IHS Towers (NYSE-listed) and American Tower operate over 40,000 cell towers across Africa, providing shared passive infrastructure to MNOs. Tower colocation is...
Zambia's Copperbelt, once the world's leading copper province, is experiencing a renaissance driven by electric vehicle demand, new investment from Chinese and...
Africa's warehousing sector is growing at 15 percent annually, driven by e-commerce fulfilment, FMCG distribution, and pharmaceutical cold chain demands. Grade-...
Ethiopia attracted Chinese footwear manufacturers to its industrial parks in the mid-2010s, but labour relations problems and Chinese near-shoring have challeng...
Africa's processed food market is growing 8 percent annually, driven by urbanisation, rising incomes, and changing dietary preferences. African FMCG companies a...
The World Bank's Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency has underwritten over $15 billion in African investment guarantees, enabling FDI into markets like DRC...
Climate change is restructuring African trade patterns, reducing yields for some crops, creating new opportunities in renewable energy exports, and imposing car...
Ghana has positioned itself as West Africa's automotive assembly hub, attracting investment from Volkswagen, Toyota, Sinotruk, and others. The strategy hinges o...
West Africa produces 50 percent of global raw cashews yet processes under 20 percent domestically, losing $2-4 billion in annual value-added. Cote d'Ivoire, Gha...
Sumitomo Rubber's Dunlop factory in South Africa and Continental's Alexandria plant in Egypt are among the continent's few tyre manufacturers. Growing vehicle f...
Uganda's Lake Albert oil fields, with 6 billion barrels of proven reserves, are targeting first production in 2025 via the East African Crude Pipeline through T...
Impact investors and development finance institutions are deploying blended finance structures that combine grant and concessional capital to crowd in commercia...
COVID-19 exposed Africa's dangerous dependence on imported medicines. Three years later, a continent-wide industrial policy response is bearing fruit, and the a...
Africa produces only 2 percent of the medicines it consumes. Post-COVID commitments from the AU, governments, and development finance institutions are backing a...
Burkina Faso, Mali, and Guinea are significant gold producers alongside Ghana. The Sahel gold belt holds some of the world's most prospective unexplored territo...