Egypt’s $27 Billion Desert Dream: Talaat Moustafa Unveils ‘The Spine’ – A New City for a New Era
Hisham Talaat Moustafa stood before a bank of cameras on April 18 and declared he was building “the spinal cord of a modern economy.” His company, Talaat Moustafa Group, one of Egypt’s largest real-estate developers, has unveiled plans for a $27 billion (1.4 trillion Egyptian pounds) mixed-use city east of the capital. Dubbed “The Spine,” […]
Donors Kickstart Global Financing Facility Investment Round To Accelerate Reductions In Maternal And Child Deaths
New commitments mark a strong start – with over 80 percent raised towards the 2026 goal The Global Financing Facility for Women, Children and Adolescents (GFF) announced today – on the sidelines of the World Bank Group-IMF Spring Meetings – new funding commitments from governments and philanthropic partners totaling USD 806 million in support of its TRANSFORM 2030 strategy, a five-year plan to accelerate progress towards ending preventable maternal and child deaths in countries with the highest burden. These pledges mark the beginning of the GFF’s new investment round, and come at a decisive moment with the tools, evidence and partnerships in place to […]
Silent Killers in the Rubble: Sudanese Deminers Wage a Different War in Shattered Khartoum
The war has rolled on to other battlefields, but the bombs it left behind still wait patiently in the capital’s ruined streets. In eastern Khartoum’s Burri neighbourhood, authorities recently sealed off an area after an explosion blamed on a landmine triggered by burning waste. Sudanese deminers in bright orange vests moved in, probing the debris […]
From Paris Firebrand to Pretoria Courtroom: Kemi Seba’s High-Stakes Bid for Asylum
Kemi Seba never travels light. The 45-year-old French-born Beninese activist, whose real name is Stellio Gilles Robert Capo Chichi, was arrested on April 13 at a shopping centre in Pretoria alongside his 18-year-old son and a local facilitator allegedly paid to spirit them across the border into Zimbabwe. Police found more than 315,000 rand ($19,200) […]
Beyond Payments: How Institutional-Grade Digital Asset Infrastructure Is Redefining Access To Digital Markets
For decades, moving value across African borders has meant navigating a fragmented web of correspondent banking networks, multiple intermediaries, and layered currency conversions – a system that costs African businesses an estimated $5 billion annually in inefficiencies.[1] The problem has never been a lack of commercial intent. It has been infrastructure. That infrastructure problem is now […]
$50 Million in South African Rare Earths Despite Trump’s Aid Freeze and Pretoria’s Ire
PHALABORWA, South Africa – Two enormous grey-white dunes of phosphogypsum tower over the old phosphate plant here in Limpopo province, relics of decades of mining that once fed fertilizer plants across the region. Today, those same waste stacks hold something far more valuable: 35 million tons of material rich in rare earth elements, the invisible […]
The Global Economy Could Split In Very Different Directions By 2050
Research from the BCG Henderson Institute Details Four Plausible Scenarios for the World over the Next 25 Years, Based on Analysis of More Than 100 Megatrends and a Century of Historical Data The global economy could follow markedly different paths over the next 25 years. For business leaders, the challenge is how to make decisions […]
Ethiopian star channels national discontent in viral track
In a country where criticizing those in power carries real consequences, Ethiopia’s most beloved musician has done it anyway—loudly and to millions of listeners. Teddy Afro’s new song “Das Tal,” meaning “put up the tent,” references a traditional mourning ritual to grieve what he describes as a lost Ethiopia. Since its debut, the track has […]
Inside Lagos’s deepening housing crisis
Lagos, Africa’s magnetic financial hub, is reaching a breaking point as a severe housing shortage of 3.4 million units drives rents to astronomical heights. As a result, residents face exhausting daily trade-offs between affordability and quality of life. For many professionals, these trade-offs take the form of four-hour commutes from neighboring towns, where rent is […]
Congo’s prime minister resigns ahead of government reshuffle
The Republic of Congo’s prime minister, Anatole Collinet Makosso, has submitted his resignation along with that of the entire Cabinet. The cabinet’s departure is a standard constitutional formality that allows the long-serving President, who has been in power for over four decades, to appoint a fresh government team. Makosso, who had served as prime minister […]
