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More than US$10 billion in Western, state-backed critical minerals financing commitments were announced within a 48-hour window during UN General Assembly week, described by analysts as the largest single-week cluster…
South Africa has put a new offer on the table for the United States, and it’s about far more than selling rocks. At a Critical Minerals Roundtable held in New…
Investment in Africa’s digital infrastructure continues to expand as telecommunications operators and technology companies increase capacity across fibre, cloud and data-centre networks. Recent developments include an upgrade to the Africa…
Global infrastructure investment is increasingly being shaped by the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence and the physical infrastructure required to support it. According to Reuters Breakingviews, private capital allocated to…
The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence infrastructure is increasingly placing electricity supply, grid capacity and physical infrastructure at the centre of the global data-centre investment discussion. In the United States,…
Kenya’s cooking gas prices are heading upward next month, according to oil marketers, after Saudi Aramco raised its contract prices following attacks on a Saudi Red Sea port that squeezed…
South Africa’s Eastern Cape and Northern Cape provincial governments have signed a formal cooperative agreement to eliminate structural permitting friction across the 940-megawatt Koruson clean energy corridor. The pact effectively…
The Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority and Africa50 have completed the commercial launch of the $300 million Nigeria Distributed Renewable Energy Fund, unveiled at the United Nations General Assembly. The World…
Sub-Saharan Africa has stormed back into international debt markets in 2026, posting its strongest start to a year for Eurobond issuance in over a decade. The DRC’s own debut $1.25…
South Africa’s Department of Communications and Digital Technologies was forced to withdraw its own draft National Artificial Intelligence Policy just weeks after publishing it, following the discovery that the document…