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Harnessing the Nile: Ethiopia’s Hydropower Revolution Takes Shape

Few infrastructure projects have embodied Africa’s ambitions as powerfully as Ethiopia’s Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). Rising along the Blue Nile, approximately 700 kilometres northwest of Addis Ababa, the US$5.

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Connecting a Region: Côte d’Ivoire’s Rise as West Africa’s Infrastructure Hub

Before dawn breaks in Abidjan, trucks loaded with agricultural products, manufactured goods, and consumer items begin moving along highways that connect Côte d’Ivoire to markets across West Africa. At the.

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Building Regional Prosperity: The Strategic Impact of the Abidjan-Lagos Highway

Every day, thousands of trucks move goods along the West African coastline, transporting everything from agricultural produce and manufactured products to consumer goods and industrial materials. Yet journeys that should.

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Industrial Growth Strategy: Ethiopia Moves Up the Global Value Chain

Ethiopia has spent more than a decade pursuing one of Africa’s most ambitious industrialisation agendas. Through the development of industrial parks, special economic zones, transport infrastructure, and manufacturing clusters, the.

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Why Abidjan Is Becoming West Africa’s Most Dynamic City

Abidjan, the economic capital of Côte d’Ivoire, is undergoing one of the most ambitious urban transformations in Africa. Long recognised as a major commercial centre, the city is now evolving.

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Africa’s Concrete Ambitions: How Cement Giants Are Driving Infrastructure Expansion

Few industries offer a clearer window into an economy’s future than cement. Before highways, railways, bridges, ports, housing estates, industrial parks, schools, hospitals, and power plants can be built, cement.

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Lobito Corridor: The New Silk Road of Africa

As the global competition for critical minerals intensifies, a historic railway stretching from Africa’s mineral-rich interior to the Atlantic Ocean is being transformed into one of the continent’s most important.

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Beyond Lagos & Nairobi: The Rise of Africa’s Next Tech Capitals

For more than a decade, Lagos and Nairobi have dominated conversations about Africa’s digital economy. Lagos became synonymous with fintech innovation and venture capital activity, while Nairobi earned global recognition.

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Lesotho Highlands Project: Powering Progress Beneath the Mountains

The acceleration of Phase II of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP), marked by the launch of the second Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) at the Polihali site, represents far more.

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AFC’s $1.17 Trillion Pension Fund Vision Could Transform Africa’s Infrastructure Future

Africa’s infrastructure story has long been shaped by a striking contradiction.   The continent possesses some of the world’s youngest populations, fastest-growing cities, vast untapped energy reserves, and strategically important.

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