- Thursday, June 04, 2026
BusinessDay
AT HIS PENTECOSTAL church in Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital, Bishop Never Muparutsa sighs at the empty pews. In recent weeks, as...
CRITICS OF ECONOMICS like to say that its abstract theories lack real-world pay-offs. There is a glaring counter-example: the global...
ALTHOUGH IT IS guarded by high walls and a thick metal door, a nightclub in Kano hardly bothers to conceal...
THIS WAS supposed to be a rare moment of cautious optimism in Libya. On April 4th António Guterres, the UN’s...
AFTER MONTHS of heated campaigning, Israeli voters decided to change very little. With most of the votes counted the prime...
IS THERE ANY more miserable spectacle in global business than that of Europe’s lenders? A decade after the crisis they...
“LIKE SHOE polish”, is how one oilman describes Uganda’s black stuff. It is waxy when heated and solid at room...
THERE ARE two ways to talk about politics. One describes the dry mechanics of government. The language of bills and...
AT THE HEART of economics is a belief in the virtues of open competition as a way of using the...
AT DUSK ON February 27th a group of young men dressed as football players were kicking a ball around a...
ALMOST TWO years ago Masayoshi Son, a Japanese tycoon, broke all the rules of investing by setting up a new...
“THE BIRTHDAY of a new world is at hand.” Ever since Thomas Paine penned those words in 1776, America has...
THE NEWS could not have come at a worse time for Benny Gantz, the main challenger to Binyamin Netanyahu, the...
MUNICIPAL AUTHORITIES in Nairobi spent much of last year knocking things down. Shopping malls, petrol stations and apartment blocks were...
THE FIRST great surge of foreign interest in Africa, dubbed the “scramble”, was when 19th-century European colonists carved up the...
