Kinley Salmon

Nov 19, 2024 | economist.com | Kinley Salmon

The struggle over migration in Latin America will deepen in 2025By Kinley Salmon, Latin America correspondent, The EconomistAs 2025 begins, migration in Latin America remains as politically fraught and physically dangerous as ever. The pressure to migrate was highlighted in July when Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s president, stole the election and cracked down on protesters. Now Donald Trump’s victory brings the prospect of mass deportations and crackdowns at the Rio Grande.

Sep 24, 2024 | economist.com | Kinley Salmon |Robert Guest

The graffiti are still visible. Walls shout: “Death to the police!” Bus shelters demand: “No more private pensions!” Yet the occasionally violent social upheaval that rocked Chile from 2019 to 2022 is past. And the radical left-wing movement it propelled to power is now unpopular, having discovered that governing is harder than protesting.

Feb 7, 2024 | economist.com | Kinley Salmon

About 70% of buildings needed in Africa by 2040 are not yet builtShiny cars line the streets of Ngor, a suburb of Dakar. Beside the occasional passing sheep are telltale signs of wealth—ice cream shops and gyms—that should be enticing to banks offering mortgages. Yet loans are hard to come by. Sam Thianar and his family live in two rooms of the apartment block he is building. The rest he hopes to rent out. Although construction started years ago, the building is a mess of concrete and exposed wires.

Nov 13, 2023 | economist.com | Kinley Salmon

The World Ahead | Africa in 2024Things are getting worse in the world’s most conflict-hit regionBy Kinley SalmonListen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android. Your browser does not support the <audio> element. Draw an arc across Africa south of the Sahara, and it passes through not just a belt of junta-run countries but the most conflict-ridden region in the world.

Aug 12, 2023 | insidebusiness.ng | Kinley Salmon |Robert Guest

Agadez is lawless in other ways, too, as Mimi well understands. She is a woman in her 20s from Nigeria, the vast country south of Niger. Three years ago she and her three sisters were trafficked into sexual slavery. Now Mimi is a whistleblower in Agadez. The city was for centuries a hub of the caravan trade across the Sahara; recently it has become better known as a staging post for African migrants heading for Europe.