African coffee exports hit a record 1.18 million tonnes in 2024/25 just as the EU Deforestation Regulation prepares to take effect. Rwanda is positioned to keep its EU access, Ethiopia and Uganda face structural risk, and Kenya could lose European market access entirely.
African digital publishing is fragmenting, not consolidating. As advertising wanes, publishers shrink or pivot, while capital drifts to data, events and niche services. Scale offers little refuge; survival now depends on specialisation.
Africa’s AI push is narrower than it appears. Deployment is concentrated in fintech and telecoms, where profits and data drive adoption. Healthcare lags, constrained by fragile funding. AI scales where it boosts revenue and where firms control the data needed to make it work.
Africa bears 26% of the global disease burden, yet produces just 3% of the world's medicines. With 95% of APIs imported, the $27.65B market is a mirage unless pharma manufacturers secure guaranteed demand and local chemical production.
The $19.25B African EdTech boom is misplaced. With 89% learning poverty and 75% unconnected, app-first investment fails 80% of learners. Building EdTech infrastructure is the only way to win.
Africa is now linked to the world’s four fastest-growing trade lanes. However, this rising demand is hitting a wall of vessel congestion and poor transport links. For investors, the real value lies in backing ports that can move cargo quickly from massive ships to the continent’s interior.
U.S. Tariff differential and policy changes are redistributing competitive advantage within African apparel. Kenya is coming out on top, while established manufacturing hubs like Lesotho and Madagascar face potential industrial collapse due to this instability.
Africa has 7% of the world's gamers but makes less than 0.5% of global gaming revenue. The problem isn't the games or the players, it's the payment infrastructure. Most games require credit cards, but 90% of Africans don't have one, making it hard for developers to monetize content.
The amount of money spent on security compared to the risk shows that Africa is dangerously underinvesting. This is especially clear when you consider that 10% of the continent's total economic production (GDP) is lost to cyberattacks every year.
Key Points * South Africa's National Assembly passes bill to criminalize the problem of hate speech and hate crimes. * The bill was introduced five years ago, and opposition parties are against it. * Opposition parties have branded it an "anti-Afrikaner" bill, and that the bill will stifle freedom
The African Union (AU) ejected the Israeli delegation from its meeting in Addis Ababa as the row over Israel's observer status escalated. The AU security agents removed the Israeli delegates from its closed-door meeting as the latter were not properly accredited to attend the meeting. Diplomatic sources privy
France’s Defence Minister has slammed Marvel’s sci-fi movie “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” for what it calls a “false and misleading representation” of French troops. “I strongly condemn this false and misleading representation of our Armed Forces,” French defence minister Sébastien Lecornu tweeted on Sunday. In the franchise’s
A new investigation has revealed that Egyptian police are using dating apps such as Grindr and WhosHere to meet LGTBQ+ people and then arbitrarily arresting them. Police then conduct an unauthorized search on their phones and use the information on their phones to maintain their custody and file charges against
The Mozambican government has been outraged by the repeated attacks on cars with Mozambican national number plates. In the most recent incident, a group of criminals set six Mozambican nationals' vehicles on fire, including a passenger bus carrying 35 people headed for Durban. The attack happened just after traveling
Last Thursday, Canadian press reported that local police in the Greater Toronto Area alleged two suspects, who happen to be Nigerian, sold fake airline tickets which summed up to over half a million dollars. Investigators claimed that in the second half of 2021, the suspects purported themselves to be travel
The governments of Kenya and Tanzania expressed outrage when Netherlands flag carrier KLM Royal Dutch Airlines issued a false travel alert indicating flight disruptions due to a purported civil unrest between the two East African nations. On Saturday, Kenyan Transport Minister Kipchumba Murkomen shared in a statement that he had
