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Africa

  • Tuesday, 25 March, 2025
    How To Host It
    Laila Gohar’s night at the Egyptian Museum

    The artist’s latest feast in Cairo is an homage to her country’s culinary and cultural history

    The author in front of her pomegranate seed fountain
  • Sunday, 23 March, 2025
    News in-depthSudan
    The battle for Khartoum: Sudan war comes full circle

    Sudanese Armed Forces recapture presidential palace and central bank headquarters, but fighting is not over

    Sudanese army soldiers celebrate after taking over the Republican Palace in Khartoum
  • Saturday, 22 March, 2025
    Travel
    On the trail of myths and mirages, deep in the Egyptian desert

    While most tourists stick to the Nile valley, Stanley Stewart heads west into a land of oases, temples, monks and miracles

    A jeep drives through a desert surrounded by strange mushroom-like white rock formations
  • Friday, 21 March, 2025
    Sudan
    Sudan’s army recaptures presidential palace in Khartoum

    Victory brings army closer to controlling capital but adds to danger of country’s de facto partition

    Sudanese army personnel inside the presidential palace in Khartoum
  • Friday, 21 March, 2025
    The Big Read
    The illicit oil trade that is keeping Libya divided

    Heavily subsidised fuels are being smuggled out of the country and sold abroad, helping sustain its rival political factions

    Montage of oil storage tanks, a Libyan flag and a map showing Libya
  • Friday, 21 March, 2025
    Special ReportFuture of Water
    Mismanagement turns up pressure on South Africa’s water system

    Reservoirs may be full but poor maintenance, lack of investment and criminality are disrupting supplies

    A person collects water from an outdoor tap, filling a yellow bucket while a blue bucket sits below
  • Wednesday, 19 March, 2025
    The Future of Aid
    The country that kicked out USAID

    Two decades after Eritrea expelled the American agency, other nations must now find a way to survive without it

    Montage of Eritrean women carrying bags of concrete mixture and rocks for a reservoir project, USAID and World Food Programme logos on a damaged box, and a pixelated world map
  • Tuesday, 18 March, 2025
    Nigeria
    Bet on Nigerian recovery draws investors seeking to dodge trade wars

    Africa’s most populous country among former crisis-hit economies attracting foreign inflows

    A customer exchanges Nigerian 1000 Naira banknotes for US dollar banknotes with a street currency dealer at a market in Lagos, Nigeria
  • Sunday, 16 March, 2025
    African politics
    Ethiopia fighting threatens return to civil and regional war

    Security concerns for Africa’s second most populous country and neighbouring Eritrea as fragile peace looks set to unravel

    Tigray People’s Liberation Front fighters arriving in the regional capital Mekelle
  • Saturday, 15 March, 2025
    FT Globetrotter
    Welcome to Nollywood, the Lagos-born movie universe

    The accidental origins, rise, decline and resurgence of Nigeria’s vast and vibrant film industry

    Genevieve Nnaji standing in front a crowd of people in a scene from ‘Lionheart’
  • Friday, 14 March, 2025
    US foreign policy
    US declares South African ambassador ‘persona non grata’

    Secretary of state Marco Rubio expels Ebrahim Rasool after he criticised Donald Trump in an online lecture

    Ebrahim Rasool
  • Friday, 14 March, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    US and Israel approach African countries to resettle Gazans

    Idea of displacing Palestinian population has been widely opposed, including by countries being approached

    A boy stands on a hill, looking over a large tent camp for displaced Palestinians
  • Friday, 14 March, 2025
    FT Globetrotter
    Inside Lagos’s top private members’ clubs

    An exclusive tour of the establishments favoured by the city’s executives and power brokers

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  • Thursday, 13 March, 2025
    TotalEnergies
    US swings behind TotalEnergies’ vast Mozambique gas project

    Trump administration frees up $4.7bn loan to French company that was frozen since 2021

    Mozambican marines on the docks of the Total gas plant in Afungi in the Cabo Delgado province
  • Thursday, 13 March, 2025
    FT Globetrotter
    Tips from the top: Iré Hassan- Odukale’s favourite Lagos eateries

    The Lagos-born co-founder of the acclaimed London restaurant Ikoyi shares his top addresses

    Lagos-born chef Iré Hassan-Odukale
  • Thursday, 13 March, 2025
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    Big budget Saudi TV series stirs controversy in Middle East

    Iraq and Iran have banned mega production focused on seventh-century schism between Sunni and Shia Muslims

    A still from “Muawiya”
  • Wednesday, 12 March, 2025
    FT Globetrotter
    Lagos business etiquette: the dos and don’ts

    How to navigate everything from greetings to meetings to dress code in the Nigerian megacity

    A vibrant, stylised illustration depicting silhouetted figures in a mix of bold, geometric shapes and bright colours, evoking a lively social gathering
  • Wednesday, 12 March, 2025
    The Future of Aid
    The railway that China hopes will take on the US in Africa

    Tazara project showcases Beijing’s leaner approach to overseas development just as western aid appears to retreat

    Montage of pixelated world map in black and red, construction of Tazara railway in 1973, and the Tazara Memorial Museum in Lusaka, Zambia
  • Wednesday, 12 March, 2025
    Climate change
    More than half of world’s most populated cities are getting wetter, research finds

    Shift in weather patterns also sees cities such as Madrid and Hong Kong flip from wet to dry

    Rainfall in Lahore, Pakistan last December
  • Tuesday, 11 March, 2025
    Energy Source
    How Nigeria’s Dangote refinery is fuelling a petrol price war Premium content

    The economic case for cutting prices tells only half the story

    A fuel attendant fills a container with fuel for a customer at a Nigerian National Petroleum Company gas station
  • Tuesday, 11 March, 2025
    FT Globetrotter
    Power dining in Lagos: an insider guide

    The restaurants that really mean business in west Africa’s finance hub

    Diners in Lagos’s SLoW restaurant
  • Monday, 10 March, 2025
    FT Globetrotter
    Lagos with the FT

    The joys of Nigeria’s bustling beachside hub

  • Monday, 10 March, 2025
    FT Globetrotter
    Tips from the top: novelist Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀’s favourite Lagos bookshops

    The award-winning author takes us on a bibliophile’s tour of her hometown

    Novelist Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ
  • Monday, 10 March, 2025
    Ruchir Sharma
    The new economic stars born through crisis 

    Financial stress is forcing reform and recovery in many overlooked countries 

    Desalter tanks and pipework at the Dangote Industries Ltd. oil refinery and fertilizer plant site in the Ibeju Lekki district of Lagos, Nigeria
  • Monday, 10 March, 2025
    FT News Briefing podcast12 min listen
    The Trump nominee uniting Democrats and Republicans

    Both the left and the right like Donald Trump’s antitrust nominee. Wall Street doesn’t

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