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Andres Schipani

East and central Africa bureau chief

Andres Schipani is the east and central Africa bureau chief of the Financial Times based in Nairobi. He was previously Brazil correspondent and, before moving to São Paulo, he was the Andes and Caribbean correspondent based in Bogotá.

He has also worked in the newspaper's New York bureau as a markets and emerging markets reporter. A native of Buenos Aires, he is a graduate of the universities of Oxford and Columbia.

Email Andres Schipani @AndresSchipani  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)
  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
    Somaliland
    Turkey says Ethiopia and Somalia to negotiate Horn of Africa deal

    Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announces talks between the two countries to end dispute over breakaway Somaliland region

    2 hours ago
    Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, centre, with Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, left, and Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud following a press conference in Ankara, Turkey
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    News in-depthRomania
    The Wagner-style mercenaries plotting unrest in Romania

    Horaţiu Potra, a former member of the French Foreign Legion, was arrested with 20 other armed men headed for Bucharest

    Palace of the People in Bucharest, plus Horaţiu Potra from video
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Brazil
    Brazilian president Lula in intensive care after emergency brain surgery

    Government says country’s leader is recovering well in São Paulo hospital

    Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva sitting down at the Mercosur leaders summit in Montevideo, Uruguay
  • Monday, 2 December, 2024
    News in-depthUS foreign policy
    Biden embarks on first and final Africa trip as US president with Angola visit

    African allies concerned incoming Trump administration will take stronger line on trade and security ‘reciprocity’

    João Lourenço shakes hands with Joe Biden
  • Wednesday, 27 November, 2024
    News in-depthAdani Group
    ‘Adios Adani!’ Bribery charges threaten group’s Africa ambitions

    Kenya’s reversal of support for airport project underlines global ramifications of US indictment

    Kenyan security services remove a protester outside Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi during a demonstration in September against the planned leasing deal with the Adani Group
  • Thursday, 21 November, 2024
    Adani Group
    $20bn wiped off Adani corporate empire after bribery charges

    US corruption charges against one of India’s richest men sent shares in his businesses reeling

    People in New Delhi, India, protest against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani on Thursday
  • Wednesday, 20 November, 2024
    Oil & Gas industry
    Uganda targets 2027 start for world’s longest heated oil pipeline

    Financing delays blamed on protests will not derail crude project, says minister at COP climate summit

    A local farmer herds livestock near a section of the Kingfisher Feeder Pipeline
  • Sunday, 10 November, 2024
    News in-depthSudan
    Sudan’s lone caretaker protecting ancient treasures from looting

    Civil war creeps closer to an archaeological site with more pyramids than the whole of Egypt

    The pyramids lie in desert sands
  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2024
    Visual investigation
    ‘All the evil’: doctors in the line of fire in world’s forgotten war

    Sudan’s brutal civil war is taking a devastating toll on the country’s health facilities

  • Sunday, 6 October, 2024
    News in-depthHaiti
    Haiti seeks ‘urgent’ reinforcement of Kenya-led force to fight gangs

    Acting prime minister Garry Conille says police have not restored order yet in ‘one neighbourhood’

    Acting Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille visits the capital’s largest General Hospital after the national police took back control in July
  • Monday, 30 September, 2024
    Sudan
    Sudan becoming ‘fertile ground’ for jihadis, says ex-prime minister

    Abdalla Hamdok warns civil war risks spilling over into Sahel without negotiated solution

    Abdalla Hamdok
  • Wednesday, 25 September, 2024
    Travel & leisure industry
    AC Milan in talks to promote war-torn DRC as tourist destination

    Central African country’s neighbour, Rwanda, already uses sports sponsorship to advertise itself

    AC Milan’s Matteo Gabbia, centre, celebrates after scoring his side’s second goal during the Serie A soccer match between Inter Milan and AC Milan
  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
    Sudan
    Russians and Ukrainians help train same side in Sudan’s war

