Browsing: Infrastructure

A builder’s welcome, a creditor’s grip Roads, dams, mines, fibre-optic networks, stadiums, power plants and industrial zones: across the African continent, China has built a reputation as the partner who shows up and delivers. Beijing lends finances, constructs and inaugurates, and African leaders routinely praise the resulting “Sino-African friendship” at ribbon-cutting ceremonies. Behind that cooperative…

For years, the water sector spoke of an approaching turning point. Awareness of scarcity, climate risk and sustainability grew, but the structural change needed for long‑term resilience lagged behind. Over the past decade, this has shifted. Water is no longer seen only as a utility or environmental issue, but as strategic infrastructure, closely linked to…

Conversations on judicial reform have traditionally centred on vacancies, pendency, case management, technology and budgetary allocations. While these issues remain important, they have largely overshadowed a more immediate question – what is the experience of those who enter courts and tribunals every day? The condition of the physical infrastructure that litigants, lawyers, judges and court…