Africa
Fuel Shock Puts African Airlines Under Renewed Pressure
Higher fuel prices are again testing African airlines, exposing the link between geopolitics, jet fuel supply, ticket prices and the continent’s fragile…
Category: Development
Development
ARM-Harith’s Climate Fund Tests Whether African Pension Capital Can Finance Infrastructure
ARM-Harith’s climate transition fund highlights a deeper development-finance question: whether African institutional savings can be channelled into bankable infrastructure at scale.
Africa
Kenya’s Ebola Facility Dispute Tests Health Security, Sovereignty and Trust
A dispute over a U.S.-backed Ebola quarantine facility in Kenya has become a wider test of health preparedness, sovereignty, transparency and local…
Africa
Ghana Says African Debt Is Mispriced as It Targets Investment-Grade Rating
Ghana is telling investors that African sovereign risk is unfairly priced as it seeks to restore market confidence after debt restructuring.
AfDB
AfDB’s 2026 Review Puts Africa’s Development Financing Gap Back at the Centre of Policy Debate
The African Development Bank’s 2026 Annual Development Effectiveness Review focuses on mobilising Africa’s development financing at scale, highlighting the continent’s persistent capital…
AfDB
AfDB’s $125m ATIDI Bet Tests Whether Africa Can De-Risk Its Own Development Finance
The African Development Bank’s $125 million investment in ATIDI could reshape Africa’s guarantee market and mobilize institutional capital for infrastructure and trade.
Africa
Africa’s Renewable Energy Pipeline Is Starting to Outpace Fossil Power
Renewable energy is moving from climate ambition to infrastructure reality across Africa, with solar and wind projects gaining ground because they are…
AfDB
AfDB Growth Warning Shows Africa’s Exposure to Fuel and Food Shocks
The African Development Bank’s latest growth warning highlights Africa’s exposure to imported fuel, food, fertilizer and financing shocks despite resilient headline growth.
AfDB
Africa’s Aid Shock Pushes AfDB Toward a New Domestic-Capital Playbook
Africa’s development finance debate is shifting from donor flows to domestic capital mobilisation, as AfDB meetings highlight the continent’s annual funding gap.
Africa
World Bank crisis-finance demand rises as energy and fertilizer shocks spread
Twenty-seven countries have moved to secure access to crisis-finance tools from existing World Bank programmes as energy and fertilizer shocks intensify.