by The Fikiria Desk | Mar 26, 2025 | Property
Somalia has spent three decades rebuilding trust in money without the pipes that carry it. Mobile wallets moved billions in value across the country while the formal banking rails stayed thin and disconnected, so a transfer between two institutions could still stall...
by The Fikiria Desk | Jan 10, 2025 | Property
Ethiopia has spent more than a decade pouring concrete — expressways, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, industrial parks, a light-rail spine through Addis Ababa. What it has lacked is a public venue where the capital to fund the next round of that building could be...
by The Fikiria Desk | Sep 9, 2024 | Property
Rwanda has rarely lacked ambition. What it has more often lacked is the buildable land, the permits and the engineering hours needed to turn ambition into standing assets. The National Strategy for Transformation Two (NST2), published as the country’s 2024-2029...
by The Fikiria Desk | Jul 29, 2024 | Property
Buildings and corridors are the slowest assets to move and the first to expose a currency mistake, because their costs are quoted in dollars and their revenues in local money. Ethiopia’s shift on 29 July 2024 to a market-based foreign-exchange regime, announced...
by The Fikiria Desk | Dec 13, 2023 | Property
A cleared debt does not pour a single cubic metre of concrete. Yet today’s news reshapes the map of what can eventually be built in Somalia. The IMF and World Bank have confirmed that the country reached the completion point under the Heavily Indebted Poor...