Africa’s businesses can cross borders more easily than their money can. That contradiction has quietly imposed a price on trade across the continent for[…]

Ceuta sits on the North African coast, just 14 kilometres from Gibraltar across the Strait. Administered from Madrid but surrounded by Morocco on its[…]

The East African Community has set 2031 as the new date for a single regional currency. Central bank governors confirmed that target in Kampala[…]

Three years ago, Yakubu Danladi harvested cassava on his family’s plot in Endo, a farming town in Nasarawa State. Today he watches gauges in[…]

In July 2026, Namibia’s tourism sector achieved one of its strongest performances in recent years. National room occupancy reached 62.63%, according to the Hospitality[…]

For years, West Africa has been trying to solve an electricity problem that no country can realistically solve alone. About 8 per cent of[…]

In May 2013, during a session of the African Union Assembly in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, African leaders adopted a development blueprint to transform Africa[…]

The Indonesia Palm Oil Policy The newly adopted B50 biodiesel policy in Indonesia increases the requirement for the country’s diesel to contain 50 percent[…]

Aliko Dangote is betting billions on a refinery that could change the way Africa’s fuel business works. The Nigerian billionaire’s Dangote Industries has unveiled[…]

When powerful countries find it increasingly difficult to move money through established international financial channels, they often look for another route. That is the[…]

Before copper or cobalt becomes part of a battery, a car, or another finished product, someone must bring it out of the ground. In[…]

It is the famous poem by Ethiopia’s Poet Laureate, Tsegaye Gebre-Medhin, that has lately come to represent the ideals of the Nile. In the[…]

For countless generations, African cultivators have meticulously chosen, preserved, re-sown, and traded planting materials from their own harvests with their communities, adapting these varieties[…]

The Democratic Republic of Congo has taken a strong stand on its most important exports. On June 29, 2026, the government issued an order[…]

Terra Industries, an African defence-tech firm, is expanding its manufacturing footprint as demand for homegrown security solutions grows across the continent. With $52 million[…]

South Africa’s unemployment rate rose to 33.6% in the second quarter of 2026, up from 32.7% in the first three months of the year.[…]

When Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary for Education, Julius Ogamba, appeared before the National Assembly on 16 July 2026, he admitted that the government owed public[…]

According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Africa is home to some of the world’s fastest-growing economies. Yet it remains the most expensive region[…]

Despite Kenya commanding some of the highest coffee prices in the world, most of the country’s smallholder farmers still struggle to make ends meet.[…]

Across East Africa, countries are engaged in a new race – building modern airports. One of the most ambitious projects is in Ethiopia, where[…]