time for the rains in June.
For more on the report's findings, we speak to Alex de Waal, the executive director of the WFP in this week's podcast with Patrick Smith.
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- #109: Talking Africa - Nigeria's mass atrocities: How did we get here & how do we get out?
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- 1:03:41
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Source:
https://www.spreaker.com/user/theafricareport/tar-podcast-nigeria-cleaned-mixdown
A recent report released by the Nigeria-based Global Rights organisation, entitled 'Mass Atrocities 2020 Tracking' states 4,556 people were killed in 2020 between January and December.
That's a 43% jump from the number of casualties in 2019. Of that number, 3,188 were civilians, and 698 were state security agents.
Borno state in the North East had the highest number of fatalities followed by Kaduna state in the North West.
As the authors of the report point out: "[...] The swiftest method for determining a nation's propensity for violence, is to measure how its most vulnerable are faring."
Our podcast this week, mediated by Patrick Smith, will speak to two contributors to the report on Nigeria’s proliferating security clashes to better understand what has led to this spike in violence, and what can be done to address them.
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- #108: Niger's 'African Apocalypse'
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- 49:55
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Source:
https://www.spreaker.com/user/theafricareport/african-apocalpyse-mixed
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.
Known as the Voulet-Chanoine mission, it was led by captain Paul Voulet in 1898. in just a few months, he spearheaded a campaign of terror as he made his way towards lake chad, in an effort to unite all of france’s territories in west Africa. Nearly a year later, the expedition ended. but the damage was done. and the scars are still felt to this day.
In a feature-length documentary called ‘African Apocalypse, Femi Nyader and Rob Lemkin retrace the path of Voulet and meet the people who still share the stories of their families who survived the campaign. We speak to them about their visual journey.
- Title
- #107: Africa's trade dreams meet Liberian roads
- Runtime
- 15:53
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Source:
https://www.spreaker.com/user/theafricareport/liberiamp3
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 increasing intra-continental trade with the potential to stimulate growth, industrialisation and generate an additional $450 billion for African countries by 2035.
But connectivity issues, including weak transport infrastructure and the added costs that come with it, have been flagged as a significant challenge to the success of the initiative across the continent.
Liberia will be no exception, given the deplorable state of much of its road network, with motorbikes the primary means of transporting goods and passengers in rural areas.
We follow cocoa traders and farmers, as they struggle to move their crop from harvest to port.
