The African tech startup ecosystem experienced a notable decline in total investment in 2023, with a 27.8 percent decrease to reach US$2.4 billion. This decline was...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu After decades of severe drought and concomitant famine and socio-economic challenges in the Horn of Africa, the Intergovernmental Authority on Drought and...
By Gregory Simpkins There has been significant discussion over the past year about replacing the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency. The dollar has held...
It is noteworthy that Aliko Dangote, the founder and CEO of the Dangote Group, has experienced a substantial increase in his net worth according to Bloomberg’s...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Agriculture life in Africa has been around for millennia after communities in the continent transitioned from hunter-gatherer status to crop growing and...
The Children in Freedom School in Nakuru, Kenya, takes pride in its Afrocentric approach to education, emphasizing the greatness inherent in every African child. This approach...
By Paul Nantulya and Leland Lazarus 2024 is a pivotal year for China and the Global South. China continues to make an active diplomatic push for...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Months after 9/11 attacks against the United States, Masai pastoralists in Kenya had not heard about the tragedy. When they did, they...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Last week the Constitutional Court of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) validated the re-election of Felix Tshisekedi. For an election...
Reuters | In a world grappling with climate change and the search for sustainable energy solutions, Enock Gnaga hopes his company Benin Biogas’s complete waste-to-energy cycle...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu One of the major impediments to the search for peace in a conflict situation is when there are better alternatives to negotiated...
Former South African president Jacob Zuma cannot be the president of the country after this year’s general elections because of his criminal record. This was clarified...
Reuters | Tanzania said on Tuesday it had reinstated approval for Kenyan national carrier Kenya Airways to operate flights between the Kenyan capital Nairobi and Tanzania’s...
Reuters | Tanzania has withdrawn approval for Kenyan national carrier Kenya Airways to operate flights between the Kenyan capital Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s commercial...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu When Kenya gained independence in December 1963, its neighbors Tanzania and Uganda were already independent. Also, even though Jomo Kenyatta was a...
By Gregory Simpkins It is said that necessity is the mother of invention but that desperate times call for desperate measures. Well Ethiopia has a desperate...
Reuters | Nigeria’s Dangote oil refinery has begun producing diesel and aviation fuel, the company said on Saturday, after years of construction delays at the 650,000...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu The Hellenistic civilization that emerged from southeast Europe greatly influenced North Africa. The Roman empire and other political establishments in East Asia...
AFP | DR Congo’s Constitutional Court on Tuesday confirmed President Felix Tshisekedi’s landslide victory in a December election for a second term in the mineral-rich massive...
By Christopher Adam Why are African countries exposed in the international currency market? Three main reasons. First, African economies are small and as such are highly...
Bloomberg | Africa faces economic headwinds this year, but some of the continent’s brightest sparks are shading it in a more hopeful light. Six of the...
By Gregory Simpkins I have been blessed to be a part of some important developments involving African issues: the creation and extension of the African Growth...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu On the last day of December 2023 Felix Tshisekedi, the incumbent president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo), was the...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu In the 1950s and 60s Egypt represented the revolutionary elements in the Islamic world, especially the Middle East. The charismatic Gamal Abdel...
ANGOP | The first gold refinery in Angola, which is being built in the Viana Industrial Park in the country’s capital Luanda, will be completed later...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Last year – 2023 – was a busy one for Africa as far as elections were concerned. Multiple states in different geopolitical...
Reuters | Landlocked Ethiopia signed an initial agreement with Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland on Monday to use its Red Sea port of Berbera, Prime Minister...
AFP | Succes Masra, president of The Transformers party, was a long-time opponent of the Deby dynasty but returned to Chad in November after reaching an...
By Gregory Simpkins Since I was a young boy, Africa has fascinated me. Some of my early friends were from Liberia, and I grew up feeling...
AP | Democratic Republic of Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi won reelection with more than 70 percent of the vote, the country’s election commission said Sunday. The...
Bloomberg | Nigeria-based Riverside LNG said it’s in talks to supply gas to South Africa, in what would be the first such deal between the two...
Bloomberg | Former Credit Suisse chief Tidjane Thiam has won his bid to lead Ivory Coast’s opposition in presidential elections scheduled for 2025. Results of a...
