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As African cities experience some of the fastest urban growth rates in the world, China has become a major bilateral financier for urban infrastructure. From Nairobi’s elevated expressways to Lagos’s airport upgrades and Addis Ababa’s new riverside developments, Chinese-backed projects are transforming skylines and daily life across the continent. I study China’s economic engagements in […]
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South Africa’s engineering and construction sector employs over 1.36 million people, making it one of the largest employers in the country. Yet this sector has been under sustained pressure for nearly a decade, with consequences that have fundamentally reshaped how risks emerge and materialise on construction sites. This is according to Nathan Barker, Head of […]
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On a Tuesday morning in April 2026, a young woman named Fatima stood on the rooftop observatory of a building that hadn’t existed when she was born — not really, not in any completed sense. For eight years, she had watched it grow from the right bank of the Bouregreg River in Salé, a 55-storey […]
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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,” […]
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Op-Ed By Samaila Zubairu, President and CEO, Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) Africa has decided to build its future now, not later—moving from potential to prosperity. Across the continent, governments are acting with greater clarity and intent to develop the infrastructure systems that will underpin industrialisation, trade, and long-term resilience. What is unfolding is not isolated progress. […]
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Kenya has launched a National Infrastructure Fund to tackle a crippling $2.1 billion annual infrastructure financing gap—a bold move for a country already spending 71% of government revenue on debt servicing. The fund will pursue public-private partnerships, privatization proceeds, and institutional capital to finance roads, energy, and ports without deepening the public debt burden. However, […]
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Standard Bank processed one of the largest payment volumes on the African continent, moving more than R164 trillion in payments in 2025, across its 20 million clients and correspondent‑banking relationships. This scale means that every single minute, over R300 million flows through the bank’s infrastructure. This highlights Standard Bank’s central role in the financial circulatory […]
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Contributed by In On Africa (IOA) Analysis in brief: The closure of the Strait of Hormuz in March 2026 signalled the wisdom and foresight of African port infrastructure investment, which has shifted from capacity expansion to strategic resilience. This has been noted in not only ports but also in transportation hubs like airports, rail systems and from […]
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ESI Africa releases the definitive 2026 Finance&Investment Industry Insights Volume to navigate Africa’s infrastructure transition and South Africa’s R4.2 trillion funding gap. The report, Finance&Investment Industry Insights Volume 1 2026, provides a strategic roadmap for investors, utilities, and policymakers navigating funding of the continent’s infrastructure landscape. As African economies face macroeconomic stress from global geopolitical […]
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The visit paid on Wednesday 18 March 2026 in Abuja, Nigeria, by the Commissioner for Infrastructure, Energy and Digitalisation of the African Union Commission, Ms Lerato Mataboge, to the President of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission, Dr Omar Alieu Touray, provided an opportunity for the two leaders to review inter-institutional cooperation […]
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