Prices for energy, metals, fertilizers, and food are expected to drop in 2025 and 2026, according to the World Bank. Lower global growth and strong oil supply are driving the decline in commodity ...

Burkina Faso’s industrial gold production has declined for three straight years since Nordgold exited its Taparko mine in 2022. Record-high gold prices now drive the government to boost export volumes ...

Perseus Mining took over Tanzania’s future Nyanzaga gold mine through its OreCorp acquisition. The company delayed the project’s final investment decision (FID) to January 2025 before greenlighting ...

Africa’s payment market sees a new partnership between Onafriq and Circle. The deal builds on a trend of stablecoin solutions to reduce FX bottlenecks and enhance payment efficiency. Key challenges ...

The Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZone) secured $8.3 billion in investments for 272 projects between 2022 and March 2025, with significant contributions to industries like renewable energy and ...

Ethiopia launches five-year national project to identify and map all groundwater resources • The country aims to build a reliable database to support future water management and fight recurring ...

Mali directed more than $1.11 billion (CFA641.02 billion) toward its defense sector in 2024, according to a new report from the national budget office. The spending covered nearly all of the CFA650.8 ...

Chad raised CFA34.6 billion ($60 million) from two public securities issues on April 23. • The 26-week Treasury bill sale fell short of expectations, with only 78.4% of the target raised. • Three-year ...

Typical mobile phone use (calls, browsing, apps using mobile data) contributes the most to RF EMF exposure. Wi-Fi and Bluetooth are part of the same electromagnetic spectrum but usually operate at ...

Amazon Web Services partners with Sonatel to launch new infrastructure in Senegal Africa’s cloud market set to surpass $25 billion by 2029, driven by rising digital demand Microsoft, Google, and local ...