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Cover stor y: Ready for takeoff?
Business Intelligence 4 News and deals around Africa Opinion 10 Why Africa must go beyond
concessional finance 12 Why are some creditors more
preferred than others? 34 Navigating today’s debt
restructuring landscape Cover story: Ready for takeoff? 14 Africa’s airlines show signs of
revival but turbulence ahead Special report: Afreximbank meets in the Caribbean 20 The rise of Global Africa, forging
a new economic partnership 22 MANSA aims to streamline due
diligence for African businesses 24 A sustainable blue economy:
lessons from the Caribbean Features 26 Dangote refiner y seeks foreign
oil against expectations 28 The ‘Mattei Plan’: What does
Italy’s Georgia Meloni want from Africa? 30 EV manufacturing shows signs of
promise in Africa 55 Japan muscles in on African
technology start-up scene 56 First Korea-Africa summit focuses
on critical minerals 58 Inter view: CEO of the Sovereign
Wealth Fund of Djibouti, Slim Feriani 62 New observatory to highlight
Africa’s climate finance deficit
74 Rising to the challenges of
electrification in Africa 76 Can factoring help smaller African
enterprises with bills? 78 Africa’s funds too often
dormant or misused, reports Mo Ibrahim Foundation Special report: African
Development Bank AGM 36 Inter view: AfDB President
Akinwumi Adesina looks back after eight years at the top 42 Global financial reform takes
centre stage 46 Africa Investment Forum
launches investment roundtable 48 BRICS expansion’s opportunity
to boost African trade 50 Ecobank deal extends AMEX to
12 new African countries Countryfiles 80 Rebooting Nigeria’s dormant
mining industry 82 As Egyptian tourism recovers,
tour guides mobilise Arts & Culture 84 Young and old drive Africa’s
vibrant art scene 87 Idris Elba hones smart city
and movie production plans
Review 88 Rewriting the record:
Zeinab Badawi’s timely history Editor’s View 90 A mental health challenge in African workplaces
