The United Nations has just done something that may appear almost triconsider the map through which it represents itself. There are no armies involved, no borders being redrawn, no territory being transferred from one sovereign state to another. Yet beneath what looks like an obscure cartographic decision lies a question far larger than geography:
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As efforts to expand energy access across Africa grow, experts and policymakers have called this week for greater coordination and investment to power food production with renewables, arguing the sector has been treated separately from energy policy and therefore faces barriers in going green.
United States businessman Joshua Kushner has blamed power struggles within global football for the outrage over FIFA’s plan to sell stakes in the World Cup, admitting his firm “would not have got involved” if it had anticipated the backlash.
A senior delegation from S&P Global Energy will join African Mining Week 2026 in Cape Town from October 14–16, bringing market data, pricing expertise and commercial insights to conversations about the continent’s growing role in global mineral supply. The gathering arrives as demand for lithium, graphite, cobalt, copper, rare earth elements and other strategic materials…
Across the Horn of Africa, geopolitical interests of various countries continue to cause tensions and conflict as part of the growing competition for political influence over the region.
Challenging the prevailing narratives of a ‘rural cloud’, 97.5% of data centers in the USA are situated in cities. Data center siting is driven by local infrastructure and fossil-fuel industrial legacy, which poses substantial challenges to urban livability.
As law and power collide at Hormuz, Europe is being forced to choose between staying above the fray and shaping the rules that govern it
A major fault on Ghana’s national power grid has triggered widespread outages, leaving the capital, Accra, the commercial hub of Kumasi and much of north without electricity.
British power developer Gridworks recently signed two landmark agreements with the Government of Uganda to begin construction on the Amari Project, widely regarded as Africa’s first independent transmission project to reach this phase. It is a milestone that speaks to the growing momentum behind private-sector participation in grid infrastructure and electricity generation on the continent.
