Nigeria's tile and ceramic sector has grown to 120 million sqm annual production capacity, displacing Chinese imports. Egypt's Cleopatra Ceramics is Africa's ex...
Tunisia combines automotive component manufacturing, textile exports, IT services, and olive oil exports within a Euro-Mediterranean trade framework. Political...
South Africa exports 330,000 vehicles annually worth $8 billion, making it the continent's only significant automotive exporter. AfCFTA creates a 1.4 billion co...
African governments routinely ban food exports during domestic shortages, disrupting regional trade and violating AfCFTA commitments. A continental food securit...
Invoice discounting and factoring are growing as SME-focused fintech lenders use buyer creditworthiness to extend working capital to small suppliers who cannot...
African fintech companies raised $1.5 billion in venture capital in 2023 after a correction from the $2.7 billion 2022 peak. Payments, lending, and insurtech ar...
Traditional L/C processing takes 5-10 days and costs $500-2,000 per transaction in Africa. Platforms like Contour, essDOCS, and TradeWindow are reducing process...
Côte d'Ivoire has maintained 6 to 8 percent GDP growth for 12 consecutive years, the longest sustained high growth record in West Africa. Abidjan's infrastru...
Nigeria accounts for 17 percent of sub-Saharan Africa's GDP and its trade policy choices reverberate across the continent. The government's industrialisation ag...
The East African Community Customs Union eliminates internal tariffs among six member states and applies a common external tariff. It is arguably Africa's most...
EU and US Sanitary and Phytosanitary rejections of African food exports cost the continent an estimated $670 million annually. Mycotoxin contamination, pesticid...
Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, and Malawi collectively produce 700,000 tonnes of tea annually, most exported as bulk commodity for blending. A shift to branded packag...
Ethiopia's economy is recovering from the Tigray conflict that cost an estimated $28 billion in damage. FDI is returning, the industrial park programme is resum...
The Democratic Republic of Congo produces 70% of the world's cobalt, powering the global electric vehicle revolution. But artisanal mining conditions, price vol...
South Africa is the world's largest chrome producer, supplying 50 percent of global ferrochrome. Tanzania's new nickel projects and Zimbabwe's chrome are positi...