by The Fikiria Desk | Jan 1, 2021 | Property
A free-trade area is often imagined as a change in law, but for the firms that will use it, it is first a change in geography. Trading under the African Continental Free Trade Area has formally begun, giving businesses a live framework for tariff liberalisation,...
by The Fikiria Desk | Sep 4, 2020 | Property
A payments statute looks like a document about software, yet every digital transaction in Uganda still lands somewhere physical. Money that moves as a text message resolves at an agent’s kiosk, travels over a mast, and settles in a data centre. The National...
by The Fikiria Desk | Mar 29, 2020 | Property
A fund is an abstraction; a corridor is concrete, poured and maintained. Djibouti’s new sovereign wealth fund will ultimately be judged not on its prospectus but on what gets built, where, and whether it lasts. Established this week to consolidate state assets...
by The Fikiria Desk | Mar 25, 2020 | Property
You cannot mortgage what you cannot value, and for three decades Somalia’s ports, roads and land sat outside the reach of the international finance that turns fixed assets into productive infrastructure. Physical potential was abundant; bankable projects were...
by The Fikiria Desk | Jan 1, 2020 | Property
A financial centre is sold as a regime, but it is delivered as real estate. Behind the language of funds and jurisdictions sit land, permits, engineering and the unglamorous economics of commercial space. As 2020 opens with the Kigali International Financial Centre...