Water systems in Sub-Saharan Africa are increasingly in crisis. Growing populations and expanding economies are relentlessly driving rising demands. Like the Red Queen in Through the Looking Glass, water suppliers must run faster and faster just to stay in the same place. Instead, they are falling behind. Seven in ten people living south of the…
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In Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, the public water utility Regideso delegates the management of drinking water mini-networks to user associations. In Senegal, recent legislation facilitates the creation of housing cooperatives. In Tanzania, partnerships with the World Bank have helped make it one of the African countries mapping the largest number of buildings on the…
LaLiga and Upstream announce their new exclusive partnership to bring the fan-focused online portal, LaLiga Premium, to Sub-Saharan Africa mobile phone users. Upstream is a global marketing technology company, while LaLiga is home to LaLiga Santander and LaLiga Smartbank, the first and second professional divisions of Spanish football. The Spanish league hosts the globally popular…
On 17 February 2026, ICSID published its report on cases registered in 2025. This report revealed that a record number of cases were filed against states in Sub-Saharan Africa. Indeed, ICSID’s statistics indicate that 15 cases were registered against these states (ICSID Caseload – 2026-1 Report), constituting almost a quarter of all ICSID cases registered in…
The rise and vibrancy of Global South agendas are redefining traditional dynamics and alliances on the African continent. This chapter examines how African agency is changing thanks to diversified opportunities in a multipolar landscape; and, in this context, how the EU -caught between the rhetoric of partnership and the persistence of old asymmetries- faces the…
How likely is it that a 15-year-old girl will eventually die from a pregnancy-related cause?
The padel fever that has transformed South African suburbs over the last three years is about to graduate from a weekend hobby to a high-stakes professional industry. In a landmark move for the sport on the continent, Pretoria has been confirmed as the host city for a P2-status tournament on the Qatar Airways Premier Padel…
The Africa Pulse report, released on Tuesday, October 7, projects regional growth to reach 3.8% in 2025, up from an earlier forecast of 3.5%
Economic wellbeing topped a list of concerns in sub-Saharan Africa, a new Gallup survey found. Anxiety about the cost of food and other basic needs supersede worries about political, governance, and security issues
In L’économie africaine 2026 (La Découverte, 128 pages), authors Serge Rabier (AFD), John F. May(George Mason University, United States), and Aristide Romaric Bado (National Center for Scientific and Technological Research, Burkina Faso) analyze the rapid demographic growth expected in Africa over the course of the 21st century
