Demography, finance, GDP: Africa24 is born, the Il Sole 24 Ore newsletter to tell you about the Continent in the plural

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Over 50 countries, a population doubling to 2.5 billion in 2050, a GDP rising at an incomparable pace and the prospects of a free trade area three times the size of Europe. But also a land, indeed, of lands of paradoxes between poverty and extreme riches, democratic development and coup revolutions, the anxieties of jiahadism and the international competition for the resources that abound in its bowels: from the already mature advance of China to the more vigorous of Russia and Turkey, from the break with the former European colonies to the search for dialogue with an increasingly wider range of partners. Africas, in the plural, are a continent increasingly at the heart of international balances, an unparalleled crossroads of interests, opportunities and risks. Africa24, the new fortnightly newsletter of Il Sole 24 Ore, will try to unravel the news that flows every day from the continent between economics, politics and finance, drawing on our online and paper newspaper and Il Secolo Africano: the 24+ section that has been telling you regarding the scenarios of continental economies since 2019. Sign up here.

Each edition will contain an appointment with the salient events of the last few days, a comment on the facts that have most struck us from the continent and a story (or an idea) that we want to point out to you to read regarding Africa beyond the news. The contents come from the daily flow of news on government maneuvers, elections, financial operations such as bond fever south of the Sahara and the macro-challenges that await the continent: the growth and sustainability of the debt that finances it, the climate emergency, the insecurity spreading from the Sahel to Mozambique, or even the boundless potential of a market that is moving towards integration with the African continental free trade area and is attempting to revitalize private individuals and external investors. Our newsletter will tell you regarding Africa and will sometimes come from Africa, including field reports and coverage of the major events that characterize the continental agenda. The ambition is to push the legacies of Africa today as a sort of homogeneous block, at the mercy of external winds and appetites: an Africa in the plural, as vast as its possibilities.