The lesson from every Middle East crisis is clear: global energy shocks will continue to occur, and their effects will continue to reverberate across the world. For Africa's oil-rich but refining-poor ...

Gold mining operations recently restarted at the Loulo-Gounkoto complex in western Mali after being shut down for several months. In January, the Malian government started blocking exports from the ...

Africa too can get rich, as once-poor Asian countries have, but not if governments keep doing what they’ve been doing. Basically, they will have to throw off the stifling tax systems inherited from ...

With their new economic bargaining power, countries with in-demand resources are challenging colonial-era assumptions about corruption and exploitation, writes Bronwen Everill.

Foreign investors and African capitalists are increasingly investing in Africa's infrastructure, minerals and businesses, driven by demographic growth and improved market integration.

I T’S A CRAZY situation right now,” Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, tells The Economist in an interview on March 12th in his office in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial ...

Country’s president says continent’s resource-rich countries are in strong negotiating positions with investors ...

Since the US and Israel attacked Iran last month, the global economy has felt the shock, particularly in oil markets. African ...

The future of European energy and military security depends on secure and diversified sources of critical minerals. Currently, however, the EU heavily relies on supply from China—its strategic rival.

Miners from Mali and Burkina Faso pull a bag of excavated rocks out of a gold pit in Bokodi on May 8, 2025. [AFP] Gold mining operations recently restarted at the Loulo-Gounkoto complex in western ...