By Gregory Simpkins In December 2022, the Biden Administration convened a summit with African governmental leaders, as well as African and American businesspeople and civil society...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu In 1980, Senegal’s first president, Léopold Senghor, voluntarily stepped down from power and handed over office to his prime minister, Abdou Diouf....
Press Release | Central Africa holds some of Africa’s leading frontier markets for hydrocarbon exploration, featuring underexplored acreage, coupled with substantial proven oil and gas reserves....
By Fidel Amakye Owusu At the dawn of independence in Anglophone West Africa, the different states had to decide on the political systems they wanted. While...
Bloomberg | Angola announced it’s leaving OPEC following 16 years of membership amid a dispute over oil production quotas, while the cartel tries to buoy global...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Right after the independence of many African states, the idea of development and the approach to it, took center stage in their...
Bloomberg | Nigeria is introducing incentives to attract oil and gas investment as Africa’s biggest economy works to ramp up crude output. The measures include substituting...
By NJ Ayuk To meet their green agendas, the European Union, the US and China are engaged in the modern-day equivalent of a gold rush. This...
Reuters | COVID-19 vaccine maker BioNTech aims to start production at its mRNA vaccine factory site in Rwanda in 2025, company officials said on Monday, the...
Reuters | Tanzania’s economy is expected to grow by about 5.5 percent in 2024, up from about 5 percent in 2023, but it faces risks from...
By Lauren Johnston In a year when headlines have been dominated by conflict in Europe and the Middle East, and geo-economic tensions between China and the...
By Gregory Simpkins December 10th is commemorated as Human Rights Day in honor of the proclamation of the Universal Declaration Of Human Rights by the United...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu The map above depicts the expected growth rates of African states in 2023. Some estimates have adjusted these a bit upward due...
AFP | A Senegalese judge on Thursday ordered that jailed opposition leader Ousmane Sonko be reinstated on the electoral roll, clearing the way for him to...
Reuters | The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved over US$696 million in financing for a rail project to link Tanzania, Burundi and the Democratic Republic...
By Gregory Simpkins We live in a time of great upheaval worldwide, and according to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), there has never...
Reuters | The Dangote oil refinery in Nigeria on Friday received its first cargo of 1 million barrels of crude oil from Shell International Trading and...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu When violent extremists swept across northern Mali in 2011 and 2012, the governments in Bamako and Niamey were particularly concerned. Something needed...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu During COP 27 last year in Sharm El Sheikh, South Sinai, Egypt, the issue of compensation for developing countries suffering the consequences...
By Gregory Simpkins The African ‘coup train’ keeps on rolling with the latest coup attempt in Sierra Leone. This time, however, the coup was thwarted before...
AFP | After he won last month the nomination as Ghana’s ruling party presidential candidate in the 2024 election, Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia quickly made clear...
Bloomberg | Angola rejected a new output quota handed to it by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and said it planned to breach...
CNBC Africa | The President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has revealed plans to list the US$20 billion Dangote Petroleum Refinery on the Nigerian Exchange (NGX),...
AP | The Kenyan High Court on Tuesday struck out key clauses of a contentious finance law that has been blamed for significantly raising taxes and...
AFP | Conflict-weary Somalia was admitted on Friday into the East African Community (EAC) as the eighth member of the bloc as it seeks to expand...
By Gregory Simpkins Djibouti is viewed as a small country on the northeastern edge of the African continent. It is little known globally despite its advantageous...
AP | Congolese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Denis Mukwege kicked off his campaign for president in next month’s election on Saturday, promising to tackle corruption and...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu One of the major reasons experts give for intrastate conflicts in Africa is the fact that states in the continent did not...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu After Osama bin Laden attacked the United States in 2001, it was clear that the organization he led, al-Qaeda, was the deadliest...
Lagos-based Access Bank, one of Africa’s biggest banks, is close to finalizing a regulatory process to launch its first full banking service in Asia in the...
AFP | Burkina Faso’s junta-led government on Thursday launched the construction of the country’s first refinery for gold, Burkina’s main mineral resource, an AFP journalist said....
Bloomberg | Nigeria will seek to become a member of the BRICS group of nations within the next 2 years as part of a new foreign...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Last November, Ghanaian President, Nana Akufo-Addo, raised issues with a possible presence of The Wagner Group in Burkina Faso. He was concerned...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu In the 1950s, 60s and 70s, when many countries in West Africa faced political instability and concomitant economic decay, Liberia was one...
