Egypt’s BRICS trade surge is import-heavy
Egypt’s trade with BRICS countries reached $36.7 billion in the first half of 2026, but imports rose much faster than exports and widened the gap. Egypt’s trade with BRICS countries reached $36.7 billion in the first half of 2026, up 25.5% from $29.3 billion a year...
Egypt’s BRICS trade surge is import-heavy
Egypt’s trade with BRICS countries reached $36.7 billion in the first half of 2026, but imports rose much faster than exports and widened the gap. Egypt’s trade with BRICS countries reached $36.7 billion in the first half of 2026, up 25.5% from $29.3 billion a year...
Congo’s Kamoa solar plant changes mine-power economics
A 233MWp solar array and 526MWh battery system now supplies 30MW of firm power to Kamoa-Kakula, showing storage is becoming mine infrastructure. The Kamoa-Kakula copper complex in the Democratic Republic of Congo now has a power asset that changes the practical...
Mozambique’s reserve decline is an import-capacity warning
Net international reserves fell to $3.436 billion in July, the lowest level in at least a year, leaving Mozambique with about four months of import cover. Mozambique’s net international reserves fell to $3.436 billion in July 2026, their lowest level in at least...
Malawi–Mozambique trade reform targets the informal border economy
The Tripartite Simplified Trade Regime is testing whether lower paperwork, clearer product rules and border support can move small traders into formal regional commerce. The Malawi–Mozambique border is becoming a practical test of whether regional integration can work...
Egypt’s BRICS trade surge is import-heavy
Egypt’s trade with BRICS countries reached $36.7 billion in the first half of 2026, but imports rose much faster than exports and widened the gap.
Congo’s Kamoa solar plant changes mine-power economics
A 233MWp solar array and 526MWh battery system now supplies 30MW of firm power to Kamoa-Kakula, showing storage is becoming mine infrastructure.
Mozambique’s reserve decline is an import-capacity warning
Net international reserves fell to $3.436 billion in July, the lowest level in at least a year, leaving Mozambique with about four months of import cover.
Malawi–Mozambique trade reform targets the informal border economy
The Tripartite Simplified Trade Regime is testing whether lower paperwork, clearer product rules and border support can move small traders into formal regional commerce.
Namibia’s green platforms are becoming investment infrastructure
Namibia is using hydrogen and green-industry summits as economic-diplomacy platforms designed to connect projects, capital, technology and regional demand.
BPC’s new revenue strategy moves beyond electricity sales
Botswana Power Corporation wants to lift revenue from about P9 billion to P25 billion by 2031 by adding fibre, wheeling and regional energy opportunities.
Botswana–Oman Deals Span Minerals, Oil Storage and Solar
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.
Chinese zones: A modest base for Africa’s export story
Chinese industrial zones are cast as engines of Africa’s export ambitions, but the recorded jobs and investment are modest, and the zones matter more as a template than a triumph.
Industrial parks: Value-chain infrastructure, or just serviced land
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’s vanishing factory jobs: Africa’s chance, if it can catch them
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.
Diamniadio: Senegal’s bet that a Chinese garment line can build an industry
Senegal spent about US$44m on a park outside Dakar and pinned 23,000 jobs on it. The first anchor tenant is a Chinese factory sewing T-shirts for the American market.
Huajian in Ethiopia: A Shoemaker as the Test Case for Industrial Linkage
A Chinese shoe firm exporting Ethiopian-made footwear to the US and Europe is the model linkage story – and the clearest evidence of how hard local sourcing actually is.
Private Chinese Parks: Ethiopia’s Export Bet, Built Largely by Outsiders
Ethiopia’s drive to become Africa’s top manufacturer leans on private, often Chinese-owned zones. They have delivered factories and exports – and a dependence on foreign developers to build them.
Eastern Industrial Zone: A Chinese Park Counted in Jobs, Not Just Square Metres
A Chinese-built park 35km from Addis Ababa was meant to seed 20,000 local jobs. By late 2017 it had created roughly 10,000 – a real number, and a measure of the distance left to travel.
Power as Productivity: Why Africa’s Energy Gap Is a Jobs Problem First
Energy access is usually counted in households connected. The sharper measure is what unreliable power does to the firms and workers who already have a line.
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