AFRICA

  COMMENT | Yang Dingdu & Li Zhuoqun – Xinhua | China’s announcement of zero-tariff treatment starting May 1 for all the 53 African countries with which it maintains diplomatic ties reaffirms its consistent commitment to opening its vast market to Global South partners. As Chinese President Xi Jinping has …

  OPINION | URN | Across Africa, education is often framed as the continent’s most powerful lever for development. It is positioned as the pathway out of poverty, the foundation of economic growth, and the engine of social mobility. But this narrative assumes that schools are functioning as they should. In …

  As Congolese philosopher Valentin-Yves Mudimbe famously argued, Africa has often been constructed as an object of knowledge rather than a subject producing it   ARTS | CHRISTOPHE PREMAT | Who counts as an intellectual? In many traditions, the figure of the intellectual is tied to the search for truth, social critique …

Kampala, Uganda | NEWS CORRESPONDENT |  Ambassador Col. (Rtd.) Fred Mwesigye, Uganda’s High Commissioner to Tanzania, has called for the urgent alignment of policies between East African nations to solidify the regional energy corridor and ensure First Oil serves as a catalyst for industrialization. Speaking Wednesday during the 11th Oil …

    Although African countries have made commendable progress in establishing human and animal health reporting platforms, these systems still operate largely in silos   COMMENT | DR SAMUEL KAHARIRI |  What comes to mind when you think about public health threats? Perhaps you picture hospital wards, busy emergency rooms, …

BEIJING | Xinhua | China, with its newly announced zero-tariff policy for African countries and its supersized market, will provide Africa with new development opportunities and help African countries navigate the current global economic turbulence, according to Chinese authorities. The Ministry of Commerce said in a statement on Wednesday that …

    Each of the eight partner states is expected to contribute approximately US$7 million to fund the bloc’s operations   COMMENT | NICODEMUS MINDE | The East African Community is one of Africa’s oldest regional economic organisations. Its birth in 1967 was the culmination of decades of economic ties forged in the …

Institutional investors are driving much of the growth in domestic capital. Pension and insurance assets have now surpassed $1 trillion for the first time Nairobi, Kenya | THE INDEPENDENT |  Africa’s domestic capital has grown to a point where it now exceeds external financing flows, marking a shift in how …

The continent loses between 2% and 5% of its gross domestic product each year due to climate-related shocks Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A new push to finance climate-resilient infrastructure in Africa has gained momentum, after a major development bank committed funding to a continent-wide investment vehicle. The Development …

The new office will function as a regional hub for East Africa, placing AFC closer to governments, investors and private sector actors involved in cross-border infrastructure and industrialisation efforts Nairobi, Kenya | THE INDEPENDENT | Nigerian-based Africa Finance Corporation has signed an agreement with the Kenyan government to open its …