PRNewswire | Boeing and Ethiopian Airlines last week announced the carrier has agreed to order 11 787 Dreamliner and 20 737 MAX airplanes with an opportunity...
Reuters | Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) President Felix Tshisekedi launched his re-election bid on Sunday in a packed-to-capacity stadium in the capital Kinshasa, urging...
By Gregory Simpkins “The world is aflame in conflict.” How often do we hear some version of that? It is, of course, quite true, but the...
By Abeeb Babatunde Omotoso and Abiodun Olusola Omotayo Sub-Saharan African countries strongly rely on the agricultural and forestry sectors. Agriculture contributes up to 60 percent of...
AP | Liberian President George Weah conceded defeat late Friday after provisional results from this week’s runoff vote showed challenger Joseph Boakai beating him by just...
AFP | Kenya’s parliament on Thursday approved the proposed deployment of its police to lead a UN-backed multinational mission to Haiti to restore peace and security...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Days ago, I wrote that West Asian states in the Gulf could gain a strategic advantage in the current great power struggle...
AP | Liberian President George Weah faced a tight runoff election Tuesday as he seeks to defeat a repeat challenger and win a second term in...
By Gregory Simpkins Since its signing into law in 2000, the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) has been the main trade program for the United...
Bloomberg | Angolan President João Lourenço on Friday opened a long-delayed international airport outside the capital Luanda, with passenger flights scheduled to begin in early 2024....
By Fidel Amakye Owusu The geographical feature that partly separates Mozambique from Tanzania is the Rovuma River. Much of the almost a thousand-kilometre water body creates...
By Alan Hirsch President William Ruto of Kenya recently announced that Kenya’s borders would be open to visitors from the entirety of Africa, with no visas...
Press Release – APO | The Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS), a groundbreaking initiative developed by the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) to revolutionize cross-border payments...
Bloomberg | The full ramp up of Africa’s largest oil refinery, a landmark moment for crude and fuel markets both regionally and beyond, is still a...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Integration in Africa was one of the pressing topics in the 1950s and 1960s. At a point, disagreement over how to achieve...
By Victor Oluwole The Africa Development Bank (AfDB) has announced the launch of the Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zones Alliance (SAPZ), a groundbreaking project aimed at mobilizing...
AP | The Kenyan government announced Monday a surprise public holiday on November 13 for a nationwide tree planting day, part of its ambitious plan to...
St. Vincent & the Grenadines Prime Minister, Ralph Gonsalves says Africa and the Caribbean must join efforts in addressing ‘technological emancipation’ as well as reparations for...
By Gregory Simpkins I recently came across an intriguing headline in the New York Times: “The World Is Becoming More African.” The point being made is...
Reuters | Nigeria’s state oil firm NNPC Ltd will supply the new 650,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Dangote oil refinery with up to six cargoes of crude oil...
PR Newswire | Standard Chartered has today published its Future of Trade: Africa report, highlighting the outlook for African trade and providing a view of the...
AP | Rwanda announced Thursday that it will allow Africans to travel visa-free to the country, becoming the latest nation on the continent to announce such...
Bloomberg | There is no place like home for African governments shut out of global debt markets by crises that have made foreign borrowing too expensive....
By Paul Frimpong Over the last decades, China has been at the forefront of championing multiple global initiatives, including the Global Development Initiative (GDI), the Global...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu When conflict broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in April this year, it dominated...
AFP | Nigeria star Victor Osimhen is among 30 nominees named on Wednesday for the 2022-2023 men’s African Player of the Year award. The prolific Napoli...
By Joseph Rutakangwa The rapid evolution of the digital age has seen the world grow closer than ever before. An integral part of this story has...
Bloomberg | For all of COVID-19’s disruptions, one trend during the global pandemic presses on unabated. And that would be 5 of the world’s 10 fastest-growing...
Africanews | Kenyan President William Ruto has announced the impending removal of visa requirements for all African visitors by the end of this year. Speaking at...
By Gregory Simpkins It probably escaped the notice of most people that the International Criminal Court (ICC) in October 2023 declined to prosecute Maxime Mokom, a...
By Giza Mdoe The Exchange Africa | Green hydrogen, which is derived from a clean process of electrolyzation, has the potential to transform the energy landscape...
AP | Nigeria’s Supreme Court refused Thursday to void the recent election of President Bola Tinubu and dismissed the political opposition’s challenges, which argued that the...
