For decades, the Nigerian and South African music scenes have enjoyed a creative bonanza despite the tensions between their countries. From “Coolest Kid in Africa” and “Soweto Baby” to the more recent “Isaka,” the exchange has become almost instinctive. Last year, Ciza, Thukuthela and JAZZWRLD brought Tems and Omah Lay onto the remix of “Isaka,”…
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Africa has spent decades lowering tariffs, building regional institutions and negotiating market access, but trade has delivered far less structural transformation than its scale might suggest. The continent’s challenge is increasingly not whether it trades, but whether its economies are connected deeply enough for trade to generate manufacturing, productivity gains and jobs.
Power can be seductive, and many who possess it want to hold on for as long as possible. The leaders of China and Russia, for example, cleared the way for additional terms years ago, and in the United States, the president occasionally speaks of another run for office, even though the US Constitution does not allow…
Tournament winner to directly qualify for the ICC U19 Women’s T20 World Cup 2027, joining South Africa as the continent’s representatives
Africa’s Great Green Wall is entering a new phase as governments and development partners look beyond individual restoration projects and work toward a continent-wide investment platform capable of rebuilding degraded landscapes, creating jobs and strengthening communities against climate shocks. At COP-17 of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification in Ulaanbaatar, the African Development Bank committed…
The Kingdom of Morocco, led by Africa’s wealthiest monarch, has achieved a historic trading milestone with India, the third-largest economy in Asia. Bilateral commerce between the two nations has risen from $2.9 billion in 2021 to a substantial $4.4 billion.
On August 24, 2026, top investment officials from Egypt met with the Indian Ambassador in Cairo to discuss expanding economic and investment cooperation between the two nations.
Ports may be the gateway to global trade, but South Africa’s economic reach depends on the corridors that connect them to inland and regional markets
Across sub-Saharan Africa, welfare does not begin and end with government programmes. Families, savings groups, burial societies, labour-sharing networks, women’s organisations, religious institutions and customary systems routinely help people navigate illness, unemployment, bereavement, financial stress and other shocks. However, much of this architecture remains peripheral to formal social-policy design, even as formal social protection reaches…
Africa’s economic pressures are uneven: while debt and instability weigh on some economies, others are building industrial capacity and regional value chains, creating new opportunities for India
