Tag: Africa
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🇿🇲 Zambia Draws a Line: $1.5 Billion U.S. Health Deal Stripped of Data and Minerals Clauses
Zambia has signed a five-year, $1.5 billion U.S. health financing agreement after negotiating the removal of controversial biological-specimen and patient-data provisions and separating health cooperation from critical-minerals negotiations.
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🇬🇭 B2B Trade Could Become Africa’s Next Stablecoin Frontier
Stablecoins could become a major settlement tool for African businesses, with B2B trade potentially overtaking remittances as a key driver of adoption. GSN chief Ryan Kirkley says FX liquidity, correspondent banking and regulation will determine whether digital dollars can deliver real savings.
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🇬🇧 UK Welcomes Airtel Money’s London Stock Exchange Debut
Airtel Money has begun conditional trading on the London Stock Exchange at a valuation of approximately £5.3 billion, marking a major milestone for Africa’s digital financial services sector and strengthening London’s position as a gateway for African-focused investment.
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🇪🇷 Eritrea’s Red Sea Moment: How the Iran War Is Bringing a Once-Isolated Nation Into the Geopolitical Spotlight
Eritrea is emerging from decades of international isolation as the Iran war increases the strategic importance of the Red Sea. With roughly 1,000 kilometers of coastline, access to Massawa and Assab, and growing tensions with Ethiopia, Asmara is gaining new geopolitical significance at the crossroads of Africa, the Middle East and global maritime trade.
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🇬🇭 Africa’s Organised Crime Index 2025: 23 Countries Face High Criminality and Weak Resilience
The 2025 Africa Organised Crime Index finds that organised crime has expanded across the continent since 2019 while resilience has weakened. Twenty-three African countries face the combination of high criminality and low resilience, with financial crime, trafficking, resource crime, counterfeit goods and arms trafficking among the continent’s most pervasive criminal markets.
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🇸🇾 🇧🇫 The Irony of Mainstream Media: Who Gets Called a President, and Who Gets Called a Junta Leader?
Two BBC headlines describing political leaders in Syria and Burkina Faso raise a broader question about how mainstream media frames power: why are some leaders primarily presented through institutional titles while others are defined by the circumstances of their rise to power?
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🇮🇳 India-Meta Showdown: Parliament Demands Zuckerberg Apology After Modi Video Removed
A temporary removal of a Narendra Modi video from Facebook has triggered a confrontation between India’s parliamentary technology committee and Meta, with lawmakers demanding a personal apology from Mark Zuckerberg and warning that Meta could face the loss of safe-harbour protection.
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🇨🇩🇨🇳 DR Congo’s Copper Market Shifts as U.S. Imports Rise and China’s Share Changes
Record U.S. copper imports from the Democratic Republic of Congo are changing the country’s export mix as China remains a major buyer but its share declines.
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🇱🇷 🇸🇴 🇨🇩 Africa Has a Seat at the Table — But Not a Permanent One
Africa has three elected members on the UN Security Council in 2026, but no permanent seat or veto. As African leaders renew calls for reform, the debate is increasingly focused on whether the global security system still reflects the geopolitical realities of the 21st century.
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🇬🇭 FOUNDERS’ DAY | 21 SEPTEMBER
Today, we remember Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah—not simply for the day he was born, but for the vision he helped place at the heart of Africa’s modern story: Africa must determine its own future. On Founders’ Day, we honour a legacy of independence, African unity and self-determination—and reflect on what that vision asks of us…