by The Fikiria Desk | Jun 24, 2025 | Consumers
For the ordinary Burundian household and small business, electricity has long been a promise more than a service — a connection that exists on paper but flickers in practice, or a grid that ends a few streets short. So the inauguration of the 32.5 MW Jiji hydropower...
by The Fikiria Desk | Oct 26, 2023 | Consumers
A logistics corridor has customers, even if they are not the people usually pictured at a launch. Its customers are the shippers, miners and traders who must decide, cargo by cargo, whether to route their metal along it — and like any customer, they defect the moment...
by The Fikiria Desk | Apr 20, 2023 | Consumers
Rwanda has spent a decade building the pipes of a digital economy — national fibre, mobile money on almost every handset, government services moved onto the Irembo platform — yet for the ordinary consumer in Kigali or Musanze the promise still outruns the delivery. A...
by The Fikiria Desk | Apr 20, 2023 | Consumers
Africa has no shortage of AI ambition and a serious shortage of AI governance. Strategies are announced across the continent; frameworks that tell researchers, firms and regulators how to actually operate are rare. Rwanda, a small landlocked economy with more...
by The Fikiria Desk | Dec 19, 2022 | Consumers
Djibouti has always earned its living from things passing through it — ships, bunker fuel, transit cargo bound for landlocked Ethiopia. A country built on transit rarely turns that traffic into gains its own customers can feel at the counter. The PEACE submarine...