AfCTA in Unleashing the Africa’s Potential in a Changing World
The creation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) in 2018 established the world’s largest free trade area by population (1.3 billion) and with a combined GDP of $3 trillion as of 2022. The AfCFTA presents its members with... Read More →
Transforming Global Food Systems For Healthy People, Environment, and Economies
According to the FOA of the United Nations, the world is moving backwards in its efforts to end hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition in all its forms. Seven years away from 2030, the distance to reach many of the SDG... Read More →
Critical Factor to Attracting Infrastructure Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa
Infrastructure Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa According to the World Bank, infrastructure is an unmissable driver for growth and development in Sub-Saharan Africa and beyond. It not only stimulates private investment and productivity growth, but also facilitates domestic and international economic... Read More →
Climate Change And Scaling Up African Solutions for The Continent’s Food Crises
Climate change is intensifying food insecurity across the world, especially climate vulnerable continents like Africa where climate events are disproportionately common. This calls for urgent measures and actions towards addressing Africa’s food insecurity in order to safeguard the calorie and... Read More →
Oil Market Report – January 2023
The International Energy Agency in January, 2023, released the latest Oil Market Report. The IEA Oil Market Report (OMR) is one of the world’s most authoritative and timely sources of data, forecasts and analysis on the global oil market –... Read More →
Has COP27 Accelerated The Development Of Green Hydrogen In Africa?
From 6 to 18 November 2022, the 27th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27) took place in Sharm-El-Sheikh, hosted by the Government of the Arab Republic of Egypt.
How Africa Can Escape Chronic Food Insecurity Amid Climate Change?
Climate change and extreme weather are posing severe threats to farmers across Africa, especially in sub-Saharan Africa because of a lack of resilience to climate events, food import dependence, and excessive government intervention.
Seizing the Agri-Food Opportunity in Eastern and Southern Africa
According to the World Bank, the African continent, despite being confronted with a set of challenges threatening hard-earned development gains, remains resilient and endowed with rich creativity and innovation that has the potential to turn around food insecurity, generate jobs,... Read More →
How Project Finance Can Advance the Clean Energy Transition in Developing Countries
Project Finance In The Clean Energy Transition According to the Oxford Institute For Energy Studies, the world climate imperative requires a substantial increase in clean energy investments across middle- and low-income countries (“MLICs”), where energy demand growth and limited financial... Read More →
Takeaways From The World Economic Forum 2023
Held on the theme, ‘Cooperation in a Fragmented World,’ the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2023 took place in the Swiss mountain town of Davos between 16 – 20 January, 2023.