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Antony Sguazzin
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Africa-focused journalist at Bloomberg News in Johannesburg. Opinions are my own.
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Antony Sguazzin @antonysguazzin.bsky.social · Oct 10
When a rhino-breeding dream collapsed, it set off a continent-spanning rescue plan. Now a multimillion-dollar mission is trying to move 2,000 white rhinos to safety across Africa.
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The European Union pledged €7 billion ($8.1 billion) toward boosting renewable-energy generation and increasing electricity access in Africa
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EU Pledges €7 Billion to Renewable Energy in Africa
The European Union pledged €7 billion ($8.1 billion) toward boosting renewable-energy generation and increasing electricity access in Africa.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Sun King, the world’s largest off-grid solar company, said it plans to raise $1.3 billion to give access to electricity to 200 million Africans by 2030
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Sun King Seeks $1.3 Billion to Bring Power to 200 Million People
Sun King, the world’s largest off-grid solar company, said it plans to raise $1.3 billion to give access to electricity to 200 million Africans by 2030.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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South Africa fired its environment minister during the COP climate summit in Brazil and downgraded its participation at a key international forum on wildlife trade
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South Africa’s Global Environment Clout Eroded by Political Spat
South Africa, a normally vocal presence in global climate and environment forums, has eroded its influence because of a political fight that led to the firing of its environment minister.
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November 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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The Congo Basin rainforest is under threat - podcast

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Next Africa: Congo Rainforest On The Brink - Bloomberg
A monthly deep dive into Africa's biggest stories through a Bloomberg lens.
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November 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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The surge in gold prices has seen a surge in illegal mining within Johannesburg's city limits. This neighborhood has been destroyed
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The Deadly Scrabble for Gold in Johannesburg’s Abandoned Mines
The soaring price of gold is fueling illegal mining that’s shredding parts of the landscape close to South Africa’s biggest city.
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November 14, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Exclusive talks between ArcelorMittal and South Africa's biggest development finance institution have ended without a deal for the steelmaker's local unit, throwing its future into limbo
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ArcelorMittal, IDC End Exclusive South Africa Talks With No Deal
ArcelorMittal SA’s exclusive talks with South Africa’s biggest development-finance institution regarding its potential sale of its local steel operation have ended without a deal, leaving the company ...
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November 11, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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The Congo Basin is the world's biggest tropical carbon sink. There may only be a decade to save it.
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The World Has a Decade to Save the Biggest Tropical Carbon Sink
The Congo Basin, a region of tropical forest larger than India, is at a point where further damage may rob the world of a crucial bulwark against climate change.
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November 10, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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South Africa has won a $925 million loan from the World Bank to help it incentivize municipalities to run the cities they manage better
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South Africa Wins $925 Million World Bank Loan for Ailing Cities
The World Bank approved a $925 million loan for South Africa to support a six-year program costing three times that amount, as the country seeks to revive its major cities.
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November 10, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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A lawyer turned property developer has been reclaiming parts of Johannesburg’s old central business district from slumlords, making it safe, clean and functional — all at a profit.
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Meet the Man Reviving Downtown Johannesburg One Building at a Time
Gerald Olitzki is widely regarded as the leading private investor in urban renewal locally.
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November 6, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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South Africa’s President Ramaphosa ordered a probe into how its citizens were recruited to fight as mercenaries in Russia’s war against Ukraine
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South Africa Probes How Citizens Ended Up Fighting in Ukraine
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa ordered a probe into how its citizens were recruited to fight as mercenaries in Russia’s war against Ukraine.
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November 6, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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Hit men are increasingly targeting South African lawyers and other professionals who are trying to tackle corruption
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Murder by Appointment: South African Lawyers Face Assassination
Hit men target professionals who are trying to tackle graft
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October 20, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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@systemnotbroken.bsky.social Some of the world's biggest conservation nonprofits are considering a range of financial mechanisms to preserve biodiversity in South Africa including a bond to fund clearance of invasive vegetation near Cape Town

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Invasive Plants Bond, Biodiversity Fund Mulled for South Africa
Some of the world’s leading conservation nonprofits are exploring a bond tied to the rate of clearing invasive vegetation and a sustainable fund to protect more of South Africa’s wild areas.
