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...
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...
Nigerian military authorities are set to try more than a dozen officers over allegations that they planned to overthrow the government last year, capping...
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,...
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,...
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...
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...
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President Donald Trump, somewhere between his seizure of the Kennedy Center and his assault on the Fed, recently considered adding another independent government...