Cheaper robots, revolutionary consequences

The dominant factor determining the development of Artificial Intelligence in Africa is not computing power but who controls the inputs: power, minerals and governance. The compute gap between...

Artificial Intelligence has rapidly become part of the global geopolitical contestation over resources, ideologies and supply chains, and Africa is a testing ground in all three. Middle powers,...

Few doubted that Bernard Antwi-Boasiako, an opposition chieftain in Ashanti known for flashing gold bars on television, had cut corners in his mining business; fewer still think his...

After seven months of diplomatic shuttling, Larry Gbevlo-Lartey, special envoy from Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama to the Alliance des États du Sahel (AES), is awaiting final responses...

The rapprochement launched by Ecowas is playing out against a deepening West Africa-wide security emergency. Sahelian and coastal states alike are failing to reverse, or even halt, the...

After years of staffing turmoil and repeated false starts on formulating new policies for Africa and development finance, Britain’s new government under Prime Minister Andy Burnham has put...

After two weeks of simmering tensions, Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana is trying to resolve the crisis at the Public Investment Corporation (PIC) – Africa’s largest manager of state...

For Kenya’s President William Samoei Ruto, building the Mrima Hill rare earth mine is key to his ambition to turn Kenya into a ‘first world economy’ modelled on...

The Kenyan government’s project to extract rare earths from the reserves in Mrima Hill valued at US$62 billion took another step forward when Mines Minister Hassan Joho confirmed...

Mission 300, a grand initiative launched by the World Bank and African Development Bank to connect 300 million people in Africa to electricity by 2030 has now reached...

On 22 July, the first Air Zimbabwe flight to London in over a decade left Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport, carrying a cabin full of ministers to Gatwick...

In 2007, a young medical doctor marched against a colonel-putschist who had promoted himself to the rank of general. Lansana Conté’s inept and corrupt regime left Guineans so...

The final act in the Anglo American restructuring drama has opened with a proposed sale of its diamond mining affiliate De Beers for US$1 billion to the...

Officials in Kinshasa have doubled down on claims that drones manufactured in Turkey, China and elsewhere have been used by Rwanda and the M23 militia group to launch...