Nature and Sustainability
Africa holds approximately 9% of the world's freshwater resources yet the continent has spent decades treating water as a crisis to survive rather than a resource to build with. That is changing, and the shift is bigger than most investors, policymakers, and global institutions have yet priced in.
Governance
In recent times, the map of African migration has significantly changed and people moving abroad is no longer just about buying a ticket to London, or New York. These traditional routes are practically restricted, young Africans are now moving along new paths to other powerhouse African countries.
Business
The AfCFTA-Rendeavour partnership moves Africa's continental trade ambitions off paper and into bricks, roads, and economic zones, but the questions of who benefits, who decides, and who bears the risk remain very much open.
Energy
The AFRICA ENERGY TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE - 2026 themed “From Borders to Bridges” , have held conversations on this same matter. Whether the continent can connect its resources to its people, its markets to its industries, and its ambitions to implementation.
health
17 May 2026, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared the ninth PHEIC in the International Health Regulations era. The numbers in the official tally eight confirmed cases against 246 suspected and 80 suspected dead.
creative Industry
The projections defining Africa’s creative economy most notably its trajectory toward a $200 billion valuation by 2030 are frequently covered in the language of inevitability. Recent milestones reinforce this narrative.
Finance and Investment
Africa's financial systems, digital infrastructure and fintech architecture are being designed today. The question nobody is asking loudly enough: are Africans designing these systems, or just building them for someone else?
Finance and Investment
By the third day of the 3i Africa Summit 2026, the conversation had evolved in a way that felt almost inevitable. The summit had arrived at the question that had always been lurking, the one that nobody in a convening of this kind wants to ask: whose Africa is it anyway?
Technology
Forty-six percent, that is the share of African adults who remain entirely outside the formal financial system. Set it alongside the headline numbers the $2 trillion in mobile money transactions, the 66% share of global mobile money value and what you get is not a success story.
Finance and Investment
Africa’s ambition to build a fully integrated digital economy is gaining renewed momentum as governments, regulators and industry leaders intensify efforts to harmonise systems, reduce cross-border transaction costs and strengthen digital infrastructure to unlock continental trade.
health
Ghana became one of the more high-profile withdrawals when talks over a proposed $109 million, five-year US aid package collapsed after Washington allegedly demanded access to Ghanaian citizens' personal data.
Finance and Investment
Less than 30% of SMEs across the continent maintain digital financial records, not because the information does not exist, but because it remains scattered, unstructured, and largely invisible to machines.