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Sustainable Infrastructure: Africa’s Key to Economic Transformation

Africa’s journey towards achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 presents both a significant challenge and an opportunity. Across the continent, governments, development institutions and private investors.

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Trust-First AI: How Africa Can Build Its Own AI Economy

Africa’s ambition to build a thriving artificial intelligence (AI) economy, potentially contributing up to $1 trillion to GDP by 2035, is unfolding against a backdrop of significant infrastructure constraints. Unlike.

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AfCFTA Growth: Strengthening Africa’s Food Systems

Africa’s food systems are under real pressure, from a changing climate to shifting global trade patterns, but across the continent, a set of deliberate reforms is turning those pressures into.

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Strategic Energy: African Pipeline Projects Advancing Integration and Development Goals

The signing of the $25 billion Nigeria-Morocco Atlantic Gas Pipeline agreement is a striking demonstration of Africa’s ambition to turn its natural resource wealth into lasting regional prosperity. It is.

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Workforce Development: Unlocking Africa’s Demographic Health Dividend

At the 76th session of the WHO Regional Committee for Africa in Addis Ababa, health ministers from across the continent agreed, unanimously, on a ten-year plan to fix one of.

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Bangui’s Solar Leap: Power Supply Up 60 Percent

For a country where reliable electricity has long been the exception rather than the rule, a single power plant on the outskirts of Bangui is now doing something remarkable: changing.

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Kenya’s Dealmaking Boom: $1.44 Billion and Climbing

For years, Nigeria’s sheer market size made it the default answer to where dealmaking in Africa happens. New data suggests that assumption is being rewritten, and Kenya is the country.

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Powering Rural Nigeria: A New $4M Push for Solar Mini-Grids

In the villages scattered across Jigawa and Bauchi states, evening has long meant the same thing: the sun goes down, and so does almost everything else. Shops close early. Children.

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DIASPORA & INNOVATION: Africa’s Silicon Valley Bridge

For years, Africa’s relationship with its diaspora in the United States has been framed almost entirely around remittances, money sent home to support families and everyday consumption. That picture, while.

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FINANCE & SMEs: $332M Boost for SA’s Small Businesses

The African Development Bank has invested $332 million, roughly R5.4 billion, in a social bond issued by Standard Bank Group, in a transaction designed to widen access to financing for.

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