REGIONAL MARKETS
Regionalisation as a Means of Managing Global Economic Risks
Global economic shocks increasingly travel through energy, food, finance, shipping, technology and s...
RWANDA
Dangote Refinery IPO Puts Rwanda’s Financial Hub Ambitions to the Test
The launch of the Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals initial public offering on September...
RWANDA
Rwanda’s B+ Rating: The Institutional Capital Behind Its Growth
A sovereign credit rating is, at its core, an institutional judgment about the probability that a st...
AFRICA
Konkola’s Copper Expansion Shows Zambia’s Next Mining Bottleneck Is Power
If Zambia can build enough reliable generation and transmission to support Konkola and the wider Cop...
REGIONAL MARKETS
Kenya Needs 540,000 Tonnes of Maize. Why Is Zambia Supplying It Instead of Tanzania?
Kenya needs to import millions of bags of maize, yet a major 540,000 tonne contract has gone to Zamb...
RWANDA
Rwanda's Intelligence Layer: How the State Is Turning Agricultural Data Into a National Development Instrument
Rwanda's agricultural sector has never been merely a line item in the national accounts. It is the s...
EAST AFRICA
Kenya Approves $1 Billion Port PPP Plan for Mombasa and Lamu
Kenya's Public-Private Partnership Committee approved feasibility studies for four port assets in Mo...
RWANDA
Inside RSSB's Triple Acquisition: How Rwanda's Pension Fund Is Rebuilding the Architecture of Domestic Capital
Between late August and early September 2026, the Rwanda Social Security Board executed three transa...
RWANDA
Rwanda's Tungsten Rise: How the World's 7th-Largest Producer Is Gaining Strategic Leverage
The global tungsten market has, for more than two decades, functioned as a near-monopoly disguised a...
RWANDA
What a Rwandan Equity Stake in the Dangote Lamu Refinery Signals About Kigali's Energy Sovereignty Strategy
Rwanda's evaluation of an equity stake in the Dangote Group's proposed refinery at Lamu, Kenya, is n...
RWANDA
The Billion-Dollar Harvest: How Rwanda Engineered Its Way Past $1B in Agricultural Exports, and What the 24.3% Leap Reveals About State Capacity, Logistics Power, and the New Economics of Trust
Rwanda's announcement that agricultural exports generated $1.1 billion in the fiscal year spanning J...
RWANDA
Rwanda Paid a Price the Rest of Africa Wouldn't. That's Why It's the One Country Actually Building a Textile Industry.
Rwanda raised tariffs on secondhand clothing from $0.20 to $4 per kilogram between 2016 and 2018, ho...