There used to be 14 head-on collisions and two deaths on San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge every year. In 2015, the authorities installed a central barrier and traffic deaths fell to zero. Why not install a median barrier on all […]
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Fintech myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Nubank, the world’s biggest digital bank by market value, is planning to invest $150mn in Tyme Group, valuing the neobank launched
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The politician waiting in a little nook of the higgledy-piggledy restaurant, a former fisherman’s cottage on the Atlantic coast just north of Cape Town, is known as South Africa’s “Iron Lady”. But the outfit Helen Zille is wearing, a flowery
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The sole caretaker of the pyramids at Meroë, a former capital of the ancient Kingdom of Kush, is the only person standing between some of Sudan’s greatest art treasures and rampaging armies accused of looting priceless antiquities from museums across
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu has summoned Aliko Dangote to an emergency meeting with oil industry officials and regulators on Tuesday
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Senegal’s review of oil and gas contracts could threaten the country’s reputation as a reliable place to do business in a volatile region, critics have warned. The new administration led by President Bassirou Diomaye Faye, who won a landslide victory
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The assassination in Mozambique this weekend of the legal adviser to the opposition leader Venâncio Mondlane has raised further questions
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Even in the off-season there are 450 immaculately turned out members of staff at the Royal Mansour on Morocco’s Mediterranean coast. They pander to the needs of the guests housed in just 55 suites and villas and wear, by my
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Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa’s president, used his speech at the UN General Assembly last month to brand the Government of National Unity his country’s “second miracle”, marking a growing bullishness that the unlikely coalition will hold. It was quite a
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Tito Mboweni, who was South Africa’s first Black central bank governor after the end of apartheid, died on Saturday aged
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