The Dangote refinery in Nigeria offers a reminder that African ambition can materialise when the enabling environment and project size meet. AfCFTA’s promise is to replicate Dangote-like transformative industries across the continent across multiple sectors.
An interconnected world has rendered us interdependent but also vulnerable to shock across economic geographies, forcing distinct national responses
US President Donald Trump warned members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard to lay down their arms or face ‘certain death’.
But the country also has its weaknesses
With no representation on the island in the Persian Gulf, South Africans stranded in Bahrain say they are in the dark about plans to get them home. The group of 13 have to rely on the repatriation efforts by diplomatic authorities in nearby Saudi Arabia. But, like their fellow South Africans in Saudi, they have […]