Africa Business News
- The Anthropologist in the Room: Reflections on an Unsettled Yearby Simoa Nangle on March 12, 2026 at 1:38 pm
2025 upended global cooperation. From Africa to Europe to the US, partnerships are shifting — think tanks must rethink how collaboration actually works now.
- The Year of Modest Regulatory Clarity, but Every Little Helpsby Serwah Prempeh on March 11, 2026 at 1:47 pm
2025 highlighted Africa’s uneven green tech transition as global trade rules tightened and finance gaps widened, underscoring the need to strengthen institutions and expand climate‑tech finance.
- Beyond the Flying Geese: What the 15th Five-Year Plan Means for Africa, Europe and the Worldby Olumide Abimbola on March 11, 2026 at 1:32 pm
China’s 2025 trajectory challenges conventional development models, but it's 15th Five Year Plan could present new opportunities for Africa and Europe
- Climate Smart Agriculture Technologies and Youth Employment in Ghanaby Bismark Owusu Nortey on March 5, 2026 at 2:15 pm
Climate Smart Agriculture Technologies hold the potential to address both high youth unemployment and climate change in Ghana, but adoption hinges on overcoming various policy barriers.
- WTO Reform in Times of Geopolitical Tensions and Trade Wars - African Voices, African Strategic Choicesby APRI on March 3, 2026 at 9:56 am
APRI’s Economy and Society programme, in partnership with Brot für die Welt, and Werkstatt Ökonomie will host a hybrid session to analyze the World Trade Organization's founding principles and explore opportunities for actionable reform that can enhance African agency.
- ElectroYuan 2026 - Tianjin, dual circulation, and the currency of the energy transitionby Ebipere K. Clark on February 26, 2026 at 9:41 am
As energy systems transform, so do financial systems. This article explores how electrification projects and financing structures are reshaping the geography of currency use.
- Germany can’t upskill Ghana into a 24-hour economy, but there is a smarter path (aligning development cooperation with vanguardist industrialisation)by Bright Simons on February 19, 2026 at 12:25 pm
The paper urges reframing the Ghana-Germany relationship from a limited skills-first model to a strategic, vanguardist partnership aligned with Ghana's 24-Hour Economy, vanguardist industrialization.
- From Trade-Off to Synergy: Value-Added Transition Minerals as a Bridge between Climate Finance and Economic Growth in Nigeriaby David Omata on February 18, 2026 at 1:18 pm
This paper shows how Nigeria can use value-added processing of transition minerals to drive industrial growth, create jobs, and finance climate action through stronger governance.






