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RELEASE DATE: Oct 2026Author: Spherical InsightsSouth Africa has lifted the extra duties it placed on Kenyan tea, coffee, and spices, ending a trade dispute that began over steel tariffs. The move gives Kenya’s tea sector, which sold about 1.7 billion dollars of tea in 2025, a fresh route into one of Africa’s most developed economies.Request…

RELEASE DATE: Oct 2026Author: Spherical InsightsKenya and Rwanda are working together to expand their petroleum efforts. A new shipment of 40,000 tonnes of fuel has started moving through the Northern Corridor. At the same time, Dangote is starting work on a big refinery that will cost 17 billion dollars in Lamu. These two projects could…

The Ecowas Court is a west African regional body located in Abuja, Nigeria, serving the now 12-nation Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas). The court, originally set up to handle economic matters related to the Ecowas Treaty, was given a human rights mandate in 2005. Since then, of the hundreds of cases the court…

O’koko landed on my Instagram ‘For You’ page posing amongst the heaps and mounds that were the Ghanaian landfill in clothing that I assumed he had created himself: tote bags constructed of many discarded bags, jackets covered in a patchwork of pieces of discarded shoes, and sneakers combined to form shoulder bags, for example. Moving…