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...
AFRICA
The Business of “I Do”: How Africa’s Wedding Economy Is Becoming an Investment Ecosystem
The African wedding is still emotional, cultural and deeply personal. But behind the music, flowers,...
AFRICA
The United Nations Is Proposing the Biggest Change to Economic Measurement Since World War II. Africa's Most Valuable Assets Are Precisely the Ones GDP Has Always Ignored.
The United Nations has proposed replacing GDP as the primary development indicator with a 31-indicat...
AFRICA
The Economics of African Borders: How Delays, Fees and Informality Are Giving Way to a New Era of Regional Trade
Africa’s borders were inherited as lines of separation. The next generation of integration is turn...
AFRICA
Aliko Dangote Has Named the Ten Most Promising African Countries for Investment. Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, and Ethiopia Made the List.
In a podcast conversation with Nicolai Tangen of Norges Bank Investment Management, Aliko Dangote na...
AFRICA
America Warns Africa About China While Its Billionaires Fly to Beijing. Africa Should Study That Contradiction, Not the Rhetoric.
On 13 May 2026, Donald Trump arrived in Beijing for a state visit accompanied by more than a dozen o...
AFRICA
What Do Big Economies See in Africa That Africa Itself Cannot Fathom?
Africa has become the world’s most courted underpriced asset. The United States sees critical mine...
AFRICA
Africa’s Government Pay Divide: Where Public Servants Earn Well
A government job can offer very different rewards across Africa. In South Africa, an advertised prof...
AFRICA
Ethiopia Is Building Three More Dams on the Blue Nile. Egypt Can't Stop It This Time Either.
Ethiopia's Water and Energy Ministry has revived plans for three more hydropower projects on the Blu...
AFRICA
How Africa's 10 Biggest Economies Got There, and Why That's a Different Question From Who's Developing Best
The IMF's April 2026 World Economic Outlook puts Africa's ten largest economies by nominal GDP at So...
AFRICA
After 14 Years, Air Zimbabwe's Harare-London Route Returns as an Economic Bet
Air Zimbabwe resumes direct flights between Harare and London Gatwick on Wednesday, 22 July 2026, en...
AFRICA
South Africa Commits to 5.2 GW of New Nuclear Capacity. Koeberg Just Had Three Radiation Scares in Three Weeks.
Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, South Africa's Minister of Electricity and Energy, told a media briefing i...