G20 -AU’s journey from observer status to a permanent member
AU’s elevation as a permanent member at the global high table, G20, last week, is indeed a watershed moment for the Global South. It...
2 nd Russia-Afro Business Forum Meeting: A Stocktaking
The second edition of the Russia-Africa Forum has taken place at a cataclysmic juncture. Foremost is the suspension of the Black Sea Grain initiative...
IIT in Zanzibar – India’s bid to deepen ...
The Indian Institute of Technology has carved out a distinguished place on the global stage. Today, quite a few IITians are at the helm...
Zambia’s Debt restructuring deal ...
Zambia’s seventh President, Hakainde Hichilema, when he took over the reins in 2021, inherited a country in deep economic distress. His electoral promise to Zambians was...
Can Nigeria walk the talk?
Nigeria’s fuel subsidy policy has long been a contentious issue. Subsidy on key commodities such as petrol, kerosene, and diesel introduced to buffer the impact...
Will Africa succeed where global leaders failed?
African peace mission to Ukraine and Russia
An interesting development last fortnight that captured global attention was the proposed peace Mission of six African leaders...
The trials and tribulations of AfCFTA
Africa’s Pulse, the World Bank’s April 2023 economic update, forecast that the growth in Sub-Saharan African economies is slated to drop from 3.6% in...
Sudan’s crisis ; from road to democracy to the brink of civil war
The two-week-old fighting in Sudan is ringing alarm bells across the
world. Foreign countries are rushing to evacuate their citizens.
Sudanese who are trapped in their...
Fund-Bank Discourse: Did Africa get its mindshare?
The spring meeting of the Fund – Bank has not thrown open anything unpredictable. Discerning the takeaways of the week-long exercise to the African...
De-dollarisation in the African context
Necessity is the mother of the invention may be a cliché, but cutting across millennia, that oft-repeated phrase resurfaces at regular intervals. This time...
