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1. Ethiopia: Ethiopia - Turning Growth into Lasting Prosperity

   [allAfrica] The country has proved that economic momentum is possible. Its harder task is to make growth survive conflict--and turn people, farms and renewable power into jobs, exports and a more durable prosperity.

2. Nigeria: Nigeria Has the Scale of a Power. It Still Needs the Economy of One

   [allAfrica] Africa's most populous country has the market, energy and entrepreneurial talent of a global power. What it still lacks is the productive machinery that can make scale work for its citizens.

3. Egypt: Egypt's Next Economy Lies Beyond the Suez Canal

   [allAfrica] For centuries, Egypt's power has flowed from the Nile and its position between continents. In the twenty-first century, the question is whether geography can become industry--and strategic relevance become broadly shared prosperity.

4. Kenya: Better Prices Lure Kitui Farmers Back to Cotton - If Seed, Rain and Young Farmers Follow

   [allAfrica] The landscape changes as the road winds into Kitui County.

5. South Sudan: Kiir Dissolves Government Ahead of December 22 Elections

   [Agenzia Fides] Juba -- South Sudan is heading toward elections scheduled for December 22 after President Salva Kiir, on September 22, dissolved the Transitional Government of National Unity and appointed an interim executive. The move brings to an end the power-sharing arrangement established under the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in South Sudan (R-ARCSS), signed in 2018 to end the civil war that broke out in 2013.