Military Power in Africa 2025: Beyond Troop Numbers and Budgets
18/11/2025Africa’s militaries are often judged by the size of their armies or the heft of their budgets, but 2025 is showing us that power isn’t just about numbers. Recent analyses.
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COP30
Environment
Highlights
Africa Strikes Back at COP30: The Continent That Won’t Be Ignored
12/11/2025As the world converged in Belém, Brazil, for the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30), a familiar tension resurfaced: the widening gulf between climate pledges and tangible action. Yet, amid.
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Climate Change
COP30
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What Went Down at Day 1 of COP30
11/11/2025The 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) opened on 10 November in Belém, Brazil, with a resounding message: the era of promises has ended, and the age of implementation.
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Markets
Sustainability
What Africa’s CPI Decline Means for Everyday Consumers
05/11/2025Across markets in Africa, goods are gradually becoming affordable again. Commodity prices that once spiked under the weight of global inflation and geopolitical shocks are beginning to stabilise, while transport.
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Economy
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Tourism Africa
Grand Egyptian Museum Signals New Era for African Heritage and Tourism
31/10/2025There’s a cultural and economic renaissance unfolding on the banks of the Nile, powered by the timeless currency of civilisation itself. Two decades of ambition, delay, and determination later, Egypt.
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Finance
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Trade and Investment
From Aid to Investment: Africa’s Defining Economic Shift in RMB’s 2025/26 Outlook
29/10/2025Africa’s growth story is being rewritten, not through aid dependency, but through investment, trade, and self-determination. The newly released Rand Merchant Bank (RMB) “Where to Invest in Africa 2025/26” (WTIIA).
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Economy
Finance
Highlights
How Regional Lenders Are Powering a New Era of African Economic Sovereignty
29/10/2025There’s a quiet revolution unfolding across Africa’s financial landscape, one driven not by aid or Western capital, but by the continent’s own institutions. As global financing tightens and traditional creditors.
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Africa Development
Finance
Highlights
Inside AfDB’s East Africa Strategy and the Road to a More Connected Continent
28/10/2025Africa’s economic future is being redrawn through the corridors of regional integration, and East Africa is right at the heart of it. The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group’s recent mission.
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Global Development
Highlights
Trade and Investment
How Africa and China Are Transforming Global Development Models Together
28/10/2025Africa’s voice in shaping the global economy is growing louder, and China is listening. From zero-tariff trade to green technology transfers, the deepening partnership between China and Africa signals not.
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Africa's Automotive Industry
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Innovation
Africa’s Car Market Revs Up as Russia Joins the Race for Local Manufacturing
27/10/2025Africa’s car market is shifting gears, and Russia wants in. Following the successful export of tractors to Ethiopia, Russian automakers UAZ and AvtoVAZ, the makers of the Lada, are steering.
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