By Fidel Amakye Owusu Most African nations inherited their juridical sovereignty from colonial administrations that dominated the continent from the mid-19th century. Their borders – drawn...
By Apollo Buregyeya When the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) began generating electricity in 2023, it marked more than an engineering triumph – it signaled a...
By Danilo Desiderio As the new year begins, it is customary to examine growth estimates for various regions around the world in the months ahead. This...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu While the different geopolitical zones across Africa have dynamics worth the attention of observers in 2025, the Horn of Africa and North...
By Godfred Zina Despite Africa’s economy rising to $2.8 trillion in 2024, there continue to be economic disparities among the 54 African countries, including South Sudan. With...
By Gregory Simpkins Making arrangements to travel often begins early in the year, especially if it involves international travel. The Business Insider Africa website has rated...
By Mary Alorh Former Ghanaian President John Evans Atta Mills’ neutral stance during the Ivorian crisis in 2010 demonstrated remarkable diplomatic acumen. When urged by then-opposition...
By Mike Muller A new round of angry exchanges has broken out between Egypt and Ethiopia over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). On September 1,...
By Mary Alorh Former Ghanaian President John Evans Atta Mills’ neutral stance during the 2010 Ivorian crisis was a strategic move. When then-opposition leader Nana Akufo...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu The Global Terrorism Index, a comprehensive study evaluating the impact of terrorism in 163 countries, covers about 99.7 percent of the world’s...
Reuters | Egypt will bid to host the 2036 and 2040 Summer Olympics, with the country’s improving infrastructure and sports facilities key for a successful African...
The vision of Africa’s founding fathers to unite the continent in shared prosperity is coming to fruition as Nigeria prepares to launch Preferential Trade under the...
Kenya has emerged as a beacon of resilience in the face of a global funding downturn for emerging businesses, boasting a remarkable 17 percent surge in...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu When my classmates and I were taught about the “coming of the Europeans” in basic school, one of the reasons dominated: to...
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...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Last year – 2023 – was a busy one for Africa as far as elections were concerned. Multiple states in different geopolitical...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 | 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...
Business Daily | Kenyan President William Ruto has announced plans to remove visa requirements for African nationals travelling to Kenya for business as a first major...
By Gregory Simpkins There has been increasing talk about a New World Order created by the alliance primarily of China and Russia, along with other nations...
By Ovigwe Eguegu and Hannah Ryder The 27th Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP27) has officially opened. 44,000 people including 90 heads of state have registered...
The East African | Kenya exported its first goods under the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement to Ghana late last month. Kenyan-made Exide batteries...
Reuters | African countries will use the COP27 climate talks in Egypt next month to advocate for a common energy position that sees fossil fuels as...
Reuters | Ethiopia has completed the third phase of filling the reservoir for its huge dam on the Blue Nile river, the government said on Friday,...
Bloomberg | A Nigerian startup backed by private-equity firm Lightrock LLP is looking to deploy electric vehicles in about 8 African countries by next year as...
Reuters | Ugandan film producer Raymond Malinga, whose work will feature in an upcoming Disney anthology of animated films from across Africa, hopes the project will...
By Wanjohi Kabukuru | The Associated Press AP | From wind farms across the African coastline to geothermal projects in the east African rift valley, a...
Google, in its latest “Africa Developer Ecosystem Report 2021“, has revealed that Africa’s tech developer ecosystem is on the rise. This is according to the findings...
AFP | Senegal’s President Macky Sall declared Monday a public holiday to celebrate the national football team’s first ever African Cup of Nations crown following their...
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As negotiators at the Glasgow climate talks try to agree on greenhouse gas cuts, African leaders say poorer countries can’t be expected to remake their systems...
New capital is designed as a high-tech "smart city", will ease congestion in Cairo.
By David Walwyn The lack of vaccine production capacity in African countries has been the subject of much concern and hand-wringing in the wake of the...
By Hisham Eldardiry Since Ethiopia announced the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in 2011, there have been disagreements between Egypt and Ethiopia on...
Two-way trade for the year to the end of August shows 40 percent rise from coronavirus-hit 2020
Reuters | U.N. Security Council members on Thursday backed African Union mediation efforts between Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan in a dispute over the operation of a...
