Demography, finance, GDP: Africa24 is born, the Sole 24 Ore newsletter to tell you about the Continent in the plural
Fortnightly appointment with economic, political and financial news from the south (and north) of the Sahara, including analysis and field reports
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Over 50 countries, a population set to double to 2.5 billion by 2050, a GDP rising at an incomparable rate and the prospects of a free trade area three times the size of Europe. But also a land, or rather a land of paradoxes between poverty and extreme wealth, democratic development and coup d'état involutions, the anxieties of jiahadism and international competition for the resources that abound in its bowels: from the already mature advance of China to the more vigorous ones of Russia and Turkey, from the break with the former European colonies to the search for interlocutions with an ever wider range of partners. Africa, in the plural, is a continent increasingly at the heart of international balances, an unparalleled crossroads of interests, opportunities and risks. Africa24, the new fortnightly newsletter of Il Sole 24 Ore, will try to untangle the news flowing daily from the Continent between economics, politics and finance, drawing on our online and paper daily and on Il Secolo Africano: the section of 24+ that tells you about the scenarios of the continent's economies from 2019. Subscribe here.
Each edition will contain an appointment with the salient events of the last few days, a commentary on the events that have most affected us from the continent, and a story (or a cue) that we want to bring to your attention to read about Africa beyond the news. The content comes from the daily flow of news about government manoeuvres, elections, financial operations such as the bond-fever south of the Sahara and the macro-challenges awaiting the Continent: growth and the sustainability of the debt that finances it, the climate emergency, the insecurity that is rampant from the Sahel to Mozambique, or the boundless potential of a market that is moving towards integration with the African continental free trade area and is attempting to vitalise private individuals and outside investors. Our newsletter will tell you about Africa and will sometimes come from Africa, between field reports and coverage of the major events on the continent's agenda. The ambition is to go beyond the legacies of Africa as a kind of homogenous block, at the mercy of external winds and appetites: an Africa in the plural, as vast as its possibilities.
