The TEDA template: What a Suez park reveals about exporting Chinese industry
Intellectual - Frameworks & Theory · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 The easy story about Chinese parks in Africa is about money crossing a border. The more interesting one is about a method crossing a border. TEDA Suez is not a...
Rail’s return: Africa’s revival inside a larger modernisation arc
Intellectual - Foresight & Big Ideas · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 For most of the late twentieth century African rail was a story of decline - colonial-era lines rusting toward the ports they were built to serve. Rail's...
Five Signals That Will Determine the Future of Kafue National Park’s Conservation-Led Repositioning
A flagship park is not declared; it is proven over years by signals that are easy to state and hard to fake. Kafue has the raw material to become a globally recognised conservation destination — the scale, the biodiversity, the management structure — but scale cuts...
The dragnet argument: why the China-Africa story is bigger than its biggest project
Intellectual - Foresight & Big Ideas · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 Argue about China in Africa and someone names a single project: a railway that loses money, a stadium nobody fills, a port pledged as collateral. The debate then...
Green Development: From Side Project to the Centre of China-Africa Energy
Intellectual - Foresight & Big Ideas · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 For most of the infrastructure era, green energy was the polite paragraph after the coal plant and the trunk road. That order has shifted. The renewable projects...
Congo’s cobalt suspension: the rule, the thin evidence, and the price it set in April
ARECOMS suspended Congolese cobalt exports on 22 February 2025, and London cobalt rose 59 per cent by 25 April. The rule is public, the evidence of its effect is not, and contracts should be written around the review date.
Eleven per cent or six: reading Congo’s inflation evidence in March 2025
In March 2025 Congo’s inflation could be quoted as 10.4, 9.9, 2.2 or, in one headline, 6.2 per cent. The differences come from how the index is built and which rule reads it, and contracts should say which.
What Congo’s cobalt pause shows about rules and evidence: ARECOMS, February 2025
On 22 February 2025 ARECOMS suspended cobalt exports for four months. The BCC’s price and output series, CRU and SFA analysis, and the decision’s own conditions show how rules and evidence combine.
Evidence as an asset: what January 2025’s published rules mean for Congo due diligence
A Sicomines audit trail, IMF disclosure benchmarks, VAT e-billing and a footnoted BCC digest give buyers and lenders more to check in 2025. Treat promised publication as a calendar, not a fact.
Constitutional Court Debate Moves to the Bench
After delays, the High Court scheduled a 15 May 2024 hearing on whether Botswana needs a standalone constitutional court.
Who measures Congo’s franc? The BCC rules that decide what the market sees
In March 2023 the BCC’s digest showed how its indicative rate, policy rate and reserve count are defined, and where provisional data and rule choices change what contracts and covenants say.
Public Distrust Threatens Malaria Control Campaigns
Some residents refused indoor residual spraying even as malaria cases rose in March 2023, with misinformation and a shifting climate widening the risk.
Reading a Congolese counterparty in August 2022: the rules that now create evidence
By August 2022 the DRC had written disclosure duties into state-company reporting, mining royalties and revenue software. Together with the BCC’s output tables, they give investors firmer evidence than a year earlier.