by The Fikiria Desk | Jun 15, 2026 | Economics
Economics – Trade & AfCFTA · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 The hardest moment in any China-Africa pledge is not the announcement but the year after, when attention drifts and implementation either happens or quietly does not....
by The Fikiria Desk | Mar 31, 2026 | Economics
A queue of trucks is usually read as a failure. Read differently, it is a map of demand that the market is not yet serving. As of today, cargo is backed up at South Sudan’s Nimule-Elegu crossing after the enforcement of electronic permit and tax requirements,...
by The Fikiria Desk | Mar 31, 2026 | Economics
South Sudan’s border with Uganda was built to be a conduit, not a chokepoint. For most of the past decade the Nimule-Elegu crossing has been the country’s commercial lifeline, the point where fuel, cement, food and manufactured goods enter a market that...
by The Fikiria Desk | Nov 24, 2023 | Economics
Enlargement announcements reward heads of state and test everyone else. When East African Community leaders admitted Somalia as the bloc’s eighth partner state on 24 November 2023, the diplomatic win was clean. For founders and investors, the harder question...
by The Fikiria Desk | Mar 29, 2022 | Economics
For two decades the East African Community has widened on paper faster than its firms have widened their trade with one another. Neighbours signed a customs union and then a common market, yet much of the region’s commerce still flows outward to Europe, the Gulf...