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What is happening within South Africa’s Government of National Unity?

Well, not much unity, even as the coalition government celebrates its first birthday.

South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa fires one deputy minister, but claims there will be no cabinet reshuffle… but the DA think something else is going on.

FIND OUT WHY

Plus read this great profile of the probable next Mayor of New

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A quiet storm is gathering across Nigeria’s opposition landscape.

Weekly meetings, guarded strategy sessions and cross-regional alliances are slowly converging with the objective of unseating President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the Feb

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Have you had enough Dangote news yet?

Ok then. On Sunday, Dangote Petroleum Refinery announced it will begin distributing petrol and diesel directly from its facility to fuel stations, depots, manufacturers, and telecom companies using its fleet of road tankers, marking the company’s formal entry into the countr

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As hostility between Ethiopia and Eritrea mounts, Tigray’s armed forces are fracturing.

A founding member of the newly-

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The white smoke took just three rounds…

Sidi Ould Tah was elected president of the African Development Ba

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The second term of the president of the African Development Bank is coming to an end…. this week will see elections for his successor.

Akinwumi Adesina points out that, in 10 years, the AfDB has supported projects benefitting half of the continent’s inhabitants.

But despite significant gains, his legacy is mixed.

FIND OUT MORE

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Ambitious? Moi?

Fresh from a week of wooing French investors, South Africa’s Deputy President Paul Ma

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Nothing Gayton McKenzie does is small. The political ambitions of South Africa’s minister of arts and sport follows the rule.

“I have presidential aspirations. I am serving in the Government of National Unity [which] is making sure our country doesn’t become Armageddon,” he tells The Africa Report from the sidelines of the South Africa-France Investment

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Inside the digital cult glorifying Burkina Faso’s military leader Ibrahim Traoré

As insurgency intensifies a

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We are getting used to Trump announcements about the dismemberment of its Africa-facing diplomacy.

Donald Trump plans to axe America’s contribution to the African Development Fund, the concessional arm of the AfD