Long reads on African history, governance, economics, culture, and what comes next.
Zimbabwe holds the second-largest platinum group metals (PGM) reserve globally after South Africa, concentrated in the Great Dyke geological formation running north-south through the central Mashonaland West and …
Kenya's dairy sector is one of the more revealing case studies in African agribusiness consolidation. The Kenya Cooperative Creameries (KCC), founded in 1925 as a settler-farmer cooperative, was …
The Arab Maghreb Union (UMA), founded in February 1989 by Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Mauritania, has not held a Heads of State summit since 1994. The Morocco-Algeria …
African sovereign Eurobond issuance recovered substantially in 2024 after the 2022–2023 drought, with Côte d'Ivoire, Benin, Kenya, and Senegal returning to international capital markets. The yield curve that …
The African Continental Free Trade Area entered force on 1 January 2021. The launch narrative — a single market of 1.3 billion people, $3.4 trillion in combined GDP, …
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) operates the import-tariff regime that interacts with the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) state-monopoly framework to determine the effective price of maize at Zimbabwean …
In August 2019 the Buhari administration closed Nigeria's land borders with Benin, Niger, Cameroon, and Chad. The closures lasted, formally, until December 2020 — though the easing was …
On 26 July 2023 the Niger Presidential Guard detained Mohamed Bazoum and announced the Conseil National pour la Sauvegarde de la Patrie. ECOWAS responded with the most aggressive …
Moussa Faki Mahamat completed his second four-year term as African Union Commission Chairperson in March 2025, after eight years that included the formal AfCFTA launch, the Common African …
Two regional intellectual-property organisations cover most of the African continent. The Organisation Africaine de la Propriété Intellectuelle (OAPI) covers 17 mostly francophone states. The African Regional Intellectual Property …
Ghana's Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) programme, launched as a national policy in 1999 after the Navrongo pilot work in the late 1990s, is the principal mechanism …
In 2011 the Moroccan constitution made Tamazight — the umbrella name for Berber/Amazigh languages — an official language alongside Arabic. In 2016 the Algerian constitution did the same. …