Ethiopia is Africa's largest leather exporter but processes only 15 percent domestically. A government ban on raw hide exports has forced investment i...
Nigeria is aggressively expanding its special economic zones to attract manufacturing investment and reduce its import bill. Can the strategy work in...
Sub-Saharan Africa spends $3 billion annually importing edible oils from Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe. Expanding African sunflower, soybean, and...
Sub-Saharan Africa's plastics sector is growing at 8 percent annually, driven by food packaging demand. South Africa, Nigeria, and Kenya host the larg...
Africa imports over $4 billion in fertilisers annually despite having natural gas for urea production and phosphate deposits in Morocco. Domestic manu...
Africa imports $3 billion in paper products annually despite having forestry resources. South Africa's Sappi and Mondi are world-class producers but t...
South Africa assembles over 600,000 vehicles annually and exports 350,000 to 100 countries. As the global auto industry transitions to EVs, South Afri...
Egypt, Morocco, Ethiopia, and Rwanda have attracted electronics assembly investment targeting both domestic and export markets. Africa's mobile phone...
South Africa's Bayside and Hillside smelters and Mozambique's Mozal smelter produce over 1 million tonnes of primary aluminium annually. Africa's vast...
Aliko Dangote's 650,000 barrel per day refinery in Lagos, Africa's largest, began production in 2024 and will progressively reduce Nigeria's $9 billio...
Integrated agro-industrial parks combining primary processing, value addition, and export logistics are emerging across Africa, with Ethiopia, Nigeria...
Africa imports 75 percent of its steel despite having iron ore reserves and scrap metal availability. Nigeria, Egypt, and South Africa are building in...
Africa installs over 3 gigawatts of solar annually but manufactures almost none of the panels locally. Morocco, South Africa, and Ethiopia are develop...
Africa's cement sector is growing at 6 percent annually. Dangote Cement, LafargeHolcim Africa, and SUEZ Cement dominate, but fragmented markets in Cen...
Sub-Saharan Africa's beer market is growing at 5 percent annually. Heineken, Diageo, AB InBev, and Castel are investing billions in local production,...