by The Fikiria Desk | Feb 24, 2025 | Content
A market-moving decision is only as trustworthy as the paper trail behind it, and in commodities the rumour usually outruns the document. On 24 February 2025, the Democratic Republic of Congo suspended cobalt exports for four months to reduce oversupply and support...
by The Fikiria Desk | Jan 10, 2025 | Content
In an information environment thick with rumour and forecast, the launch of a securities exchange is that rare event which arrives with primary documents attached. On 10 January 2025, Ethiopia launched its securities exchange as a central institution in its effort to...
by The Fikiria Desk | Sep 9, 2024 | Content
A plan announced is not a plan evidenced. The distance between a government’s launch event and what can actually be verified from primary documents is where careful reporting lives, and it is the discipline this package sets out to hold. Rwanda’s National...
by The Fikiria Desk | Jul 29, 2024 | Content
The hardest discipline in reporting a currency reform is refusing to write the ending before it happens. On 29 July 2024, Ethiopia moved to a market-based foreign-exchange regime, and the temptation is to narrate where the birr will settle. This is instead an evidence...
by The Fikiria Desk | Dec 13, 2023 | Content
In a story this large, the risk is not too few claims but too many, most of them unverifiable on the day. So this is a deliberately disciplined account of what can be sourced on 13 December 2023 and nothing beyond it. The IMF and World Bank have confirmed that Somalia...