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.
Business
The overwhelming majority of capital raised by African startups over the past decade has been structured through holding companies domiciled outside of Africa. Typically, in Delaware, Mauritius, or the Cayman Islands. The innovation is African, but the architecture is not.
Technology
At the launch of Ghana's National Artificial Intelligence Strategy in Accra, President John Dramani Mahama announced the $250 million investment to establish a world-class AI computing center, alongside a $20 million commitment for a short-to-medium term implementation.
Technology
At recent gatherings where Africa's financial technology future has been debated, including the Africa Fintech Summit held in Washington D.C., one theme cut through the noise with unusual clarity: the continent is no longer building fintech as a sector. It is building fintech as infrastructure.
African Progress
What kind of Africa was being built before the ships came? And what does it actually mean for Africa to develop? They sit underneath the reparations debate. You cannot make the case for repair without understanding what was lost, and what building truly means.
Governance
Every year, the world pours more than $2 trillion into weapons, armies, and military equipment, while children go unschooled, hospitals lack equipment, and the world burns. If we keep choosing weapons over schools, then what we pass on is a world more unequal, and unstable than the one we received.
Governance
Over the course of four centuries, ~12.5 million Africans were forcibly transported through the transatlantic slave trade, making enslavement a brutal reality for millions. In a vote, 123 countries at the UN formally declared the transatlantic slave trade the gravest crime against humanity
The government of Ghana announced that the renewal of the Tarkwa mining lease held by Gold Fields would not be automatic and would instead be subjected to a stricter review process.
Across the continent, unreliable or nonexistent power continues to limit agricultural productivity, weaken value chains, and constrain industrial growth. This reality placed energy access at the center of discussions during the African Development Bank Annual Meetings.
Across Africa’s financial landscape, capital is increasingly being judged not only by returns, but by resilience, governments, and development institutions are now paying closer attention to how money flows into projects that can withstand climate shocks, energy transitions, and long-term pressures.
Investment in data centers emerged as one of Africa’s most important technology stories this week, reflecting growing demand for the infrastructure powering the continent’s digital economy.
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Nature and Sustainability
By focusing on local women’s participation in tourism value chains, the programme aims to boost incomes in forest‑adjacent communities and strengthen the link between conservation and sustainable livelihoods.
Finance and Investment
South Africa is actively exploring alternative energy suppliers as persistent tensions in the Middle East push global oil prices higher and create uncertainty over supply routes. In parallel, Rwanda is advancing its nuclear energy ambitions as a long-term solution to domestic energy needs.
Agriculture
Kenya’s government and private sector have continued to attract significant investment interest in agriculture, underscoring the sector’s central role in the country’s economic growth strategy.
Governance
A political controversy has emerged in Ghana following claims by opposition figures that the government may have foregone an opportunity to secure the presidency of the ECOWAS Commission.
Technology
The GSMA has highlighted several African markets including Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda as priority markets in efforts to expand access to affordable 4G smartphones and reduce the continent’s digital usage gap.