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Ayesha Patel

Ayesha Patel is the Africa Editor and covers the continent and South Africa's place in it, from the borders to the trade deals to the neighbours' politics.

Earlier from Ayesha Patel

Africa

Uganda's export earnings jump 36% as gold shipments surge

Africa

Fifty African blockchain startups pitch investors in Nairobi as regulators talk digital trade rules

Africa

Brazil's influencer right is one election away from the presidency

Africa

IMF lifts 2026 growth forecast for sub-Saharan Africa to 4.5% but warns inflation is climbing again

Africa

Brazil's Catholic pilgrims walk 240km as election fight splits the vote

Africa

US pulls all its anti-fraud immigration officers to screen South Africans

Africa

The US refugee door in 2026: 10,258 places, all but three filled by white South Africans

Africa

All US anti-fraud immigration officers moved to screen South African refugees

Africa

Morocco puts $37m behind venture capital funds in startup push

Africa

Senong and Letsholonyane open unbeaten at FC Platinum with four clean sheets

Africa

Philippines school shooting kills three as police trace a plan made weeks earlier

Africa

Polling stations open in Russia's Far East as Duma vote begins

Africa

Mosimane names Bafana squad for Guinea and Eritrea qualifiers

Africa

Egypt's Bekia raises $765,000 to digitise Cairo's cash-only recycling trade

Africa

Obasanjo says Nigeria's support brought apartheid to an earlier end

Africa

Ramaphosa proposes BRICS body to audit AI at New Delhi summit

Africa

WHO sends R2,5m in outbreak-detection equipment to Lesotho

RESEARCH SHOWS Africa

Kenya's migrant crackdowns rarely attract that label, and the record shows why

RESEARCH SHOWS Africa

Same unrest, two lenses: how Al Jazeera and DW report South Africa and their own backyards

Ayesha Patel files to the Africa section. The other editors are in The Editors' Room.