As Ethiopia gears up for its full participation in the BRICS alliance in 2025, the nation is strategically positioning itself...
Nuclear energy presents itself as a consistent, low-carbon option for power generation, occupying less space compared to alternative clean energy ventures. However, the persisting challenge lies...
By Caroline Kimeu When Ugandans Maureen Agena and Edward Echwalu arrived at the Lesotho border during their five-month road trip across east and southern Africa, the...
By Dimitri Zabelin In the coming decades, Africa will become a pivotal player in international affairs. A confluence of the continent’s abundance of strategic resources, favorable...
New commercial and high-end condominiums are rising from the dirt, the minimum wage is going up, unemployment is the lowest it’s been in years and tourism...
By Håvar Bauck The Exchange Africa | The Trans-African Highway network, a bold blueprint conceived to foster economic integration on the African continent, has been a...
Bloomberg | Of all the countries in sub-Saharan Africa to be optimistic about, the most promising is Kenya. Economic and political forces are converging to put...
Bloomberg | Nigeria’s new president, Bola Tinubu, has delighted investors with decisions he’s taken in just two weeks in office. The question now is whether he...
By Nnaemeka Vincent Emodi Nigeria’s new Dangote petroleum refinery is Africa’s biggest – it will produce 650,000 barrels a day, giving it the potential to address...
By Kristine Liao It’s become unbearably clear that climate change is here and it’s happening right now. Just a quick scroll through your news feed and...
Having emerged in recent years as a leading voice in the developing world’s push for climate finance, Mia Mottley, the prime minister of Barbados, renewed her...
In the inaugural release of a report dubbed ‘Africa’s Macroeconomic Performance and Outlook’ released on January 19, the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group reported that “growth...
By Ishioma Emi International lenders such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have issued warnings of a potential global recession. This situation...
By Victor Dixon Not many years ago many Guyanese were fleeing this small Caribbean nation on the northern tip of South America with the mantra “anywhere...
From activists to athletes, authors, and entrepreneurs - SHIFTER is proud to present its second annual list of 20 Outstanding Black Men in Canada for 2022.
By Chinedu Okafor The current Tanzanian president, since assuming power has made it her mission to enrich and empower the people of Tanzania. This is evident...
CARICOM Heads of Government express their deep concern over the "deteriorating political situation and the deepening public anxiety over citizen security in Haiti"
HBCUs have consistently enrolled more black women than men every year since 1976. As of 2018, those women comprise 62 percent of students.
By Elizabeth Morgan As we enter 2021 and begin to reflect on the upcoming foreign trade policy agenda, 2020 has made it clear that there is...
Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander was the first African American to earn a PhD in the subject
A repository of real-time information on current trade negotiations is needed to track the rules that shape development outcomes in Africa, writes David Luke — Trade...
By Francis Mangeni, Stephen Lande, and Dennis Matanda A Growth Engine for the Next Fifty Years Even though a particularly disruptive global pandemic has had a...
By Francis Mangeni In this fourth and final part, we provide a series of responses, starting with the bane of regional integration in Africa. The Bane...
By Francis Mangeni In this third of a four-part article, I focus on the typology of Africa’s regional integration. Typology of African Regional Integration The ultimate...
Adjaye stands among the most acclaimed architects working today and has become a go-to man for monuments and museums, including a planned Holocaust memorial by the...
The Caribbean certainly has the potential to be a notable player in the evolution of Central bank digital currency.
Mobile payments could provide access to many new products and services, including energy as a service and health care as a service, high-quality education, and even...
If Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala gets the nod, she will also be the first Nigerian - and first African - to lead the WTO
Joe Myers World Economic Forum For World Environment Day on 5 June, the Ethiopian government announced plans to plant 5 billion seedlings during this year’s rainy...
Reparations should come in the form of wealth-building opportunities that address racial disparities in education, housing, and business ownership.
By Andrew Harding BBC | One week into South Africa’s nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19), and it is tempting – dangerously tempting...
By Kate Whiting To the west of the Nigerian capital Abuja, the grey monolith of Zuma Rock towers above the cars on the motorway below. One...
By Dennis Matanda Editor-in-Chief, The Habari Network A quandary currently engulfs us: how do you deal with a situation where there are just not enough advocates...
By Dennis Matanda Editor-in-Chief, The Habari Network It Started with a Car Gaetano Fettucci is quite striking; complete with well-coiffed silver hair and a day-old beard....