Ghana completed its IMF-supported debt restructuring in 2024, restoring access to international capital markets after the 2022 economic crisis. Gold, cocoa, and...
TotalEnergies is signalling LNG project resumption as Cabo Delgado security improves. With Eni's Coral FLNG operational, Mozambique is beginning the energy expo...
Djibouti handles 70 percent of Ethiopian imports and exports and significant Somalia, South Sudan, and Eritrea trade. New port developments in Berbera and Lamu...
West Africa's Exclusive Economic Zones contain some of the world's most productive fishing grounds, but illegal fishing, industrial overfishing, and weak value-...
Africa's e-commerce market is growing at 18 percent annually but remains less than 3 percent of total retail. Jumia's pivot to profitability, Amazon's South Afr...
The DRC and Zambia together hold the world's largest copper reserves and produce approximately 3 million tonnes annually. The energy transition's copper demand...
Gabon's August 2023 military coup ended 56 years of Bongo family rule. The transition government has maintained economic relationships and mining operations, an...
The DRC produces 70 percent of global cobalt, an essential component of lithium-ion batteries. Child labour concerns and supply chain traceability requirements...
Africa has less than 2 percent of global shipping tonnage despite generating 5 percent of world trade. Building a continental shipping fleet is both a trade and...
Cameroon is Central Africa's most diversified economy, combining petroleum, timber, cocoa, coffee, and manufacturing. Douala Port serves five landlocked neighbo...
PAPSS, operational since 2022, enables cross-border payments in African currencies without routing through correspondent banks in London or New York, potentiall...
South Africa exports 1.5 million tonnes of citrus annually, making it the world's second-largest citrus exporter. Morocco, Egypt, and South Africa together domi...
Rwanda hosts the African Union headquarters for key institutions and has attracted over 60 multinational headquarters to Kigali. A new Bugesera International Ai...
Tanzania's $463 million Dar es Salaam port expansion is adding berth capacity and digital infrastructure to handle growing trade volumes from Zambia, Malawi, DR...
350 million Africans lack legal identity documents, excluding them from formal financial services. World Bank ID4D, MOSIP, and national biometric ID programmes...