INTERNATIONAL FINANCE OP-ED Why foreign loans are a self-imposed straitjacket for SA’s economy 4 min 1 By Liso Mdutyana and Matshidiso Lencoasa
G20 FINANCE TRACK The price of inequality — Africa’s fight for fair finance at the G20 3 min 4 By Neesa Moodley
TRUMP 2.0 Trump administration pulls more than $1bn of pledged funding for SA’s energy transition 3 min 5 By Ethan van Diemen
NORTHERN EXPOSURE Zimbabwe’s sovereign wealth fund paid ‘grossly inflated’ $1.6bn for shares in mining house 4 min 4 By Peter Fabricius
BIASED PROCESSES OP-ED Developing economies bear the brunt of greening Europe through EU carbon taxes 4 min 2 By Kelly Alexander
DEBT CRISIS OP-ED World needs a new Special Drawing Rights issuance — SA should champion the way 1 min 0 By Michael Galant and Kamal Ramburuth
EQUITABLE SECURITY OP-ED Southern African countries continue to be tardy in ratifying critical protection for women traders 4 min 0 By Mandipa Machacha and Sasha Middleton
MINING INDABA As EV sales stall, obituaries of the internal combustion engine look premature 4 min 10 By Ed Stoddard and Georgina Crouth
AFRICA UNSCRAMBLED OP-ED Zimbabwe’s democracy is in ICU facing ‘death by a thousand cuts’, but desire for change is still alive 6 min 2 By Phillip van Niekerk
AFRICA UNSCRAMBLED OP-ED ‘Pathway to hope’: It’s time to give Zimbabwe back to the people 3 min 0 By Phillip van Niekerk
PORTS BLOCKADE Only Putin can end the global food crisis, says UK’s Minister for Africa 2 min 0 By Peter Fabricius
ACCRA, GHANA SA ‘finding a space’ for investors, says Finance Minister Godongwana, but list of risks growing 4 min 0 By Carien du Plessis
CONSUMER STRIFE Godongwana: Sit tight and hope for possible petrol price hike softeners 3 min 1 By Carien du Plessis
GATHERING IN GHANA Food security, war in Ukraine and climate crisis in the spotlight as African Development Bank meets 3 min 0 By Carien du Plessis
FOSSIL FUELS OP-ED African Development Bank kicks civil society organisations to the kerb at COP26 5 min 1 By Charity Migwi, Dean Bhebhe and Nicole Rodel
ISS TODAY ANALYSIS Africa’s access to international capital markets may open doors to more sustainable funding than bilateral loans 4 min 0 By Kouassi Yeboua
COP26 Hot Air Inc: Will R131-billion enable a just transition from coal for South Africa? 8 min 2 By Onke Ngcuka at COP26, Glasgow
ISS TODAY: ANALYSIS Nigeria needs to find its place in Africa and develop a more cooperative continental foreign policy 4 min 0 By Teniola Tayo
OP-ED The Covid-19 pandemic has tested Africa to the limits – but there are many signs of hope 4 min 0 By Abebe Shimeles