AfDB | The International Energy Agency projects that manufacturers of clean energy technologies will need forty times more lithium, twenty-five times more graphite, and about twenty...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu In the 1950s, Ghana’s first prime minister and president, Kwame Nkrumah, was clear about what the newly independent state needed – a...
By Gregory Simpkins Investors, especially American investors, are overly cautious in terms of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Africa. They require extra assurance of the viability...
Reuters | Ghana’s government has approved its first lithium mine run by a subsidiary of Australia-based Atlantic Lithium Limited, the West African country said on Thursday,...
AP | Liberia’s presidential election Wednesday appeared headed for a run-off, with the top candidates neck and neck and the votes nearly fully counted. President George...
Bloomberg | South Africa is set to briefly overtake Nigeria and Egypt as the continent’s largest economy next year, International Monetary Fund forecasts show. The IMF’s...
By Tokunbo Aderemi Ayoola Nigeria’s railway network serves only a small portion of the country. The country is 923,770 square kilometers (357,000 square miles) , with...
By Gregory Simpkins Africa was the world’s cradle of civilization, and the people who left over the millennia (as well as those who remained) offered new...
Reuters | Liberia’s President George Weah and opposition leader Joseph Boakai are nearly tied in the race for the presidency following a October 10 election, provisional...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu There is a popular saying that a disease that does not kill you strengthens you. In some cases, this has been scientifically...
AP | The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) said he will gradually ease the state of military rule in the conflict-riddled east...
Reuters | Tanzania is expecting to officially launch the country’s fifth oil and gas licensing round by June and award licences to the winners by December...
Bloomberg | Tanzania will target boosting investment from India, the East African nation’s biggest trading partner, by 10-fold in the next 2 years. The Tanzania Investment...
AP | Liberian President George Weah is seeking a second term in office Tuesday, hoping that his efforts to pave roads, build hospitals and bring electricity...
By Gregory Simpkins For the past several years, African governments and their non-African supporters have lamented the continuing exclusion of African governments from seats on international...
Bloomberg | A team spun out of Carlyle Group Inc. said they’ve got backing from the founders of the US private equity (PE) firm as well...
AP | Kenyan lawmakers said Wednesday that parliamentary approval is required before the deployment of police to the Kenya-led peacekeeping mission in Haiti to combat gang...
By Gregory Simpkins The Conference of the Parties (COP) is the decision-making body of the United Nations effort to combat climate change. It has met every...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu When John Rockefeller Jr. donated land to the United Nations (UN) after the Second World War, signs of the Cold War were...
Reuters | Air Senegal and Morocco’s Royal Air Maroc on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding for code-sharing and other steps to deepen cooperation. Air Senegal...
In North America, we have taken clean water for granted until recent events in Flint, Michigan, and East Palestine, Ohio, brought into question the safety of...
S&P Global | The long-awaited Dangote refinery – billed as a game-changer for Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa – will receive its first cargo of crude in...
Hailing the two-day official state visit by Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi to The Bahamas as a success, Bahamas Prime Minister Philip E. Davis said that a...
By Ulf Engel After seven years of advocating for full membership, the African Union (AU) will join the Group of 20 “most important industrialized and developing...
Reuters | Nigeria’s two main opposition leaders on Tuesday filed separate appeals at the Supreme Court challenging a tribunal ruling that earlier this month upheld President...
By Gregory Simpkins The current wave of coups in Africa demonstrates a disdain for following through on democratic governance in Africa – mostly by impatient military...
Bloomberg | Egypt is considering holding presidential elections before the end of 2023, according to people familiar with the matter, an earlier than expected date as...
By Sameem Gaffar In today’s world, the rapid growth of urban populations is putting immense strain on cities and their infrastructure. As more people flock to...
Reuters | Djibouti launched a 60 megawatt MW windfarm on Friday, increasing the Horn of Africa country’s power production by almost 50 percent and reducing its...
By Ryan Elcock The partnership between the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Africa holds immense potential for the future economic development and growth of both regions. Although...
By Gregory Simpkins Since African nations began the road to independence in the 1950s, there have been about 100 coups in which militaries overthrew elected governments....
AFP | Liberia’s President George Weah officially launched his campaign for a second term on Thursday, in front of thousands of supporters in the capital Monrovia...
