Changing the narrative on Africa.
African cities are reclaiming degraded land, restoring wetlands and turning waste into resources to improve urban life. As populations grow, these efforts offer ways to build more liveable, resilient cities.
In Nigeria’s southeastern city of Enugu, a photographer, a retired coal worker and a technology advocate see different possibilities for the place they call home. Their visions meet around one question: how can a city build its future while keeping its soul?
South African designer Shaakira Jassat has developed a water-harvesting system inspired by one of the Namib Desert’s smallest and most resourceful survivors. After successful pilots in South Africa and the Netherlands, the technology is moving from design experiment towards commercial production.
African electricity systems are moving beyond state-owned utility models as governments increasingly rely on private capital to build new generation, storage, and grid infrastructure. This is creating more diversified power markets while redefining the role of utilities across the continent.
Zimbabwe’s latest export of locally processed lithium sulphate from the Arcadia project, following tightened restrictions on unprocessed mineral exports, underscores its shift into processing. The development positions the country as an early test case for Africa’s broader push to capture more value from critical minerals through domestic beneficiation.
African governments are increasingly exploring alternative ways to finance infrastructure, moving beyond conventional external borrowing toward capital-market instruments, pooled investment vehicles, and domestically anchored funds. Policymakers and market participants say the shift reflects tighter debt constraints, rising currency risks, and a policy push to mobilise long-term local capital for transport, energy, and social infrastructure while reducing reliance on foreign-currency loans.
As countries around the world push to forge strategic partnerships to advance their nuclear power goals, Africa’s critical role is expanding. Several African governments have
Africa is setting the terms for the new scramble for its minerals by pooling regional strengths and mobilizing capital. Several nations are tightening export rules,
Rwanda-born Zipline, famed for delivering blood and vaccines across Africa, is now dropping burritos in Texas for the American fast-food chain, Chipotle. Bonface Orucho, bird
Mercedes-Benz is partnering with Senegal to build a truck assembly plant by 2026. The project is part of Dakar’s wider industrial strategy to create jobs,