UNGA 80: What Africa Must Demand
22/09/2025As leaders converge at the United Nations headquarters in New York for the 80th session of the General Assembly, the air is thick with expectation. Representatives of all 193 UN.
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Governance and Policy
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Bits, Bytes & Regulation: Mapping Africa’s Tech Policy Landscape in 2025
19/09/2025In 2025, regulation sits at the intersection of accelerating technology and fragile public trust. Globally, nations have moved beyond debating whether to regulate digital platforms, artificial intelligence, data flows and.
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Africa Development
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Leadership
Will Nigeria’s Push for Unified Oil Regulations Across Africa Deliver?
19/09/2025Recently, African petroleum regulators under Nigeria’s leadership have launched a continental forum to harmonise oil regulation, aiming to draw critical investment into the region’s rapidly growing energy sector. Yet, signing.
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Africa Development
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Innovation
Global Spotlight on Africa’s Fintech Innovation
19/09/2025In 2025, CNBC and Statista unveiled their list of the world’s top 300 fintech companies, and African firms earned a rightful place among the names shaping the future of financial.
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Africa Development
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Trade and Investment
AGOA at Risk: What It Means for African Industries
18/09/2025The African Growth and Opportunity Act, better known as AGOA, was born in 2000 with the hope of being more than just a trade deal. Envisioned under President Bill Clinton,.
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Africa Development
Energy
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Inside Zimbabwe’s $455 Million Power Plant Revamp
18/09/2025Zimbabwe has agreed a $455 million, 15-year concession deal with the Africa-focused unit of India’s Jindal Steel for the refurbishment of a 920 megawatt coal-fired power plant, the energy minister.
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Global Development
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Political leadership
Chad’s Constitutional Overhaul and the Global Stakes
17/09/2025In mid-September 2025, Chad’s National Assembly approved constitutional revisions that extend the presidential term from five to seven years and remove term limits, allowing the president to run for office.
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Global Development
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Politics & Policy
GERD’s Ripple Effect: Power, Politics, and the Nile’s Future
16/09/2025The inauguration of Ethiopia’s Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) stands as a monumental achievement for the African continent, an engineering feat that has reshaped conversations about energy, sovereignty, and water.
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Africa Development
Finance
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What Happened at Africa’s 2nd Climate Summit in Ethiopia?
16/09/2025For decades, Africa has been portrayed as the victim of climate change, its lands scarred by droughts, floods, desertification, and deepening food insecurity. Yet, at the Second Africa Climate Summit.
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Africa Development
Environment
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Investing in Clean Cooking in Africa: A $37 Billion Opportunity to Save Lives
15/09/2025Across the world, the way people cook their daily meals is both intensely private and profoundly political. Today roughly two billion people still prepare food on open fires or inefficient.
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