Zimbabwe Plans New National Capital
February 5th, 2023
Via Bloomberg, a report that Zimbabwe’s leader is seeking investment for a new national capital with luxury homes just down the road from an impoverished and overcrowded Harare: Zimbabwe’s political leaders have a remedy for the collapse of the capital Harare: Build a new “cybercity” with as much as $60 billion of other people’s money. The […]
Read more »China and Ethiopia: The Addis Light Train Stuck in Slow Motion
February 3rd, 2023
Via The Diplomat, a look at Sub-Saharan Africa’s first inner-city tram project which – hailed as historic in 2015 – faces more problems than ever seven years later: The Addis Ababa Light Rail Train (AALRT), sub-Saharan Africa’s first inner-city tram project, was hailed as an exemplary infrastructure development in 2015 and a ground-breaking step forward for […]
Read more »South Sudan: The World’s Newest Country Is Broken and Forgotten. Enter Pope Francis.
February 3rd, 2023
Courtesy of The New York Times, an article on how the soaring hopes at South Sudan’s creation in 2011 have been cruelly dashed: It is just over a decade since the steamy capital of South Sudan exploded in joy, with revelers singing and dancing through the night to mark the birth of their nation as it split […]
Read more »Once The Promise of Hope in Haiti, Textile Parks Laying Off Thousands
February 3rd, 2023
Via the Miami Herald, an article on the continuing challenges of building businesses in Haiti: The Korean textile company that for a decade anchored the United States’ largest investment in a post-earthquake Haiti is downsizing — and eliminating thousands of jobs. Sae-A Trading Co., which operates as S&H Global inside the Caracol Industrial Park in […]
Read more »TotalEnergies CEO To Visit Mozambique To Discuss LNG Restart
February 3rd, 2023
Via The Africa Report, report on TotalEnergies efforts to restart its Mozambique LNG project: The head of French energy giant TotalEnergies is expected this week to visit Mozambique, where a multi-billion-dollar gas project has been on hold since a 2021 jihadist attack. CEO Patrick Pouyanne is to fly to the southern African nation to discuss conditions […]
Read more »US Opens Embassy in Solomon Islands to Counter China
February 3rd, 2023
Via AP News, a report on U.S. efforts to re-engage Solomon Islands to counter China: The United States opened an embassy in the Solomon Islands on Thursday in its latest move to counter China’s push into the Pacific. The embassy in the capital, Honiara, is starting small, with a chargé d’affaires, a couple of State […]
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