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By Gerhard Stander, Director, Retail & Agriculture, CHEP Sub Saharan Africa Across South Africa’s baking industry, millions of reusable bread crates move through supply chains every day, transporting products from bakeries to retailers and ultimately to consumers. These crates are a critical but often overlooked component of the country’s food ....
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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 […]
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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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Forcefully displaced people in Africa face numerous challenges, ranging from violence and mental distress to loss, stigma and poverty, and conditions in the camp that limit their access to basic social services like healthcare, food and clean water. This story is written and edited by Global South World The daily life of these vulnerable people is […]
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By Sam Dahya, Head of Investor Services, Custody and Investment Administration, Standard Bank CIB The global move from a fluid trade settlement timeline (Time trade execution to settlement T+3) to a tighter timeline (T+1), is reshaping how markets think about post-trade risk, capital efficiency and competitiveness. A growing share of global activity is now operating […]
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A negotiator returns. A parliament purged. A war without end. Power won: Wadagni takes the presidency in Benin. Guelleh secures a sixth term in Djibouti. Kiir installs his replacements in South Sudan’s parliament the same day he removes the incumbents. Power lost: Speaker Jemma Nunu Kumba is stripped of her role overnight. Malema waits to learn if […]
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At GITEX Africa 2026 in Marrakech, conversations across founders, policymakers, and technology leaders reflected a broader shift taking place across Africa’s digital finance ecosystem, as the focus moves from access alone toward building systems that are more integrated, reliable, and aligned with everyday economic activity. For companies operating in this space, the challenge is no […]
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Speak Up Africa’s 2025 Impact Report, Africa Solves highlights a year in which African leaders, communities, and institutions came together to design and implement locally driven solutions across health, gender equality, sanitation, and innovation. By strengthening political leadership, mobilizing sustainable financing, and amplifying community expertise, Speak Up Africa helped turn commitments into measurable action. This […]
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The debate about gold and bitcoin as competing safe havens misses the point. Both are responding to the same underlying shift – but they hedge different failure modes within it. For decades, the global financial system rested on a single, largely uncontested foundation: the dollar. It functioned as the neutral medium of exchange, the world’s […]
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By Larry Khumalo-MacArthur, Managing Director: Africa at Weber Shandwick In a world where a speech at Davos can alter a business’s balance sheet in Africa, fostering an informed and empowered citizenry is our most critical socioeconomic defence. As we near the end of the first quarter of the year, it feels like so much has […]
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In the sprawling refugee camps of East Africa, a lethal threat is emerging that cannot be solved with food rations or makeshift shelters alone. While the physical scars of war and drought are visible, a “silent crisis” of psychological despair is claiming lives far from the headlines. For the hundreds of thousands residing in places […]
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Hargeisa is a city of particular pride. Its streets are named after battles. Its currency — the Somaliland shilling, accepted nowhere outside its own borders — is printed with images of a freedom the rest of the world has largely refused to formally acknowledge. Since 1991, when Somaliland declared its independence from Somalia after a […]
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By Natalie van Graan Global trade is fast being reshaped by converging forces: tariff fragmentation, geopolitical realignment, energy volatility and an escalating sustainability agenda. This continent has 60 per cent of the world’s best solar resources, critical minerals (copper, cobalt, lithium) for the green economy and a young, growing workforce. How can African businesses build […]
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New BCG report analyses three decades of infrastructure investment across 92 countries, revealing which types of projects deliver the strongest economic growth impact. Infrastructure underpins economic growth, national security, and social progress. Yet countries are taking increasingly divergent paths. Developing countries are investing heavily, while developed economies have seen investment flattening or declining, even as […]
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