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The Muslim Brotherhood is more divided and weaker than ...

But it is far from finished in the Middle East

Forget gold and copper. Africa’s latest boom is in fruit

A surge in fruit exports shows how high-value agriculture can spur industrialisa...

The return of the African megaproject

Could a new era of big infrastructure developments accelerate growth?

The War Room newsletter: America’s defeat in Afghanista...

Steve Coll, our senior editor, asks what the anniversary means in Kabul and Wash...

More “peace” and more funerals in Gaza

Despite Trump’s declarations, Gazans remain hostages to Israeli politics

Why Rwandans are warming to dogs

Shunned after the genocide, they have become a status symbol

Zambia’s election is a test of metal

High copper prices are a boon. But voters want to feel it

How long can Iran weaponise Hormuz?

Longer than the world hopes, according to our Hormuz dependency dashboard

America has few good options for a “massive attack” on ...

Even renewed assaults on Iran’s nuclear programme may not prevent a forever war

War in the Gulf has weakened two of America’s Arab allies

Egypt promised to fight and Jordan promised to stay neutral. Neither delivered

Saudi Arabia is locked in a dangerous stand-off with th...

By threatening shipping, the Yemeni rebels hope to wring concessions from the ki...

Gulf countries are experts at air-conditioning

They want to sell their technology to the world

Mogadishu no longer deserves its deadly reputation

Why security in the Somali capital is improving

An African vision of artificial intelligence

Tech pioneers favour models suited to specific tasks that use little compute

West Africa has become a huge cocaine-trading hub

Scrutiny of other routes has changed traffickers’ strategy for shipping to Europe

Analysing Africa newsletter: A dispatch from Sudan’s ru...

Tom Gardner, our Africa correspondent, takes a rare trip to Khartoum

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