By Mark-Anthony Johnson Africa stands at an inflection point. For decades, the continent’s economies have been locked into a colonial-era pattern – exporting raw commodities to...
By Mark-Anthony Johnson The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) was supposed to revolutionize African commerce. Five years after trading officially commenced, the world’s largest free...
By Lance Chisue The just-released Where to Invest in Africa 2025/26 report from Rand Merchant Bank analyzes 31 key economies covering approximately 90 percent of Africa’s...
By Des H Rikhotso As major economies decelerate, the continent’s structural transformation is rewriting the global growth narrative. The latest International Monetary Fund (IMF) projections reveal...
By Endre Vestvik Extraordinary times demand extraordinary thinking. Over the past few weeks, the President of the United States has openly entertained the notion of pressuring...
By Danilo Desiderio The continent’s ambitious free trade agreement promises to reshape economic integration – but a tangled web of customs unions and political fractures threatens...
By Ziad Hamoui Every year, somewhere between US$10 billion and US$24 billion worth of goods crosses African borders in what the United Nations Economic Commission for...
By Danilo Desiderio Five years into the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), the gap between promise and delivery threatens to undermine the continent’s boldest economic...
By Danilo Desiderio When the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) officially launched in 2019, it was hailed as the most ambitious economic project on the...
By Davida Ademuyiwa In little more than half a century, Dubai transformed from a quiet desert emirate into one of the world’s most dynamic global hubs...