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Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. PHOTO/File Egypt’s former President Hosni Mubarak on Wednesday denied that he ordered protesters killed during the 2011 uprising that deposed him,...
The African Union (AU) ended the suspension of Egypt and Guinea Bissau from the grouping on Tuesday after both countries elected new leaders, a senior AU...
Screen grab Abdel Fattah al-Sisi takes the oath of office during his swearing-in ceremony as Egypt’s new president. PHOTO/Reuters Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was sworn in as...
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the former army chief, is on course for a sweeping victory in Egypt’s presidential election, early provisional results showed. al-Sisi captured 91.8 percent...
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. PHOTO/Reuters Egyptians were choosing a new president on Monday in an election likely to be won by the man who nearly a year...
Ethiopia’s bold decision to pay for a huge dam itself has overturned generations of Egyptian control over the Nile’s waters, and may help transform one of...
Vodafone brought the mobile money service that has revolutionized banking in Africa to Romania on Monday, offering M-Pesa text-message transactions to millions of customers in...
A water expert from the AUC University in Cairo has confirmed that Ethiopia’s hydroelectric dam will not hurt Egypt’s share of the Nile waters. According to...
Data from this year’s Anzisha Prize applications reveal a potential shortage of young entrepreneurs, particularly women, in North and Central Africa. While 55 percent of the...
Construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. PHOTO/File Ethiopia is on track to generating electricity within 18 months from what will be Africa’s largest power plant....
Field Marshal Abdelfatah al-Seesi, the army chief who ousted the freely elected government of Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi and the Muslim Brotherhood, flew to the United...
Research and Markets Africa B2C E-Commerce Report – 2013 indicates that growing Internet penetration, the spread of mobile technology and improvement of payment and delivery infrastructure...
(Reuters) – Egypt’s government has resigned, the prime minister said on Monday, a step likely to pave the way for army chief Field Marshal Abdel Fattah...
Egypt’s interim government unveiled its second stimulus package on Monday, which will inject 33.9 billion Egyptian pounds into the economy, with most of that money coming...
An overwhelming majority of Egyptians who voted on the country’s new constitution have backed the draft charter, a senior Egyptian official said Thursday. The official told...
Egyptians voted Tuesday on a new constitution in a referendum that will pave the way for a likely presidential run by the nation’s top general months...
(Bloomberg) – When Gbemiga Omotoso bought a Samsung tablet computer last year, he handed over his cash to a man in a van. There was nothing...
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. PHOTO/File Toppled dictator Hosni Mubarak left jail for under house arrest on Thursday but his release stirred little reaction as Egypt...
(Reuters) – Protests by supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohamed Mursi turned violent across Egypt on Friday, with witnesses reporting four dead in central Cairo and...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama announced on Thursday that the United States is cancelling joint military exercises with Egypt next...
Egypt’s government has slapped a month-long nighttime curfew on the capital Cairo and 10 provinces. Wednesday’s decision was announced shortly after interim President Adly Mansour declared...
The African Union suspended Egypt from the continental body on Friday after the ousting of president Mohammed Mursi, in line with its strict rules against unconstitutional...
Egypt’s interim president Adly Mansour speaks after being sworn in at the constitutional court in Cairo, Thursday, July 4, 2013. IMAGE/Egypt State Television Egypt’s chief justice...
Immediate past Egyptian president Mohammed Mursi Egypt’s military has ousted the country’s Islamist president, replacing him with the chief justice of the Supreme constitutional Court, calling...
(Reuters) – Ethiopia and Egypt cooled talk of war on Tuesday and agreed to more dialogue to resolve a row over a giant dam that Ethiopia...
Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi. PHOTO/File Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi has backed down in a dire political crisis marked by weeks of street protests, after the powerful...
South Africa’s biggest bank, Standard Bank, on Monday said that trade between China and Africa is likely to be over US$200 billion this year. The bank...
President Barack Obama with troops in Afghanistan. PHOTO/United States Military, via Associated Press (Reuters) – Mack McDowell likes to spend time at the local knife and...
African middle class family in Lusaka, Zambia. PHOTO/Georgina Smith/The Guardian A growing middle class has fueled Africa’s fast-growing consumer market driving the regional economy, according to...
