The latest wave of bullish commentary about the continent recycles familiar blind spots. A decade after "Africa Rising" faded, the real prerequisites for transformation remain stubbornly...
By Michele Moscaritoli Africa’s investment landscape tells a story of striking contradictions. Extractive industries – mining, oil, gas, and the minerals powering the global energy transition...
By Des H Rikhotso President Duma Boko’s refusal to visit the White House signals a bolder African posture on sovereignty – and may be backed by...
By Gregory Simpkins Africa has long been a target of outside interests looking to capitalize on what the continent has to offer. The 19th-century European exploration...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Great-power competition has returned to Africa. But this is no simple reprise of the Cold War – it is more chaotic, more...
By Gregory Simpkins In recent weeks, the island of Greenland has become a hot international topic. It has been at the top of the agenda for...
By Des H Rikhotso In the heart of Africa lies a nation of staggering contradictions: the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo). At once a...
By Dishant Shah On paper, Africa is a geological powerhouse. The continent harbors nearly 30 percent of the world’s known reserves of cobalt, lithium, manganese, rare...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu In a region long scarred by cycles of violence and broken accords, a new peace agreement brokered in Doha offers a glimmer...
By Paul Nantulya Africa is at the center of rising global demand for critical minerals and metals such as lithium, graphite, cobalt, coltan, manganese, platinum, tantalum,...
By Danilo Desiderio A groundbreaking study from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, titled “Diversifying European Supply Chains: Can Africa Play a Role?“, argues that...
By Godfred Zina The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) and Belgium share a fraught, centuries-old relationship shaped by colonial exploitation, imbalanced power dynamics, and...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu The uranium used in the creation of the first atomic bombs was largely sourced from the mines of the Lubumbashi area in...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu The history of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is that of a resource-rich territory that is faced with one conflict or...
By Raphaël Deberdt and Jessica DiCarlo The mineral-rich Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) is often portrayed as a victim of exploitation by China, the...
Bloomberg | Zambia plans to establish an investment company that will control at least 30 percent of critical minerals production from future mines. Mines Minister Paul...
Bloomberg | Africa could have its first cobalt sulphate refinery by the end of 2025, one of the few outside of China capable of making 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...
