Power & Economics

BRICS-led de-dollarisation is loosening the dollar's grip on global finance, a daily, invisible tax on African economies for decades. The...

Africa now holds more than $2 trillion in its own pension funds, sovereign pools, and asset managers; the cupboard is...

Synthetic diamonds are collapsing mid-market prices and exposing how Africa was always excluded from the value layers that matter. The...

A $990 million UK-backed port deal reveals how infrastructure financing in Africa transfers value to external actors while leaving the...

Africa's Great Green Wall is only 4 to 15 per cent complete and chronically underfunded. Its mixed progress reveals what...

Climate change is not a bad season but a permanent renegotiation with land that no longer behaves as inherited knowledge...

France's exit from the Sahel is not a withdrawal but a redistribution, away from visible garrisons toward quieter, embedded influence...

The climate-driven biodiversity crisis is not an ecological abstraction. In Africa, it is dismantling the natural infrastructure that food systems,...

Africa's youth-led climate movement is not importing Western environmentalism. It is building a response rooted in survival, sovereignty, and the...

AGOA's extension through 2026 avoided crisis but crystallised a deeper truth-preferential access built on political compliance is not a trade...

Somalia's first oil drilling operation is a structural turning point, but the country's resource sovereignty will be defined not by...

Africa holds 60 percent of the world's best solar resources and 600 million of its people without electricity. The gap...

Africa holds 60 per cent of the world's solar potential and receives under 3 per cent of clean-energy investment. The...

The AfCFTA removes tariffs on most goods, but a colonial road map built to drain Africa outward, an estimated $81...

Britain's post-Brexit Africa trade pivot has produced uneven results. Kenya has captured the moment. Nigeria has not. The divergence reveals...

Eight years after the EAC promised to abolish non-tariff barriers, East African trade is strangled by protectionism and political distrust....

The Dangote Refinery exists, and that is no small thing, the largest single-train refinery on earth, built by a Nigerian....

The Strait of Hormuz is far from Africa, yet a continent that pumps crude and refines almost none of it...

President Faye promised that Senegalese resources would serve Senegalese people. The test is not the pledge but the machinery beneath...

The ninth China-Africa summit exposed a relationship past the point where its asymmetries can be hidden. Chinese infrastructure reshaped the...

Nigeria's N47 trillion 2025 budget is its largest ever, and that is precisely the tell. With more than 40 per...

Africa's potential, minerals, youth, arable land, is real; the machinery to convert it is not. The financing gap is not...

Africa's new oil frontier is a governance stress test, the gap between when revenues arrive and when institutions can manage...

Africa's sanitation gap is a governance failure as much as an infrastructure crisis. Hundreds of millions lack basic facilities, the...

The Sahel's coup governments are rewriting the terms of sovereignty — who can operate, on what terms, and who captures...

Nigeria's recurring labour strikes expose a structural economic crisis — inflation destroys wages faster than negotiations can restore them.

The Great Green Wall promised to restore the Sahel and halt desertification. Fifteen years in, progress is real but dangerously...

Zimbabwe's Mt Hampden capital project signals Vision 2030 ambition — but the gap between parliamentary symbolism and functional city infrastructure...

Sub-Saharan Africa holds the world's largest concentrations of critical minerals and fossil fuels, yet hosts more than half the global...

Prosper Africa promised a new era of U.S.-Africa trade. What it delivered was a branding exercise over a structural vacuum....