AFRICA THINKS HERE
On-the-ground business intelligence in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), since Februay 2026.
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Dr John Alpha Arufandika, founder of Aptiva AI and winner of the 2025 LIST Emerging Technologies Impact Award, is building secure, private AI in fourteen Southern African languages. African businesses are adopting artificial intelligence at speed, and most of it is...
New PeaceRep research shows how Somali border checkpoints operate simultaneously as trade infrastructure, revenue systems and sites of political power across the Horn.
Growing demand for AI and data-centre hardware could increase pressure on tantalum supply chains already exposed to conflict-linked coltan from eastern Congo.
Nissan’s Tekton launch tests whether an established automotive brand can remain commercially relevant in South Africa after ending local vehicle production.
Botswana’s participation in the Beijing Declaration links producer economics to Chinese consumer demand, making diamond marketing part of a wider industrial strategy.
Botswana and Oman have signed agreements on joint mineral exploration, oil storage and renewable power. Why the breadth of the package is the real story.
Industrial parks are sold as value-chain infrastructure, but a fenced plot with power and a road is only real estate until firms cluster and a supply chain forms inside it.
China has thrown the door open to African goods. Walking through it with finished products, rather than raw ore, is the harder task that no tariff schedule can do for the continent.
The World Bank has floated 85 million manufacturing jobs leaving China as wages rise. Whether Africa captures a meaningful share is a question of readiness, not destiny.