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Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage

@Reuters Africa Senior Markets Correspondent | Past: LGBT+ news @Openly @TRF_Stories, @TheEconomist Lagos & Nairobi | @NLGJA Journalist of the Year 2021 🏳️‍🌈 reuters.com/journalists/ra… Johannesburg Joined September 2011
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Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage

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This year's Rupert Cornwell Prize is open for applications - £5,000 for a journalist under 30 (on Jan 1 2024) to produce work from North America, Europe or ex Soviet Union. I won the first award in 2018 & it was the most extraordinary opportunity. Apply! independent.co.uk/news/media/rup…

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Maxwell Akalaare @Akalaare_

a week ago

WASHINGTON, April 19 (Reuters) - Ghana agreeing a restructuring with holders of its international bonds is "a matter of time" rather than there being insurmountable hurdles, an IMF official said. reuters.com/world/africa/g…

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Maxwell Akalaare @Akalaare_

a week ago

JOHANNESBURG/WASHINGTON, April 19 (Reuters) - Incomes in Sub-Saharan Africa are falling further behind the rest of the world amid a "tepid" economic recovery, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Friday. Story by @rachelmsavage reuters.com/world/africa/s…

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Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage

a week ago

Great story by @jamesoatway, @Zichaze and @nelliepeyton, a microcosm of South Africa and what is at stake in this election

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a week ago

Great story by @jamesoatway, @Zichaze and @nelliepeyton, a microcosm of South Africa and what is at stake in this election

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Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage

a week ago

Is there a major Zambian copper mine that this new Emirati player doesn't have its eyes on? Scoop from @FelixNjini

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Reuters Africa @ReutersAfrica

a week ago

Is there a major Zambian copper mine that this new Emirati player doesn't have its eyes on? Scoop from @FelixNjini

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Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage

a week ago

Development agencies are finding it increasingly hard to persuade wealthy countries worried about wars abroad and elections at home to stump up more cash for the world's poorest. This chart in @libbyegeorge & @KarinStrohecker's story is striking reuters.com/world/battle-d…

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Yemisi Adegoke @briticoyemo

a week ago

"In Nigeria, one product tested up to 6.8g ." Meanwhile in major European markets there is no added sugar in formulas for kids. Later, when people from these countries say they do not trust the West, it will be written off as ignorance and incidents like this will be ignored.

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The Guardian @guardian

a week ago

"In Nigeria, one product tested up to 6.8g ." Meanwhile in major European markets there is no added sugar in formulas for kids. Later, when people from these countries say they do not trust the West, it will be written off as ignorance and incidents like this will be ignored.

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Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage

a week ago

LGBT Ghanaians are waiting in fear to see if a bill that would further restrict their rights - and that they fear could empower homophobes to be "murderous" - will be made law. Sobering story by Maxwell Akalaare Adombila with moving photos by @AccraPhoto reuters.com/world/africa/l…

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Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage

a week ago

I see the Global Sovereign Debt Roundtable has been taking note of @jdorosario's work on the delays for countries in debt restructuring negotiations in getting IMF money 👀reuters.com/business/finan…

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Theo Maret @TheoMaret

a week ago

GSDR progress report just out: status quo on CoT, call for a 3-month timeframe for financing assurances after SLA, no consensus on the treatment of SOE debt and NRH of domestic debt, call for more transparency on the rating impact of debt operations imf.org/en/News/Articl…

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Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage

a week ago

An Israeli shell struck Gaza's largest fertility clinic in December, destroying 4,000 embryos. At least half the couples — those who can no longer produce sperm or eggs to make viable embryos — won't ever be able to get pregnant, said the clinic's founder reuters.com/world/middle-e…

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Theo Maret @TheoMaret

a week ago

The IMF just announced a reform of its financing assurances and arrears policies — it notably introduces a new strand in the LIOA enabling the IMF to approve a program absent the consent of a major official creditor (e.g. China) under certain conditions imf.org/en/News/Articl…

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Joseph Cotterill @jsphctrl

2 weeks ago

“Anybody that is not worried about Jacob Zuma has not been paying attention.” The excellent @nickswicks coverage of South Africa's election continues, on one of its big unknowns - how far will the MK Party be the “wrecking ball”? ft.com/content/5396ae…

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Yemisi Adegoke @briticoyemo

2 weeks ago

Since when did the Nigerian Correctional Service start making this type of information publicly available? And to what end? Other than to humiliate?

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YabaLeftOnline @yabaleftonline

2 weeks ago

Since when did the Nigerian Correctional Service start making this type of information publicly available? And to what end? Other than to humiliate?

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Yousra Elbagir @YousraElbagir

2 weeks ago

Behind the horrifying statistics of Sudan's war, there are millions of families grieving their loved ones whose lives have forever changed. We share for our humanity to be seen after a year of screaming into the void. news.sky.com/story/sudan-vi…

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Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage

2 weeks ago

If you've lost track of Ghana's debt default and restructuring saga (as I have, many times), I've made a handy timeline to help reuters.com/markets/ghanas…

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Joe Bavier @JoeBavier

2 weeks ago

"The Ethiopian authorities are worried about devaluation of the birr, (which) would have serious negative economic repercussions, including soaring inflation and surging foreign currency denominated debts, " said Abdulmenan Mohammed. Via @rachelmsavage reuters.com/world/africa/e…

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Maxwell Akalaare @Akalaare_

2 weeks ago

JOHANNESBURG, April 15 (Reuters) - Ghana has failed to strike a deal with two groups of international bondholders to restructure $13 billion of debt, the government of the West African nation said. Story by @rachelmsavage reuters.com/markets/ghana-…

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