A landmark East African railway deal shows that dismantling invisible trade barriers is just as critical as laying tracks - a lesson West Africa urgently needs...
By John Kourkoutas Forget the GDP charts. Forget the foreign direct investment heatmaps. Forget the trade-flow diagrams and the color-coded risk indexes that have become the...
By Michele Moscaritoli The most consequential shift in African commerce isn’t happening across oceans. It’s happening across borders. For decades, the narrative around African trade focused...
By Ziad Hamoui The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) recently closed a US$1.75 billion receivables purchase facility for Angola’s Sonangol HR, serving as mandated lead arranger and...
By Lance Chisue The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) represents one of the most ambitious economic integration projects of the 21st century. Uniting 1.3 billion...
By Mark-Anthony Johnson Ethiopia’s ambitious US$12.5 billion airport project at Bishoftu represents far more than an infrastructure upgrade – it signals a fundamental shift in Africa’s...
By Dishant Shah Every conversation about Africa’s economic future eventually circles back to the same question: How do we industrialize at scale, and who leads the...
By Danilo Desiderio Africa’s trade corridors have long been hamstrung by congestion, unpredictable delays, and opaque cross-border procedures. For freight operators and logistics firms, moving goods...
By Dishant Shah Africa’s greatest obstacle was never its colonial-era borders. It was the enduring belief in their permanence – the idea that African economies must...
By Ziad Hamoui In the first quarter of 2025, a quiet but transformative shift reshaped Africa’s economic landscape: trade between the East African Community (EAC) and...
By Farhia Noor I am African. And last week, as I watched the historic Africa-Caribbean Community (CARICOM) summit unfold, I felt both pride and pain. Pride,...
By Danilo Desiderio In fragile geopolitical environments such as Sub-Saharan Africa – marked by territorial conflicts, road banditry, terrorist attacks, and inter-ethnic and inter-tribal clashes –...
