Africa.Table – Edition 298

Presidential Elections: Benin to choose between continuity and new beginning + DR Congo opens first state-owned gold refinery

• Talk of the Town: Presidential elections in Benin – Between continuity and a new beginning
• DR Congo: Why the government wants to gain control over the gold sector
• Development funding: Record cuts in 2025
• Iran War: World Bank lowers growth forecast for Sub-Saharan Africa to 4.1%
• Executive Moves: Kathrin Blaufuss to become co-head of IKI
• Documents: World Bank Nigeria development update
• Must Reads: UAE to build military base for Israel and the US in Somaliland
• Opinion: WTO Ministerial Conference offers African countries a way out of the deadlock
• Dessert: Margaret Courtney-Clarke’s “Geographies of Drought”