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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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...