Make sense of a disrupted world
Add this topic to your myFT Digest for news straight to your inbox
More effort is needed to prevent the outflow of local clinical talent
Private sector can help overstretched state facilities but experts warn of vested interests
Good health enables people to learn and earn, to start buinesses and to thrive
Five-day disappearance of Peter Magombeyi ignited fury over state repression
Row over interment of former dictator shows he remains divisive figure even in death
President Biya intervenes in bloody linguistic conflict — but is criticised for speaking only in French
Kagame’s government implicated in killing of former intelligence head
President for three decades who squandered high hopes and left his country in crisis
Freedom fighter came to be seen as a despot after rigging votes and crushing dissent
Fragile successes should to be nurtured by civil society and politicians
Probes by Busisiwe Mkhwebane raise suspicions she is ally of Jacob Zuma’s faction
Re-election of Mutharika has plunged nation into months-long crisis
Despite massive problems, vast continent is faring better than many people imagine
Governments, multilateral groups and smaller companies are co-operating to electrify region
Felix Tshisekedi names cabinet following months of negotiations
Dictator who loomed over country for a generation faces corruption charges
Economist Abdalla Hamdok sworn in under transitional agreement
Riot police charge crowds and tear-gas Red Cross personnel helping the injured
An FT investigation reveals that some statistics could have been manipulated
Splits among former rebels and separate conflict in north mean stability not yet assured
Latest in series of attacks on political and civic freedoms in east African country
South African leader’s advisers cool on allowing expropriation without payment
Claims of vote rigging spark political crisis in one of world’s poorest countries
Country’s first democratically elected leader had been due to step down this year
Henry Rotich appears in court to face accusations over hydroelectric dam projects
