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Andres Schipani

East and central Africa correspondent

Andres Schipani is the east and central Africa correspondent of the Financial Times based in Nairobi. He was previously Brazil correspondent and, before moving to São Paulo, he was the Andes and Caribbean correspondent based in Bogotá.

He has also worked in the newspaper's New York bureau as a markets and emerging markets reporter. A native of Buenos Aires, he is a graduate of the universities of Oxford and Columbia.

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  • Friday, 15 April, 2022
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    Human suffering compounded by damage and destruction to historic sites and national monuments

  • Thursday, 14 April, 2022
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    Opposition lambasts ‘desperate and shameful’ plan to send people to African country

  • Wednesday, 13 April, 2022
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  • Monday, 11 April, 2022
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  • Saturday, 9 April, 2022
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  • Friday, 8 April, 2022
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  • Friday, 8 April, 2022
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  • Friday, 8 April, 2022
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  • Thursday, 7 April, 2022
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  • Wednesday, 6 April, 2022
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    Ukrainian president intensifies condemnation as more evidence of atrocities emerges

  • Tuesday, 5 April, 2022
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    French and US presidents urge harsher sanctions against Moscow after reports of atrocities in Bucha

  • Monday, 4 April, 2022
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    Zelensky accuses Moscow of ‘war crimes’ as images emerge of corpses in street and claims of mass graves

  • Sunday, 3 April, 2022
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  • Friday, 1 April, 2022
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    Kyiv claims humanitarian corridors to allow civilians to leave the besieged city have not been opened fully

  • Thursday, 31 March, 2022
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  • Wednesday, 30 March, 2022
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    Officials believe Putin has been ‘misinformed’ by advisers about how the war is playing out

  • Wednesday, 30 March, 2022
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    Ukraine’s president and western allies sceptical of Moscow’s intentions as its troops focus on the east

  • Tuesday, 29 March, 2022
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    Western officials are sceptical about Moscow pledge made following talks with Ukraine in Turkey

  • Tuesday, 29 March, 2022
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  • Monday, 28 March, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Zelensky says Ukraine ready to discuss neutrality in peace talks with Russia

    Kremlin says fact negotiations in Turkey are due to continue this week ‘is important’

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