Geopolitics

African geopolitics: trade agreements, regional security, international partnerships, diplomatic developments, and geopolitical shifts affecting African business and investment.

Middle East war sends crude buyers rushing to Africa

The Strait of Hormuz closure is driving global buyers toward Nigerian and Angolan crude as Brent tops $100, but Nigeria's…

Somalia sits on $8.5trn in oil. Drilling starts now.

Turkey's drillship Cagri Bey arrived in Somali waters on April 6, beginning Somalia's first-ever offshore oil drilling campaign targeting an…

Congo stops losing half its mining revenue

DRC is deploying cobalt export quotas, advance royalties, digital weighing infrastructure, and a new mineral analysis lab as it moves…

Amnesty backs Ghana’s UN slavery resolution

IN SHORT: Amnesty International has welcomed the UN General Assembly's adoption of Ghana's resolution declaring the transatlantic slave trade the…