According to Brand Finance 2026 Global Soft Power Index, the United States leads globally with a score of 74.9, and China follows at 73.5. Africa’s story in 2026 is deliberately.
Across the global economy, governments are operating within narrower fiscal margins. Elevated sovereign debt, higher global interest rates and subdued growth have reshaped the policy landscape from Washington to Brussels.
In 2025, Africa marked its fastest year of solar growth on record, with total solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity additions rising by 54 per cent compared with 2024. Against this backdrop.
Nigeria’s annual inflation rate declined to 15.10 per cent in January 2026, extending the country’s disinflation streak to ten consecutive months and reinforcing a clear shift away from the acute.
The Nador West Med will begin operations in the fourth quarter of this year; Morocco will not simply be inaugurating a second Mediterranean deepwater port. It will be activating a.
Ethiopia has begun construction of a major new international airport in the town of Bishoftu, about 45 kilometres south-east of Addis Ababa, in a project that officials say will become.
Egypt has secured a $1.8 billion renewable energy agreement with Norway’s Scatec and China’s Sungrow, coupled with fresh LNG cooperation with Qatar, which indicates a pragmatic recalibration rather than a.
At the outset of 2026, the United States implemented a major shift in its visa issuance framework, introducing a refundable “visa bond” requirement for citizens of a growing list of.
Across Africa, conversations about growth, elections, stability, and reform increasingly circle back to one everyday reality: the cost of living. It’s no longer just an economic statistic buried in reports;.
The South African rand’s recently gained against the U.S. dollar as a result of a rise in the prices of precious metals, a key export component for the nation on.
