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How to make cash in Africa’s coup belt 

Mining multinationals are learning to do business with juntas 

Lebanon’s new government must do three big things immed...

It needs money to reform, but donors want to see reforms before they write cheques

A horrific killing spree shakes Syria

Fresh atrocities suggest a country spiralling out of control

Why some Africans see opportunity in foreign-aid cuts

They want to be more self-reliant. But that will not be easy

South Africa’s government is looking fragile

A spat over the budget exposes deepening rifts

Abiy Ahmed’s agricultural revolution is too good to be ...

The prime minister claims to have made Ethiopia Africa’s breadbasket. The number...

Binyamin Netanyahu likens himself to Donald Trump

Israel’s prime minister is again under pressure from lawyers and security men

After the bloodshed, can Syria’s president unite his co...

A deal with the Kurds may yet shore up Ahmed al-Sharaa’s rule

Another civil war looms in South Sudan

It could merge with the one in neighbouring Sudan, to catastrophic effect

Israel’s strikes may be only the start of a new offensi...

Politics mean Binyamin Netanyahu wants to keep open the possibility of a return ...

The success of Ivory Coast is Africa’s best-kept secret

How has it managed to outshine its peers?

America’s strikes on the Houthis could whip up a region...

Donald Trump has promised to hold Iran accountable for the Yemenis’ attacks

Nigerian politics is a nasty place for women

A sexual-harassment scandal in parliament shows why

A coup attempt in Tigray raises tensions in the Horn

Ethiopia and Eritrea are engaged in a dangerous game of brinkmanship

The war in Gaza has unsettled the Jewish diaspora

They have found uneasy alliances with their new protectors on the right

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