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By Michelle Gavin No one expects a great deal of focus on Africa policy from the incoming Trump administration. But the Africa portfolio in 2025 will present ample opportunities to assert or decline U.S. leadership, to protect or endanger U.S. interests, and to align with or oppose African societies. The peace and security agenda is particularly fraught. Instability […]
...By Samaila Zubairu: President and Chief Executive Officer of the Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) “The railroad in America was the first great economic revolution,” wrote the historian Henry Adams, describing how rail opened up new industries and vast resources. Today, Africa is at the precipice of a similarly seismic transformation, with rail projects such as the Lobito Corridor poised […]
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