by The Fikiria Desk | Nov 24, 2023 | Consumers
Integration is announced to presidents and delivered to shoppers. The test of the East African Community’s decision to admit Somalia as its eighth partner state on 24 November 2023 will not be read in a summit communique. It will be read at a till, a mobile...
by The Fikiria Desk | Jul 17, 2023 | Consumers
For the ordinary Burundian consumer, macroeconomics is invisible until the shelf is empty or the price has doubled. That is the register in which the news of 17 July 2023 will eventually be felt. The International Monetary Fund approved a 38-month Extended Credit...
by The Fikiria Desk | Apr 19, 2023 | Consumers
The people who live closest to the copper are usually the last to see its benefit at the till. That gap frames the consumer question behind today’s news: CMOC and Gécamines have settled the royalty dispute at Tenke Fungurume, reopening exports of stored copper...
by The Fikiria Desk | Mar 30, 2023 | Consumers
Programmes are announced for beneficiaries, but they succeed or fail with customers. That distinction sets the frame when South Sudan’s Women’s Social and Economic Empowerment Project is examined through a consumer lens. The programme, advanced this month...
by The Fikiria Desk | Apr 29, 2022 | Consumers
Most announcements about batteries are aimed at ministries and markets, not at the person who will eventually buy the product. On 29 April 2022 the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia signed a cooperation agreement to build a shared electric-vehicle battery value...