Insights
Restoring investor confidence: Key priorities for Abiy’s new administration
Following a nine-month postponement, last week Ethiopia held its much-anticipated general election. Originally scheduled for August 2020, the Ethiopian government had suspended the poll, citing the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, a claim contested by opposition figures. While incumbent prime minister Abiy Ahmed boldly claimed that the election would be Ethiopia’s “first attempt at…
Read MoreAccelerating Côte d’Ivoire’s green energy push: Opportunities for solar power generation
Recent power outages in Côte d’Ivoire have laid bare the challenges rising energy demand poses to the country. Low water levels at hydroelectric dams, and insufficient capacity at thermal power plants, triggered electricity outages in major cities, including the commercial capital Abidjan. Since the outages began in April, the national utility company Compagnie Ivoirienne d’Electricité…
Read MoreMozambique: Where next for the Cabo Delgado insurgency?
On 24 March, the Mozambican town of Palma – a formerly sleepy fishing harbour that has recently become the epicentre of the country’s nascent Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) industry – came under attack by Islamist-linked insurgents known locally as al-Shabaab. The attack and subsequent occupation of Palma, and the bungled response of Mozambican security forces,…
Read MoreGhana: Post-election political and economic outlook
Following a tight race between incumbent Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and his old political rival John Dramani Mahama, Ghanaian voters re-elected Akufo-Addo for a second presidential term in the December poll. The Supreme Court upheld the result in early March despite a challenge lodged by Mahama, and the country is now looking to the future.…
Read MoreAngola: President João Lourenço’s balancing act reaches tipping point
As President João Lourenço aptly put it in his end-of-year address, 2020 “was not a good one” for Angola. Low oil prices coupled with the sudden onslaught of the coronavirus pandemic almost brought Africa’s second largest oil exporter to its knees. As lockdown restrictions were imposed, and demand for black gold on the global market…
Read MoreTop three ESG trends for companies operating in Africa in 2021
As the world enters a new phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve begun to experience a seismic shift from crisis management to much-welcomed implementation of mitigation measures, with the roll out of COVID-19 vaccines. 2020 highlighted the need for sustainable pandemic-responsive resilience frameworks at a company, country, and global institution level to ensure preparedness, if,…
Read More
