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  • Sunday, 16 February, 2025
    News in-depthArcelorMittal South Africa Ltd
    South Africa fights to save its apartheid-era steel mills

    Looming closure of century-old plants threatens to kill manufacturing in continent’s most industrialised economy

    Pipework in the yard of the closed ArcelorMittal Saldanha Works steel plant in South Africa
  • Friday, 14 February, 2025
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    DR Congo urges NBA to cut Rwanda ties

    President Paul Kagame’s government has made sport a key focus of its international soft power campaign

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  • Friday, 14 February, 2025
    Glencore
    Glencore held talks over sale of multibillion-dollar African copper mines

    Potential disposals in DR Congo and Kazakhstan could be biggest by Swiss miner since Gary Nagle took charge in 2021

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  • Thursday, 13 February, 2025
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    Britain will not thrive in a might is right world

    Attacks on attorney-general Lord Hermer illuminate a wider battle about how to defend UK interests

    Nigel Farage, in judge’s robes, holds a gavel over a miniature man while turning the thumb of the other hand towards the ground
  • Thursday, 13 February, 2025
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    The artist upended the macho 1970s movement and made Malibu her haven — then the fire came

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  • Thursday, 13 February, 2025
    David Pilling
    South Africa has been blindsided by Donald Trump

    The US president’s attacks on the country might actually unite its people

    Cyril Ramaphosa, seen through ranks of uniformed soldiers, arrives at City Hall for the State of the Nation Address in Cape Town
  • Wednesday, 12 February, 2025
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    Moscow seeks new foothold in face of uncertainty about future of its base in Syria after Bashar al-Assad’s fall

    Sergei Lavrov and his Sudanese counterpart Ali Yousuf Al-Sharif shake hands
  • Wednesday, 12 February, 2025
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    Foreign minister Ronald Lamola says there is ‘no chance’ country will drop case after US orders halt to aid

    South Africa’s then minister of justice Ronald Lamola and ambassador to the Netherlands Vusimuzi Madonsela at the International Court of Justice last year
  • Wednesday, 12 February, 2025
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    Musk’s nearly $100bn bid complicates already complex restructuring

  • Tuesday, 11 February, 2025
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    ‘$CAR’ crypto token plunges in value amid concerns over project’s authenticity

    Central African Republic President Faustin Archange Touadéra
  • Tuesday, 11 February, 2025
    Sudan
    Sudan army nears biggest victory of civil war with assault on capital

    Khartoum offensive comes as battlefield gains help turn tide of conflict in military’s favour

    Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, head of Sudan’s armed forces, greets army officers
  • Tuesday, 11 February, 2025
    Special ReportThe Future of Cities
    Thwarted ambition triggers dissent among Africa’s urban young

    Gap between education and opportunity is fostering generational frustration and protests as cities expand

    Commuters wait for buses in Nairobi’s Central Business District
  • Sunday, 9 February, 2025
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    Namibia’s ‘founding father’ Sam Nujoma dies at 95

    Former guerrilla leader and president fought against apartheid and South African control

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  • Friday, 7 February, 2025
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    The strongman reshaping central Africa

    A Rwandan-backed campaign in DR Congo exposes how Paul Kagame turned his genocide-scarred country into a belligerent military force

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  • Friday, 7 February, 2025
    Visual Arts
    Inside Marrakech’s oasis for African art

    The revamped Macaal museum showcases the continent-spanning Lazraq collection of modern and contemporary art

    A landscape with snow-capped mountains in the background, then orange desert, and at the front, a green garden with three black, abstract sculptures
  • Friday, 7 February, 2025
    De Beers
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    Chief of diamonds producer says government has ‘expressed interest’ in increasing its holding

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  • Friday, 7 February, 2025
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    Global investors had time to prepare for Donald Trump’s tariffs but were still caught off guard

  • Thursday, 6 February, 2025
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    Top US diplomat echoes Donald Trump and Elon Musk in condemning promotion of ‘solidarity’ and ‘sustainability’

    US secretary of state Marco Rubio
  • Wednesday, 5 February, 2025
    Aga Khan
    The new Aga Khan, leader of Ismaili Muslims, is named

    Prince Rahim Al-Hussaini will succeed his late father, who founded a vast business development network

    Prince Rahim Al-Hussaini, the new Aga Khan
  • Wednesday, 5 February, 2025
    UK foreign policy
    UK says Mauritian premier gave ‘inaccurate’ account of Chagos Islands deal

    Diplomatic intervention came after Ramgoolam said earlier version did not factor in inflation

    Navin Ramgoolam
  • Wednesday, 5 February, 2025
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    State capture by South Africans: a comparative history

    Ajay, Atul, Rajesh, and Elon

  • Tuesday, 4 February, 2025
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    US national security adviser to discuss Chagos Islands deal with UK counterpart

    Mike Waltz and Jonathan Powell will hold talks about the Indian Ocean territory

    Diego Garcia, the largest island in the Chagos archipelago
  • Tuesday, 4 February, 2025
    South Africa
    South Africa’s coalition clashes over Starlink as Musk attacks equality laws

    Government divided over whether to exempt US satellite company from post-apartheid Black empowerment rules

    A montage featuring Elon Musk on the left and South Africa’s trade minister Parks Tau on the right, with the South African flag and a faded Starlink logo in the background
  • Tuesday, 4 February, 2025
    TotalEnergies
    UK takes legal advice over pulling out of $20bn Total LNG project in Mozambique

    Britain has pledged to halt new export finance to oil and gas developments in wake of COP26 in 2021

    Rwandan policemen stand guard near a coastal area at the Total Mozambique LNG Project in Afungi, Cabo Delgado province
  • Monday, 3 February, 2025
    South Africa
    Trump pledges to stop US assistance to South Africa over land law

    Rand falls after US president singles out Brics nation over expropriation of properties

    Cyril Ramaphosa addresses supporters at a podium during a rally in Johannesburg
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