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Cover story: Housing the next 1bn

Business Intelligence 4 News and deals around Africa

Opinion 10 Paris summit boosts calls for global financial reform

Cover story: Housing Africa 12 Developers seek to scale solutions to the housing crisis

Features 22 Interview: Ghana’s VP

Mahamudu Bawumia places education and digitalisation at the heart of his policy 42 Interview: Zimbabwean multi-

millionaire Nyasha Gwatidzo is changing lives in the UK 46 Interview: Old Mutual’s Clement

Chinka tells of tweaking traditional strengths as the insurance market changes 50 Interview: Uganda Development bank MD Patricia Ojangole on steering a long and thorny path to success 54 Could privatising the Suez Canal be key to Egypt’s cash crisis? 70 Kenya aims to drive climate finance conversation 72 Africa joins the race to 5G

mobile connectivit y 74 Can Africa achieve ‘digital s o v e r e i g n t y ’?

Special report: Singapore & Africa 28 Africa push begins to bear fruit 30 Tech firms set sights on Africa 32 Monitoring a farm in Africa from an office in Singapore 36 Singaporean firm applies itself to Africa’s home market 40 The South African bank using

Singapore to expand in Asia

Special report: Future of agriculture 59 African agriculture looks to the future amid shortages 62 Can AI address Africa’s agricultural trade deficit? 64 Farmers seek scarce capital 66 Opinion: Food processing is an economic opportunity 68 Interview: Africa must produce food locally: Sanne Steemers of AFEX commodities exchange

Countryfiles 84 Sall’s exit announcement sparks uncertainty in Senegal 86 Human rights designation could bring Ethiopia in from the cold

Review 88 How freedom was saved in

South Africa

Editor’s view 90 Russia-Africa relations will not prosper while war drags on