By Sheena Raikundalia Consider the humble lobster. In the 17th and 18th centuries, it was fed to prisoners and indentured laborers – so despised that colonial...
By Franco Bonghan When Burkina Faso banned fresh tomato exports to feed its own processing plants, it did more than protect a crop. It quietly repudiated...
By Victory Azimih The next global crisis will not originate in financial markets. It will begin in the world’s food systems. Nations that cannot feed themselves...
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 Danilo Desiderio The refrain echoes through conference halls from Addis Ababa to Cape Town with predictable regularity: Africa must stop exporting raw materials and start...
By Lailla Mutajogera The secret to profitable manufacturing in Africa isn’t capital, risk assessment, or even sector selection – it’s understanding who needs your factory to...
By Michele Moscaritoli For decades, Africa occupied a singular role in the global imagination: the perpetual recipient. Aid packages, charitable donations, development programs – always framed...
By Danilo Desiderio The global trading system is fracturing, and Africa faces a pivotal choice: become a strategic player or remain a passive bystander in a...
By Gregory September China has crossed a historic threshold: a US$1 trillion trade surplus. Even as exports to the United States decline sharply, the world’s second-largest...
By Apollo Buregyeya The 2024 Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) Statistical Abstract reveals a truth that Uganda’s industrial policymakers have studiously avoided confronting. The country’s cement...
By Mark-Anthony Johnson “We cannot be beggars in the international community when we have abundant resources. We must have the leverage – and even bring them...
By Dishant Shah At first glance, the map appears to be nothing more than a transport plan: rail lines threading through the continent, ports dotting the...
By Juwon Akin-Olotu My father posed a deceptively simple question over dinner recently, one that cuts to the heart of West Africa’s agricultural conundrum: Why are...
By Des H Rikhotso For decades, Sub-Saharan Africa has shipped its raw gold overseas – often at a fraction of its potential value – while foreign...
By Dishant Shah Cocoa has sweetened balance sheets from Zurich to New York for over a century – but in the very soils where it’s grown,...
By Davida Ademuyiwa History offers a clear and unambiguous lesson: no nation has ever achieved sustained prosperity without first undergoing an industrial transformation. From 18th-century Britain...
By Danilo Desiderio For decades, a persistent narrative has shadowed Africa’s economic trajectory: the continent exports what it doesn’t consume and imports what it needs. A...
By Ziad Hamoui In a landmark move for regional integration, the African Union Commission (AUC), the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission, and the...
By Mary Alorh In today’s fiercely competitive global landscape, opportunity often emerges where others have failed – and nowhere is this more evident than in the...
By Dishant Shah Africa is rich – not just in natural resources, but in talent, innovation, and ambition. Yet, year after year, the continent quietly hemorrhages...
By Jean Claude Niyomugabo For decades, Africa’s agricultural narrative has been dominated by one central theme: primary production. We celebrate bountiful harvests and marvel at vast...
The Dangote Group has inaugurated Africa’s largest tomato processing facility in northern Nigeria, a US$20 million initiative aimed at reducing the country’s dependence on imported tomatoes,...
Kenya has unveiled plans to restrict the export of valuable minerals in their raw form, marking a significant policy shift aimed at increasing government revenue. This...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu The map above highlights the top ten mineral-producing or extracting countries in Africa for 2022. With the surge in commodity prices, several...
Reuters | Uganda has formed a state-owned mining company to manage the government’s equity interests in mining operations, its minister for energy and mineral development, Ruth...
Reuters | Ghana opened its first commercial gold refinery in Accra, the capital, on Thursday as part of an effort by Africa’s leading gold producer to...
Africa, abundant in natural resources, is often celebrated as the continent of the future. However, realizing its full potential requires a significant transformation in resource utilization....
Uganda is poised to inaugurate its inaugural tin refining facility in the southwest region, marking a significant stride in bolstering capacity and advancing mineral value within...
