Africa Can Host Factories Without Owning Industrial Capability
Economy

Africa Can Host Factories Without Owning Industrial Capability

A Development Reimagined essay argues that FDI and job counts measure activity, not capability, and that African governm...

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AfCFTA Seals $3.1 Billion Pact to Digitise African Customs
Logistics

AfCFTA Seals $3.1 Billion Pact to Digitise African Customs

The African Continental Free Trade Area has signed a 20-year, $3.1 billion concession with Bergmans Security to deploy d...

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Okonjo-Iweala: Africa Must Act Now as Global Trade Reaches Record $34.7 Trillion
Economy

Okonjo-Iweala: Africa Must Act Now as Global Trade Reaches Record $34.7 Trillion

WTO chief and Nigeria’s central bank governor warn that Africa risks losing a historic chance to reshape its economic fu...

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Nigeria, South Africa Can Weather New US Tariffs, but Export Diversification Now Urgent
Economy

Nigeria, South Africa Can Weather New US Tariffs, but Export Diversification Now Urgent

Economists say America’s latest Section 301 tariffs will have a limited direct hit on Nigeria and South Africa because k...

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Africa's Next Infrastructure Wave: Energy and Transport First, Then Manufacturing
Economy

Africa's Next Infrastructure Wave: Energy and Transport First, Then Manufacturing

SeedTree Capital’s Bowale Odumade says energy and transport will drive Africa’s infrastructure decade, with $2 trillion ...

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