Bloomberg | Nigeria’s gridlocked commercial hub of Lagos started operating its first light-rail system on Monday, 12 years after it first planned to start ferrying riders....
Reuters | President Bola Tinubu has ordered a recall of Nigeria’s ambassadors the world over with immediate effect, his spokesman said on Saturday. “The president is...
By Gregory Simpkins At the recent 123rd National Black Business Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, I told a panel audience that I have been blessed to be...
By Nigel Roberts Africa has been stereotyped as poor and politically unstable for decades, but countries like China and Russia continue to make headway into many...
AFP | The African Union Commission’s Political Affairs, Peace and Security Department “strongly condemns the military takeover of power” in Gabon and “decides to immediately suspend...
By Chinedu Okafor According to Uganda’s finance ministry, the nation’s yearly and monthly trade deficits with the rest of the world have decreased as a result...
By Christopher Isike How might BRICS affect US-African ties? Altering diplomatic relations between African countries and the US on account of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China...
Startups in Kenya have received more equity funding from investors in Africa in the first half of 2023, as per data released by Briter Bridges. The...
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) chairman, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit is urging the 15-member grouping to maintain the momentum of fostering a closer relationship with Africa as the...
By Gregory Simpkins One of the biggest stories in recent weeks has been the ongoing evolution of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), this...
Reuters | Zimbabwe’s elections commission said late on Saturday that incumbent Emmerson Mnangagwa had won this week’s presidential election with roughly 53 percent of the vote,...
African economies can become major participants in global supply chains by harnessing their vast resources of materials needed by high-technology sectors and their own growing consumer...
By Chinedu Okafor China’s senior African diplomat stated earlier this week, during a briefing on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in South Africa that African...
AFP | BRICS leaders have agreed to expand the club of major emerging economies and adopted conditions for entry, South Africa said on Wednesday, as the...
By Bhaso Ndzendze Some three decades since the end of the Cold War, the world order is undergoing a structural transformation. At the heart of it...
Bloomberg | Flutterwave Inc., Africa’s largest startup, is pressing ahead with plans for an initial public offering after making headway in resolving allegations of financial impropriety...
By Zita Zage In recent years, the BRICS group of nations, consisting of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, has emerged as a formidable presence...
By Gregory Simpkins It has been my great honor to work on the goal of connecting the elements of the African Diaspora for more than a...
Reuters | Ethiopian Airlines will start manufacturing aircraft parts in a venture with Boeing at an initial cost of US$15 million, the government’s investment agency said...
By Chido Mpemba and Chido Munyati Africa is a continent teeming with youthful energy and untapped potential, boasting the world’s youngest population with more than 60...
Reuters | The development bank founded by the so-called BRICS countries closed the auction for its first South African rand bonds on Tuesday, as it comes...
Reuters | Safaricom’s M-Pesa mobile money service went live in Ethiopia on Wednesday, in a boost to the Kenyan telecoms operator as it seeks to kickstart...
By Gregory Simpkins Since the coup in Niger last month, sanctions have been levied against the new regime, borders have been closed and now that the...
Bloomberg | The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has stockpiled 300,000 carats of diamonds under new regulations which compel miners to pay half of their royalties using...
Bloomberg | Ghana approved a green-minerals policy to help manage the exploitation and production of lithium, a step toward tapping into the multibillion-dollar global industry. The...
Africa News | Niger’s military coup leaders announced the appointment of Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine as prime minister on Monday evening in a statement read out...
Bloomberg | Liberian President George Weah will face over a dozen opponents when the country votes in a October 10 general election amid mounting anger over...
By Gregory Simpkins The coup virus in Africa continues to infect nations – even those that had seemed somewhat immune. Niger has been considered a beacon...
Uber and Safaricom have partnered to ease payment of trips by riders across Kenya through M-Pesa. This follows an earlier deal between the wireless carrier and...
AFP | Ivory Coast’s former president Henri Konan Bédié has died aged 89 in hospital in Abidjan, a member of his party’s communications team told AFP...
By Gregory Simpkins In my time in and out of the U.S. government, I have seen and heard much about the value of women entrepreneurs. Years...
Reuters | Representatives from various African and Caribbean entities joined forces at a historic event this week in the capital of Barbados, Bridgetown, to demand reparations...
Reuters | Telecom firm MTN Uganda, a unit of South Africa’s MTN Group, on Friday launched the first 5G network in the east African country. MTN...
