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David Pilling

Africa Editor

David Pilling is the Africa editor of the Financial Times. He was previously Asia editor and also formerly Tokyo Bureau Chief for the FT from January 2002 to August 2008. His column ranges over business, investment, politics and economics.

He joined the FT in 1990. He has worked in London as an editor, in Chile and Argentina as a correspondent and covered the global pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry.

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  • Thursday, 21 January, 2021
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Unequal vaccine access will return to haunt the rich

    As developed countries race to roll out Covid-19 jabs, poorer nations fear they are missing out

  • Wednesday, 20 January, 2021
    World
    Museveni’s grip on Uganda: ‘he doesn’t believe in change’

    The longstanding president won a sixth term amid allegations of vote-rigging, corruption, and nepotism

  • Friday, 15 January, 2021
    Person in the News
    Bobi Wine, a tenacious challenger set on power in Uganda

    During his campaign, Africa’s ‘ghetto president’ has been beaten and thrown in jail more times than he can recall

  • Friday, 1 January, 2021
    Jack Ma
    Jack Ma disappears from his own talent show

    Troubled billionaire is replaced as judge of ‘Africa’s Business Heroes’ competition

  • Wednesday, 30 December, 2020
    FT World videoWorld11 min
    How the world could change in 2021

    FT journalists make their predictions for the coming year

  • Tuesday, 29 December, 2020
    African economy
    African countries not ready to implement free trade from January

    AfCFTA’s secretariat says adoption will be slow as many nations lack border facilities

  • Monday, 28 December, 2020
    South Africa
    South Africa battles to control second Covid wave as cases top 1m

    Infections surge feared to have been driven by behavioural change

  • Wednesday, 23 December, 2020
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Coronavirus variant first detected in South Africa identified in Britain

    Health minister says new strain may be more infectious than the one discovered in UK

  • Wednesday, 23 December, 2020
    African politics
    Democracy in Africa is in retreat

    But the clamour from the street for representation and justice is getting louder

  • Promoted Content
  • Wednesday, 9 December, 2020
    Ghana
    Ghana president Akufo-Addo wins second term but with smaller margin

    Parliamentary seats neck and neck in possible blow to ruling party’s prospects for easy four years

  • Sunday, 6 December, 2020
    Ethiopia
    Ethiopia pushes telecoms privatisation despite security worries

    Bidders say curbs on mobile banking and access to infrastructure will affect sale

  • Sunday, 6 December, 2020
    News in-depthGhana
    Africa watches with envy at Ghana’s ‘boring’ presidential race

    Relative lack of violence or vote rigging marks contest out as rare example of democratic values

  • Wednesday, 2 December, 2020
    Africa
    Ethiopia’s war of words as divisive as fighting on the ground

    Federal government of Abiy Ahmed and TPLF in Tigray are engaged in brutal propaganda struggle

  • Sunday, 29 November, 2020
    Ethiopia
    Ethiopia’s military has ‘completed’ operations in Tigray, says PM Abiy

    Country’s leader says troops have taken control of regional capital Mekelle

  • Thursday, 26 November, 2020
    Ethiopia
    Constitutional question at the heart of Ethiopia’s fight in Tigray

    Some see ‘ethnic federalism’ and a ‘nation of nations’ as the country’s salvation, others as its damnation

  • Wednesday, 25 November, 2020
    Africa
    Ethiopia PM Abiy orders ‘final stage’ of military conflict in Tigray

    Addis says foreign powers should stop meddling as military prepares for assault on Mekelle in pursuit of TPLF leadership

  • Thursday, 19 November, 2020
    Uganda
    Uganda security forces shoot supporters of Bobi Wine

    Killings mark a sharp escalation in violence two months before elections are due to take place

  • Wednesday, 18 November, 2020
    News in-depthThe Big Read
    Ethiopia crisis: ‘a political mess that makes fathers fight sons’

    The conflict in Tigray is the biggest test of Abiy Ahmed’s premiership and threatens to spill over into neighbouring countries

  • Sunday, 15 November, 2020
    News in-depthEthiopia
    Tigray crisis: ‘They know how to fight and they can do it ’til the end’

    Ethiopian region has tradition of hardened fighters but Abiy says offensive can end quickly

  • Wednesday, 11 November, 2020
    Abiy Ahmed
    The curse of the premature Nobel Peace Prize

    The Ethiopian prime minister Abiy Ahmed may have been given the award too soon

  • Tuesday, 10 November, 2020
    Travel
    Gorillas with a twist: on a Covid-era safari in Rwanda

    A trickle of lucky tourists are returning for a socially distanced audience with the great apes

  • Friday, 6 November, 2020
    Ethiopia
    How Ethiopia’s Abiy Ahmed went from man of peace to a leader at war

    Domestic conflict threatens to wreck any chance of peaceful democratic transition promised by Nobel Peace Prize winner

  • Thursday, 5 November, 2020
    News in-depthEthiopia
    What’s at stake as conflict flares in Ethiopia?

    Military confrontation in Africa’s second most populous country could spill out across the region

  • Wednesday, 4 November, 2020
    Ethiopia
    Ethiopian fighting breaks out after federal troops sent to quell rebellion

    Abiy Ahmed accuses Tigrayan regional government of deploying its armed forces against federal army base

  • Thursday, 29 October, 2020
    Special ReportNigeria at 60
    Nigeria at 60: my country’s greatest achievements and failings

    Leading lights, including WTO frontrunner Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, spell out a nation’s highs and lows, and their hopes for the future

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