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Politics

Africa/Middle East

The lavish motorcade of Kenya's president, the new jet-set of Nigeria, and an old banknote for West Africa returns.

  • Issue #60
  • 4 min read
Africa/Middle East
Affairs

Africa/Middle East

Zimbabwe will see a violent election, Africa will begin to reject the IMF's prescriptions and all eyes will be on the new leader of the African Union.

  • Issue #59
  • 4 min read
Africa/Middle East
Media

Turn on to China

As part of a soft-power drive, the Chinese media is learning a new language. Monocle visits CNC World, a new 24-hour English-language news channel owned by the state-run agency Xinhua.

  • Issue #41
  • 10 min read
Turn on to China
Affairs

Africa/Middle

A pan-Middle Eastern science venture, a Lebanese brain drain and an oil boost from Namibia.

  • Issue #46
  • 5 min read
Boom time
Affairs

Africa/Middle East

A look at the wardrobe of South Sudan's president, plus election watch in Mali and solving Lebanon's power-shortage problems.

  • Issue #52
  • 1 min read
Mali presidential candidate Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta speaking at a podium during a campaign rally in a crowded stadium.
Affairs

Africa/Middle East

Why Africa is frantically going green, Saudi Arabia is desperately building houses, and South Africa is learning to love fracking.

  • Issue #51
  • 5 min read
Worker in traditional Middle Eastern dress laying concrete blocks on a construction site.
Business

Arms and the man

The defence industry is intertwined with politics and nationhood. Ivor Ichikowitz is a man at the heart of all three in Africa but don’t call him an arms dealer; he insists on good intentions.

  • Issue #48
  • 8 min read
Close-up detail of the AHRLAC reconnaissance aircraft engine and propeller assembly.
Affairs

Africa/Middle East

What Sultan Qaboos of Oman uses to get around, why the African Union is having an identity crisis and how recent unrest has affected stock exchanges

  • Issue #44
  • 4 min read
Man in brown traditional clothing and cap standing outside a tent structure.

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