    Intelligence officers say retired pilots from Ukraine and snipers from Russia are both working with Sudanese Armed Forces

    Members of Sudanese Armed Forces take part in an Army Day military parade  in Port Sudan last month
  • Tuesday, 10 September, 2024
    Adani Group
    Kenyan court suspends Adani deal to run Nairobi airport

    Legal challenge is latest blow to Indian conglomerate’s efforts to expand overseas presence

    Members of the Kenya Aviation Workers Union protest outside Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. One protester holds a sign reading "WE REJECT ADANI" during the demonstration against the proposed sale of the airport to Adani Airport Holdings.
  • Tuesday, 10 September, 2024
    The Big Read
    How Sudan’s devastating civil war became a global battleground

    With 150,000 dead and millions displaced, Russia, Iran and the UAE are jockeying for influence.

    A man in camouflage fatigues  carrying a weapon walks between burnt-out vehicles in the streets of Omdurman
  • Monday, 9 September, 2024
    Tanzania
    Killing of opposition politician in Tanzania casts shadow over upcoming elections

    Death comes amid crackdown in run-up to polls despite president signalling break with hardline policies of past

    Freeman Mbowe, chair of opposition party Chadema addresses journalists in 2022
  • Thursday, 5 September, 2024
    Chinese foreign policy
    China’s Xi courts African leaders to ward off geopolitical rivals

    Debt woes, trade imbalances and weakening domestic economy cloud Beijing summit with 50 African countries

    China’s President Xi Jinping and Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa at a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing
  • Wednesday, 4 September, 2024
    Uganda
    Uganda’s Bobi Wine ‘out of danger’ after being injured in police incident

    Pop singer turned opposition leader taken to hospital after being wounded by exploding tear gas canister

    Bobi Wine gives a speech with his daughter Suubi and son Shadrack Mbogo during a public screening of the documentary ‘Bobi Wine: The People’s President’ to celebrate a 2024 Oscar nomination at the HQ of the National Unity Platform in Kampala in January
  • Wednesday, 21 August, 2024
    FT SeriesClamour for Africa
    The US-backed railway sparking a battle for African copper

    Washington’s support for a minerals train connecting the DRC to the Atlantic illustrates its desire to compete with China

    Montage image of a locomotive, a man and a map showing the route of the rail project
  • Friday, 16 August, 2024
    ExplainerMpox
    How dangerous is the mpox public health emergency?

    Authorities are rushing to contain latest outbreak fuelled by a more dangerous type of the virus

    Boy suffering from Mpox in Democratic Republic of Congo July 19, 2024. plus Mpox virus particles in background
  • Wednesday, 14 August, 2024
    Mpox
    WHO declares mpox public health emergency as cases surge in Africa

    Global health body calls for action to tackle ‘very worrying’ outbreak of highly transmissible virus

    Montage of various viruses
  • Monday, 29 July, 2024
    Ethiopia
    Ethiopia floats currency as it seeks to secure IMF deal

    Foreign exchange reform will remove market distortions but some analysts fear it will stoke inflation

    A vendor counts out Ethiopian birr banknotes at the Shola market in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
  • Friday, 26 July, 2024
    News in-depthKenya
    How a ‘bunch of nobodies’ left Kenya’s political class running scared

    Young and tech-savvy protesters drawn from traditionally divided tribes are forcing concessions from President Ruto

    Demonstrators march to parliament with wooden crosses
  • Monday, 15 July, 2024
    Rwanda
    Paul Kagame cements hold on Rwanda after election walkover

    Strongman president secures overwhelming victory after rival candidates were prevented from running

    Rwandan President Paul Kagame casting his vote
  • Thursday, 4 July, 2024
    African economy
    Kenya’s mass protests expose African fury with IMF

    William Ruto is latest president of developing country caught between multilateral lenders and angry population

    Protesters in Nakuru, Kenya. One holds a sign reading ‘IMF, World Bank, Modern Day Slavery’
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