Burkina Faso has been plagued by an insurgency for seven years; numerous news outlets have reported that the Russian Private Military Company (PMC), Wagner Group, has been hired to assist them.
The possibility of using Wagner to help Burkina Faso has been the subject of debate for several months, and...
…navigating the waves toward a prosperous continent – the role of political leadership
Agenda 2063 is Africa’s blueprint and master plan for transforming Africa into the global powerhouse of the future. It is the continent’s strategic framework that aims to deliver on its goal for inclusive and sustainable development, and is...
Africa is responsible for only about 4 percent of global emissions, and the continent’s institutional environment impedes investment in green energy. However counterintuitive – if not outrageous – it may sound, wealthy countries should instead consider boosting investment in Africa’s carbon-intensive industries.
Many in the global development community are pushing...
United States officials, at least, are strategically moving to reset multi-dimensional relations with Africa after the last African Leaders’ Summit held in Washington. President Joseph Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris – in well-coordinated working agenda with the White House, the Department of African Affairs, and the U.S. Treasury...
Report calls for bold policy actions to help African economies mitigate compounding risks
L-R: AfDB President Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, Niale Kaba, Minister of Planning and Development of Côte d'Ivoire, and Prof. Kevin Urama, Acting Chief Economist and Vice President at AfDB, at the Abidjan launch of the 2023 Africa's...
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen begins her tour of Senegal, Zambia and South Africa this week, with hopes high on the continent of adding substance to President Joe Biden's comments last month that the US is “all in on Africa's future.” Yellen follows Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang’s tour this...
Headwinds last year hampered post-pandemic recovery
Growth to rebound to 4% in 2023, 2024
Inflation to decline from last year's decade-high
Improvements remain fragile
Africa's economic growth will stabilise at 4% over the next two years, and inflation will slow as the continent rebounds from a pandemic-induced slump and...
Understandably, more than three decades after the Soviet collapse, Russia has few well-trained multipolar-oriented specialists and professionals to work seriously on its diverse policy goals across Africa. As simple as the narratives in several reports, Russians have bitterly complained of an acute shortage of policy-leaders with the necessary adequate...
Industrie du Maroc Magazine is organizing the 5th Edition of the Matinées de l'industrie event, under the central theme of « The water industry: Urgent and future challenges ». This edition will be held on January 24 at the Grand Mogador in Casablanca.
The issue of water resource management has...
The past year has been challenging for Africa. After a hopeful 2021 - during which the continent-wide GDP increased by nearly 7% and every region experienced real growth, the economy slowed in 2022 amid rising inflation, monetary tightening and geopolitical tensions. But it was also a year when African...
