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South Africa’s national airline faces key reform test

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SOUTH AFRICA

SAA business rescue.

Burundi’s new leader offers limited hope of change

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BURUNDI

The main opposition candidate, Agathon Rwasa, took 24.19% of the vote in a poll that appeared carefully stage managed.

South African national minimum wage will prove elusive

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SOUTH AFRICA

Due to take effect on May 1, it would introduce a single wage floor set at 20.0 rand (1.5 dollars) per hour. The NMW is a significant departure from current minimum wage…

Tarnished Kenyan poll will prolong crisis

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KENYA

Kenyatta's determination to push on with the poll comes after one of the seven IEBC commissioners, Roselyn Akombe, admitted publicly on October 18 that the IEBC could not…

Kenya faces growing fiscal consolidation challenges

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KENYA

The weakness of the Kenyan shilling, which is constantly hitting new record lows, has generated so much concern that, on October 24, parliament summoned the central bank governor…

Foreign lobbyists will have limited African success

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AFRICA

Western lobbying.

Political causes hinder Madagascar famine prevention

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MADAGASCAR

The UN has pointed to climate change as the crisis’s main cause. However, the region’s peripheral status, political marginalisation, corrupt governance and poverty play more…

President’s absence will blunt Nigerian foreign policy

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NIGERIA

Nigeria's foreign policy priorities

East Africa infrastructure raises regional tensions

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EAST AFRICA

Regional infrastructure ambitions.

Congo’s elections may become more contentious

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CONGO-KINSHASA

Several have already been excluded from the presidential race. Though notoriously divided, opposition leaders are united in believing that the regime is manipulating the electoral…