Alexis Akwagyiram
Managing Editor, Semafor Africa
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@alexisakAlexis has covered African news and current affairs for more than a decade at the BBC, Reuters and Financial Times. He was a BBC Africa reporter and led a multimedia team as the Reuters bureau chief in Nigeria. Alexis shaped the FT’s pandemic coverage as its health and science editor.
Ghana gold dispute draws in president’s brother
A legal row involving a company run by a brother of the Ghanaian president threatens to dent investor confidence in the country’s mining sector.
Joey Pfeifer, George Appiah, Francis Kokoroko/Reuters
Ethiopia agrees $1B bond restructuring deal
The agreement moves Africa’s second-most populous country closer to resolving its longstanding debt crisis.
Tiksa Negeri/Reuters
Zimbabwe lithium miners seek processing extension
Africa’s top lithium producer has pressed miners operating in the country to process more of the battery metal locally.
The Prospect Lithium mine in Zimbabwe. Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters.
