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Africa’s Electricity Demand Surged In 2025

Electricity demand growth accelerated in Africa, rising 5.2% last year from 4% in 2024, an International Energy Agency report found. Improved electricity supply in South...

Powerful People Named in the Epstein files, from Elon Musk Who Has Business In Liberia to Former Prince Andrew

From tech titans to Wall Street power brokers and foreign dignitaries, a who's who of powerful men make appearances in the huge trove of documents released...

US Overhauling Aid Strategy to Dislodge China From Africa’s Key Sector

The Trump administration is overhauling how it handles aid to Africa with an aim towards dislodging China from “priority” sectors in the region —...

Nigeria to Try 16 Military Officers Accused of Coup Plot

Nigerian military authorities are set to try more than a dozen officers over allegations that they planned to overthrow the government last year, capping...

How West Africa’s Medieval Gold Road Shows a Path For Free Trade

This week I moderated a conversation about the three great West African empires of the medieval period between 1100-1500 AD: Ghana, Mali, and Songhai,...

Trump’s Tariff Threats Hit Markets From Cars to Credit

European shares tumbled from a near-record high, while credit risk gauges rose after Donald Trump reignited the trade war between the US and Europe,...

Jobs Creation Must Be Top of African Leaders’ Agenda

Job creation sits atop the agenda of priorities for African leaders. The Brookings Institution’s latest Foresight Africa report puts the issue front and center, reminding us that...

DRC-Great Lakes: Togo refocuses mediation on concrete result

In Lomé, Togo has chosen to break with declaratory diplomacy surrounding the crisis in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. The high-level meeting held...

Africa’s Jobs and Growth Conundrum

The World Bank’s global economic forecast for the year ahead was, on the face of it, full of good news for African countries. Growth...

Inside the Scramble to Keep a Divided America’s 250th Birthday On Track

Ben Smith/Semafor President Donald Trump, somewhere between his seizure of the Kennedy Center and his assault on the Fed, recently considered adding another independent government...

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