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Emerging markets robust growth proves elusive for South Africa
South African policymakers are in a quandary. The African National Congress (ANC) government, which first came to power in 1994, has earned international admiration for slashing the budget and current account deficits, controlling inflation and strengthening the country's foreign reserves. more | |
Ill-judged measures spur Zimbabwean decline
In few African countries is the sense of disappointment - even of failure - greater than in Zimbabwe. The country that, at independence in 1980 had so much going for it, is poorer now than then. more | |
Tanzania - a sub-Saharan success story
Last December, Tanzania's Revenue Authority (TRA) had a novel idea. It hired an aerial advertising company to fly up and down the coastline, trailing a banner with a chilling message: "Customs are watching you." more | |
Breathtaking health challenge for Africa
In a continent which has for three decades struggled to keep with pace with the global economy, few newly identified trends have the ability to take the observer's breath away. more | |
New moves to silence African drums of war
If it penetrates the popular consciousness at all, Central African Republic (CAR) conjures up memories from the 1970s of Emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa, the self-styled Black Napoleon who gave a gift of diamonds to a French president and was accused of some of the worst excesses that Africa has witnessed since independence. more | |
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