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October 16, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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Colossal Biosciences, a $10 billion biotech, says, working with a group of scientists, it could create a new northern white rhino within four years www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
A $10 Billion Biotech Sets Four-Year Target for Creating a Rhino
A biotech valued at $10 billion and scientists from around the world aim to apply gene editing and use a surrogate mother to begin bringing back the northern white rhino from the brink of extinction w...
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October 15, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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ArcelorMittal's head of M&A has travelled to South Africa in a bid to conclude a deal for the sale of the company's local unit to the IDC
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ArcelorMittal M&A Head Holds Talks in South Africa Over Unit Sale
ArcelorMittal SA’s head of mergers and acquisitions, Ondra Otradovec, is holding talks in South Africa with the nation’s top development-finance institution and trade department about the sale of the ...
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October 14, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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The EU has pledged $13.3 billion in investment in South African sustainable energy projects, transport and health sectors
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EU Pledges €11.5 Billion to Fund South African Energy, Transport
The European Union has pledged €11.5 billion ($13.3 billion) in investment in South African sustainable energy projects, transport and health sectors.
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October 10, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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South African-made sensors have shown up in Russian suicide drones used to attack Ukraine. The country wants to know how that happened.
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October 10, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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When a rhino-breeding dream collapsed, it set off a continent-spanning rescue plan. Now a multimillion-dollar mission is trying to move 2,000 white rhinos to safety across Africa.
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October 10, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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A fund for off-grid electricity projects, with a target of $500 million, plans to start disbursing money in Congo early next year www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Congo’s Planned $500 Million Off-Grid Fund to Start Disbursing
The World Bank-backed Mwinda Fund, which could become Africa’s second-largest financial facility for off-grid power projects, expects to start disbursing money in the Democratic Republic of Congo in t...
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October 10, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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Afrikaners are thriving in South Africa despite US President Donald Trump's false assertion that they are being subjected to genocide
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Afrikaners Are Doing Fine, Despite What Trump Says
Welcome to Next Africa, a twice-weekly newsletter on where the continent stands now — and where it’s headed. Sign up here to have it delivered to your email.Donald Trump’s assertion that White Afrikan...
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October 8, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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Chad has stripped wildlife nonprofit African Parks of the right to manage two of its conservation areas including one partly funded by billionaire Rob Walton
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Chad Ends Elephant Rescue Effort With Buffett-Backed Nonprofit
Chad has ended its 15-year partnership over the management of key wildlife reserves with conservation nonprofit African Parks, which drew funding for the project from the Rob Walton Foundation and age...
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October 7, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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Donald Trump says Afrikaners subject to a genocide. Yet within view of the seat of South African government they celebrated the birthday of an apartheid icon and displayed memorabilia celebrating white rule.
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A Celebration of an Afrikaner Icon Belies Trump’s Genocide Claim
Afrikaners rank among wealthiest South Africans, hold top posts.
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October 7, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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South Africa is on a campaign to downgrade its relationship with Taiwan in a sign of how the chip hub is increasingly being squeezed on the global stage www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Chinese Pressure Shreds Taiwan’s Relationship With South Africa
Just months after Oliver Liao arrived in Pretoria as Taiwan’s de facto ambassador, South Africa began a campaign to downgrade its relationship with the island — thrusting him into the epicenter of a g...
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October 6, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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ArcelorMittal may get a bid of about $490 million for its struggling South African unit from a group led by the state-owned Industrial Development Corp.
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ArcelorMittal May Get $491 Million IDC Bid for South Africa Unit
South Africa’s top development finance institution is working with financial advisers on a possible bid of about 8.5 billion rand ($491 million) for control of ArcelorMittal SA’s business in the count...
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September 29, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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outh Africa will press ahead with changes to its credit laws to make lending to smaller firms easier after earlier withdrawing the regulations
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South Africa Relents to Banks’ Call for Credit-Law Changes
South Africa will press ahead with changes to its credit laws to make lending to smaller firms easier, heeding a call by the top banking lobby group that had criticized the government’s withdrawal of ...
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September 26, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Business leaders in South Africa say a partnership with government avoided a potential economic collapse
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Business Leaders Says Partnership Avoided South Africa’s Failure
Leaders from some of South Africa’s biggest companies said a partnership with the country’s government has helped the economy avoid “potential failure.”
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September 26, 2025 at 5:34 AM