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Securing a reliable supply of life's most precious commodity - water - has long been challenging across large parts of the African continent.
But the situation will almost certainly worsen in the years to come as droughts become increasingly frequent and severe. Crises in other parts of the world provide a warning for Africa. In Iran, for example, officials have war...
For decades, Africa's energy future has been discussed, debated - and too often decided - in rooms where African voices were secondary. Policies were designed abroad, narratives shaped by institutions far removed from the continent's realities and strategies imposed with little regard for the lived experience of hundreds of millions of Africans.
Yet with 600m peopl...
Papa Madiaw Ndiaye: "Africa must build itself, by itself, and for itself." With these powerful words, Ecobank's co-founder Gervais Koffi Djondo did more than articulate a vision - he ignited a continental call to action. And as Nelson Mandela reminded us, "It always seems impossible until it is done."
Tonight, we gather here in Lomé, the cr...
The upside is real. Africa is becoming the world's largest source of new workforce entrants; critical minerals remain a critical opportunity; and there is a significant pool of under-utilised African capital. But two risks still set the terms for everything else: expensive financing and political instability. The five dynamics described below frame the 2026 outlook in practic...
Africa holds about 30% of global mineral reserves and nearly 40% of the world's gold. Yet extractive economic models rooted in colonial-era practices continue to funnel this wealth to a narrow elite and foreign investors, leaving the vast majority of Africans excluded from the riches beneath their feet.
Mamadou Toure, founder and chief executive of the Ubuntu Tribe...
