Rachel Savage
@rachelmsavage
@Reuters Africa Senior Markets Correspondent | Past: LGBT+ news @Openly @TRF_Stories, @TheEconomist Lagos & Nairobi | @NLGJA Journalist of the Year 2021 🏳️🌈
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https://www.reuters.com/journalists/rachel-savage 26-09-2011 20:31:15
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'We gave our blessing for him to move to Johannesburg to escape the violence and gangs back home, only (for him) to meet his demise at the peak of his promising football career.'
Moving Nellie Peyton story about Luke Fleurs' murder & crime in South Africa reuters.com/world/africa/s…
Great piece by Libby George on what next for Zambia (and Sri Lanka and Ghana) after its bondholder deal reuters.com/world/africa/d…
Since 2020, Stuart Potts has housed hundreds of homeless people in his own one-bed flat. I’ve been spending time there over the last few months. My latest for The Guardian Long Read theguardian.com/society/2024/a…
The Independent Our first winner was Rachel Savage who wrote about the frozen north of Canada:
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JOHANNESBURG/WASHINGTON, April 19 (Reuters) - Incomes in Sub-Saharan Africa are falling further behind the rest of the world amid a 'tepid' economic recovery, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Friday.
Story by Rachel Savage
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Great story by James Oatway, ThandoHlophe and Nellie Peyton, a microcosm of South Africa and what is at stake in this election
Is there a major Zambian copper mine that this new Emirati player doesn't have its eyes on? Scoop from Felix Njini
Development agencies are finding it increasingly hard to persuade wealthy countries worried about wars abroad and elections at home to stump up more cash for the world's poorest.
This chart in Libby George & Karin Strohecker's story is striking
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I see the Global Sovereign Debt Roundtable has been taking note of Jorgelina do Rosario's work on the delays for countries in debt restructuring negotiations in getting IMF money 👀reuters.com/business/finan…
“Anybody that is not worried about Jacob Zuma has not been paying attention.” The excellent Monica Mark coverage of South Africa's election continues, on one of its big unknowns - how far will the MK Party be the “wrecking ball”? ft.com/content/5396ae…