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Tanzania’s extractive sector faces mixed prospects

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TANZANIA

Renewed momentum for these projects is being viewed positively by investors, many of whom are still struggling with the slow bureaucracy and resource nationalism of President John…

Financial market volatility will linger and may worsen

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INTERNATIONAL

Equities, bonds, cash and gold all suffered outflows in the week ending May 11, according to data provider EPFR Global. More worryingly, the sell-off in equities has spread to the…

Museveni’s return poses challenges to EU-Africa treaty

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AFRICA/EU

However, his triumph also highlights the serious challenges that face a new EU-Africa trade and development treaty due to come onstream in late 2021 in relation to its trade, aid…

Next New York mayor will be powerful but constrained

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UNITED STATES

The city's next mayor must get office workers back into New York to protect its commercial tax base. Polling day for the Democratic primary, which will in effect choose the mayor…

South Sudan's politics constrains the economic outlook

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SOUTH SUDAN

In practice, politics remains mired in factional corruption, and the economy is stagnant. Poverty and food insecurity levels are alarmingly high, and other human development…

DeSantis uses Disney row to impress Trump supporters

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UNITED STATES

The row between DeSantis and Disney highlights the risk that ‘culture wars’ politics can pose to large companies that take positions in response to the increasing importance of…

Sanctions end aids Burundi but may entrench old flaws

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BURUNDI

This move, which was evidently coordinated and timed to coincide with President Evariste Ndayishimiye’s Brussels visit during the EU-African Union Summit, represents a major…

Biden will push rule of law in Central-Eastern Europe

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CENTRAL-EASTERN EUROPE/US

A more functional US-EU collaboration will have collateral effects on elite behaviour and agendas in Central-Eastern Europe (CEE). The emphasis of the Biden administration's…

Policy will cut the risk of booming house prices

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INTERNATIONAL

The government in New Zealand, where the market is particularly buoyant, was the first to react in February. It now requires the Reserve Bank to consider house prices when setting…

South Africa’s DA will return to founding principles

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SOUTH AFRICA

Interim leader MP John Steenhuisen and former DA Youth Leader and KwaZulu-Natal provincial legislator Mbali Ntuli are vying for the post. After a bruising few years, the DA is…