creative Industry
The government of Ghana has finalized arrangements to roll out its updated National Cultural Policy framework, integrating the diaspora-focused “Beyond the Return” initiative into its broader cultural and creative economy strategy.
Events and Conferences
Moving completely away from the patronising language of international aid and boilerplate corporate philanthropy, the assembly rallied around a defensive, highly strategic manifesto: "Africa’s Time, Africa’s Terms: Learning for Sovereignty, Strength, and Solidarity."
African Progress
There is a story that does not get told: like what citizens do, or fail to do, in the spaces that governance, however broken, cannot fully reach. That story is less comfortable. It implicates people who are not in power, who do not control ministries, sign oil contracts, or command police forces.
Governance
A continent that built its post-independence political vocabulary around self-determination is now attempting to codify that self-determination through a legal instrument whose genealogy runs directly to a 2022 gathering in Utah, organised by the US-based Family Watch International.
Finance and Investment
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.
Agriculture
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.
Nature and Sustainability
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.
At the 81st UN General Assembly, African leaders made an argument repeated at every session for years. The continent sits in the Security Council's agenda yet it has no permanent place at its table.
The release of The DPI 50, a global initiative published by Apolitical in partnership with the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on GovTech and Digital Public Infrastructure. Designed to spotlight fifty public-sector leaders delivering measurable, citizen-centered digital systems at scale.
Africa pays for how it is seen. A rating decides what a road, a clinic or a market stall costs to build. Mauritius has launched an agency to look closer. Will anyone in Africa's last mile feel the difference?
Despite giving so much to the world, African nations have spent years relying on external financial aid, loans, and foreign development grants simply to fund domestic budgets. Over the decades, this relationship has evolved from post-colonial aid packages into a complex web of global dependency.
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Technology
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.
health
One of the most significant public health developments this week was the growing momentum behind long-acting HIV prevention injections, with South Africa preparing for what could become one of its most ambitious HIV-prevention campaigns in years.
Governance
Senegalese politics is now at the center of one of the continent’s most closely watched leadership disputes. The fallout between President Bassirou Diomaye Faye and Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko has transformed what was once viewed as a united reform movement into a test of political cohesion ...
creative Industry
African filmmakers and productions received significant international attention during the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, reinforcing the continent’s growing presence within global film and entertainment markets.
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.