Africa produces 900,000 tonnes of farmed tilapia annually, primarily in Egypt, Uganda, and Nigeria. Demand for affordable freshwater fish protein is growing at...
Africa's cement sector is growing at 6 percent annually. Dangote Cement, LafargeHolcim Africa, and SUEZ Cement dominate, but fragmented markets in Central and E...
The African Continental Free Trade Area has completed its first full trading year. We assess the wins, the obstacles, and what lies ahead for the world's larges...
Africa's mobile money ecosystem has matured far beyond the original P2P use case. Merchant collections, supply chain finance, and cross-border trade settlement...
Sub-Saharan Africa's beer market is growing at 5 percent annually. Heineken, Diageo, AB InBev, and Castel are investing billions in local production, while craf...
The Lusaka South MFEZ hosts 34 operational companies employing over 8,000 workers. Chinese, South African, and Indian investment has made it one of sub-Saharan...
African currency volatility adds 5 to 15 percent to the effective cost of cross-border trade. Forward contracts, natural hedges, and dollar-denominated contract...
Uganda is East Africa's largest coffee exporter, a growing specialist in vanilla, and is building oil export capacity from its Lake Albert oilfields targeting f...
Tunisia exports $20 billion annually, primarily to Europe, with textiles, electrical components, and olive oil as the leading categories. Its Euro-Med trade int...
Casablanca handles 90 percent of Morocco's external trade. The Tanger Med expansion has emerged as a world-class container transshipment hub, processing 7.4 mil...
Maize is sub-Saharan Africa's most important food crop, grown by over 300 million smallholder farmers. Regional surpluses in Zambia and South Africa regularly c...
African tech startups raised $4.5 billion in venture capital in 2022 before a global funding correction. Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, and Egypt lead but Rwanda...
Kenya once supplied 70 percent of global pyrethrum. Production collapsed in the 2000s but has recovered to 5,000 tonnes under a reformed marketing structure, wi...
Zimbabwe produced 110,000 tonnes of flue-cured tobacco in 2023/24, generating $820 million. The crop is half its 2000 peak but improving steadily under a contra...
Factoring, the sale of trade receivables at a discount, allows African exporters to convert unpaid invoices into immediate cash. The African factoring market is...