David Pilling

Pravin Gordhan, who joined the anti-apartheid movement in the 1970s before rising to the top levels of South Africa’s democratically elected government, died on Friday morning after a short battle with cancer at the age of 75. Until June, he […]

A plain cotton T-shirt is a pretty ordinary item of clothing. But for Benin, a sliver of a country on the west coast of Africa with little manufacturing tradition, it is intended to be the start of an industrial revolution.