Africa To Have Six Cities With Over 10 Million Inhabitants by 2035
August 24th, 2024
Via North Africa Post, a report on the continent’s rapidly growing population: Amid a rapid population growth, Africa will count six cities with over 10 million people by 2035, the Economist Intelligence Unit said. With the continent’s population boom, Angola’s capital, Luanda, and Tanzania’s commercial hub, Dar es Salaam, will join the metropolises of Cairo, […]
Read more »The U.S.-Backed Railway Sparking A Battle For African Copper
August 21st, 2024
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a look at how Washington’s support for a minerals train connecting the DRC to the Atlantic illustrates its desire to compete with China: As the US ambassador’s car pulled into a port terminal on Angola’s Atlantic coast last month, the longshoremen queueing for work were ecstatic at the sight of […]
Read more »Africa’s New Railway Age
July 23rd, 2024
Courtesy of The Economist, a look at how Sino-American tensions in Africa are playing out on the tracks: “Every inhabitant of Thiès”, wrote a Senegalese novelist, Ousmane Sembène, in 1960, “depended on the railway.” Like many African cities, Thiès was a product of the continent’s first, colonial-era rail revolution. The French-built railway that ran through it […]
Read more »Copper and Lithium at the Heart of New African Investment
June 18th, 2024
Via The Africa Report, an article on the role of copper and lithium at the heart of new African investment: Recent data confirms copper and lithium as the mineral success stories of the African continent, with new exploration projects concentrated in Central and Southern Africa. With 40 active exploration projects for copper and 19 for […]
Read more »UAE: Dubai Ports World Makes a Play for Africa
May 30th, 2024
Courtesy of The Africa Report, a report on how DP World, the Dubai-based logistics giant, is both a thriving business and a geopolitical soft power tool: From humble beginnings a half-century ago as the local operator of the two-crane operation at Port Rashid, Dubai Ports World has matured into a global logistics powerhouse. It’s also […]
Read more »Angola to Leverage Chinese Investment to Stimulate Oil Production
May 1st, 2024
Via Energy, Capital and Power, a look at Angola’s efforts to leverage Chinese investment to stimulate oil production: China’s state-owned China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) is sending a team of senior executives to Angola to discuss investment opportunities in oil exploration. The move aligns with Angola’s target to increase production to 1.18 million barrels […]
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