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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…

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…

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…

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…

Challenges to African incumbents will grow

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AFRICA

The continent’s trajectory is not a uniformly bleak one, however, as it also features the only two countries to move towards democracy during the COVID-19 pandemic: Malawi and…