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary General Carla Barnett says there has been progress in trade and investment between Africa and the 15-member regional integration grouping following the...
AP | Ghana’s parliament has voted to abolish the death penalty for all crimes except high treason, formalizing what has been a de facto moratorium on...
By William Blackie African commodities played an important role in China’s development into a modern industrial giant and global economic superpower. Africa has also benefited from...
By Gregory Simpkins A century ago, Jamaican Diaspora leader Marcus Garvey established what he hoped would be a global economic partnership between the Africa Diaspora in...
AP | Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon broke the women’s mile record by nearly 5 seconds on Friday at the Monaco Diamond League for her third world mark...
Reuters | Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu on Friday announced the creation of a new infrastructure fund, part of a series of measures to boost the economy...
The Exchange Africa | While global economic growth is projected to average between 2.7 percent and 3.2 percent, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) will...
Bloomberg | The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group is in discussions to back a new debt-for-nature swap, marking its entry into a fast-growing corner of the...
Bloomberg | Ghana’s parliament passed a law legalizing the cultivation of cannabis for industrial and health purposes, a move that will help the West African nation...
By Henri Al Helaly Entrepreneurship in Africa is on an exponential upsurge. The vibrant entrepreneurial landscape is being propelled by several factors: a young demographic driving...
By Gregory Simpkins I debated with myself long and hard and consulted colleagues before writing this blog because I know it is a sensitive and contentious...
By Imali Ngusale The human rights office spokesman Jeremy Laurence calls for prompt, thorough, independent and transparent investigations into the deaths and injuries related to the...
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...
Reuters | Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Wednesday discussed the Sudanese crisis, bilateral relations and Ethiopia’s giant dam on...
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...
Moove, an Nigerian mobility company, that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership across Africa, has secured US$8 million in funds from Absa...
By Padraig Carmody A few years ago, the BRICS grouping – Brazil, Russia, China, India and South Africa – had lost salience because three of its...
By D. Yaw Atiglo What is the age makeup of Ghana’s population? It is important to look at the trends in the changing population structure. Ghana’s...
Guyana will host the second AfriCaribbean Trade and Investment Forum (ACTIF23) in October, according to a statement. The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) and the Guyana government...
Bloomberg | Nigerian President Bola Tinubu suspended excise taxes on telecommunications services and some locally produced goods introduced 2 months ago. The new head of state...
AP | President Salva Kiir of South Sudan says his country’s long-delayed elections will take place in 2024 and that he will be on the ballot....
AP | Senegalese President Macky Sall declared Monday evening that he will not run for a third term in next year’s elections, ending years of uncertainty...
By Gregory Simpkins Africa, as with the rest of the developing world, continues to be impacted by events on the international stage – from the Ukraine-Russia...
Reuters | Ethiopia, one of Africa’s fastest-growing economies, has asked to join the BRICS bloc of emerging markets, the foreign ministry said on Thursday. The term...
Bloomberg | Long-delayed negotiations between Tanzania and oil majors for a US$42 billion onshore liquefied natural gas plant were concluded in May, paving the way for...
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...
By Gregory Simpkins Now into its second year, the war ignited by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine drones on. After billions of dollars in weapons and financial...
By Christina Mammone Sierra Leone’s June 2023 parliamentary elections are the fifth since the end of the civil war in 2002. They also mark a decade...
Bloomberg | Ghana’s economy grew faster than anticipated in the first quarter, driven by the services and agricultural sectors. Gross domestic product (GDP) expanded 4.2 percent...
AP | With mounting frustration due to an ailing economy, rising unemployment and looming deadly protests, Sierra Leoneans are heading to the polls on Saturday, June...
Barbados Today | Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley has called for closer ties between the African Union (AU) and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) in order to...
By Gregory Simpkins There has been a lot said and written about industrialization in Africa, including assigning blame as to why the continent lagged behind other...
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...
AFP | Eritrea has rejoined the East African bloc, the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), nearly 16 years after the politically isolated state pulled out of...
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...
Bloomberg | Nigeria passed legislation that’s expected to set off the biggest shakeup of the West African nation’s chronically inadequate power industry in almost 2 decades....
By Gregory Simpkins Members of the African Diaspora in North America are justifiably concerned about racism in our backyard, so to speak. The existence of “Karens”...
