The Institutional Financing Question at the Heart of COMESA’s 25th Summit At the 25th Summit of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), held on 1 May 2025 at the New Parliament Building in Harare, Zimbabwe, Kenyan President…
When Satya Prasad, Senior Trade Specialist at the World Bank Group, addressed delegates at the IMO–World Bank Group Workshop on Maritime Single Window and Port Community Systems in Accra, he opened with a disarming observation: procuring software is the easy…
A Structural Gap, Not a Supply Problem The central argument is straightforward: Africa’s failure to deliver assistive technology at scale is not primarily a product shortage. It is a governance failure, rooted in weak public financing frameworks, fragmented health system…
West Africa’s rapid digital integration has outpaced the governance frameworks designed to contain its risks. As firms across Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, and Côte d’Ivoire deepen their reliance on cloud infrastructure, mobile payment networks, and cross-border software platforms, a structural blind…
Kenya’s coffee industry, once among the continent’s most celebrated agricultural export sectors, now faces a structural reckoning that extends well beyond farm-level productivity. At Science Summit Nairobi 2026, organised by Landscape Alliance, researchers, financiers, technology firms, and industry representatives converged…
Ghana’s ability to leverage artificial intelligence as a governance and development instrument depends less on the sophistication of its technology imports than on whether its institutions can bridge the persistent gap between research output and practical implementation. That was the…
Kenya’s emerging social-commerce economy raises a pointed policy question for West Africa: will African economies build the regulatory, payments and trade infrastructure required to capture the value created by this new form of commerce, or will they simply host transactions…
The Policy Question at Stake Kenya’s government has positioned digital services exports as a cornerstone of its economic diversification strategy, training over 1.8 million young people through the Ajira and Jitume programmes and claiming more than 300,000 digital jobs created…
When a listed Ghanaian manufacturer triples its net profit in a single half-year, the figure demands more than a headline. FanMilk Ghana’s 214% jump in net profit to GH¢81.9 million for the six months ending June 2026, set against revenue…
Africa’s financial institutions face a structural reckoning: the tools used to assess creditworthiness are changing faster than the governance frameworks designed to regulate them, and the borrowers of tomorrow bear little resemblance to those the current lending architecture was built…
