A single investment by an Australian miner could reshape the global supply chain for critical minerals - and place a small landlocked nation at the center...
By Lailla Mutajogera The most important investment opportunity of the next decade is not in artificial intelligence, not in green energy, and not in the next...
Africa is being asked to trade biological sovereignty for short-term aid. This time, it is pushing back.
By Des H Rikhotso The narrative around African investment has shifted from cautious optimism to calculated urgency. While much of the developed world grapples with demographic...
By Danilo Desiderio The global energy conversation is undergoing a profound transformation. As the World Economic Forum recently highlighted, advanced economies are increasingly prioritizing energy security...
By Gregory Simpkins Africa is blessed with natural and human resources. The continent holds 60 percent of the world’s best solar resources, 60 percent of the...
By Victory Azimih For much of the past half-century, analysts speculated about when Africa would “rise.” That question is now obsolete. The real issue is how...
By Kelly Mua Kingsly Africa is the silent engine of the global economy – its soil rich with the very minerals that power electric vehicles, its...
By Gregory Simpkins I have been associated with the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) since House staffer Mike Williams wrote the first draft. I worked...
By Ajay Wasserman In the first half of 2025, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) shattered records – signing over US$124 billion in new investments across...
By Gregory Simpkins Recently, I wrote about US President Donald Trump’s global peace efforts. One of the peace efforts involved the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
By Godfred Zina As global powers intensify their competition for influence across Africa, the United States is redefining its approach to the continent – not through...
By Gregory Simpkins At the outset of the current Trump administration, it was widely believed that his transactional mindset would facilitate US-Africa trade and boost both...
By John Kourkoutas Most people have never heard of the Lobito Corridor, a transformative trade route that connects Angola, Zambia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo...
