China has long projected an image of invincibility in the global critical minerals race. Its refineries process the lion’s share of the world’s battery metals, its companies operate mines from the DRC to Indonesia, and its state-backed enterprises have locked up offtake agreements across Africa and Latin America for decades. Yet a landlocked African country’s […]
An International Monetary Fund team touched down in Nairobi on February 24, 2026, formally opening what could be one of the most consequential economic negotiations Kenya has undertaken in years. The staff mission, scheduled to run until March 4, is tasked with laying the groundwork for a successor lending arrangement after Kenya’s previous $3.6 billion […]
For decades, Switzerland has worn its low unemployment rate as a badge of economic honour — a symbol of the country’s enviable combination of skilled labour, industrial precision, and political neutrality. That image is now quietly fraying. The country’s unemployment rate has risen for the second consecutive year, and the forces driving it upward — […]
Zimbabwe has thrown the global lithium supply chain into uncertainty with a sweeping, immediate suspension of all raw mineral and lithium concentrate exports, announced on February 25, 2026. The ban — indefinite in duration and applying even to shipments already in transit — marks the most aggressive step Harare has taken in its years-long push […]
When President William Ruto met with EU Ambassador to Kenya Henriette Geiger at State House on February 24, 2026, the setting was familiar but the stakes were higher than ever. The two sides have been deepening a commercial relationship that, measured in raw trade volumes, already makes the European Union Kenya’s most important export market […]
In the space of four days, the United States experienced one of the most turbulent episodes in its modern trade policy history. The Supreme Court struck down the cornerstone of President Donald Trump’s tariff regime; Trump responded with fury, announcing a replacement levy within hours; threatened to raise it higher over the weekend; and on […]
Just three years after Ghana was forced to enter a debt restructuring programme and watched its currency collapse, its inflation spike to record highs, and its credit ratings reduced to default territory, the country has crossed a milestone that would have been unthinkable at the height of the crisis: a gross domestic product (GDP) exceeding […]
After more than a decade of false starts, political delays and the successive exits of global energy majors, Kenya’s Turkana oil project is edging closer to reality. Gulf Energy E&P BV has secured a KSh 1.94 billion ($15 million) onshore drilling rig from the United Arab Emirates, marking the most significant operational step yet toward […]
The fragile edifice of transatlantic trade diplomacy trembled on Monday as the European Parliament halted the ratification of the landmark Turnberry Deal with the United States — a sweeping bilateral trade agreement struck at a Scottish golf resort last July. The dramatic pause came in the immediate aftermath of a landmark 6-3 Supreme Court ruling […]
Africa’s most consequential green investment forum has opened its doors in Cape Town today, as policymakers, financiers, and project developers from across the continent converge on the Century City Conference Centre for the fourth edition of Africa’s Green Economy Summit (AGES). Running from February 24 to 27, 2026, and held under the theme “From Ambition […]
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