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Africa is not emerging as a single investment market. It is splitting into distinct investment zones, each offering a different combination of capital depth, growth, infrastructure, reform momentum, market scale and risk.
Read the source ↗The cost of money is beginning to fall across parts of Africa, but not evenly, and not necessarily fast enough to unlock a broad investment cycle.
Read the source ↗Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) is seeking to expand its exposure to iron ore and uranium as competition for critical mineral resources intensifies, reflecting growing efforts by governments and investors to diversify supply chains for electric vehicles, renewable energy and other strategic industries.
Read the source ↗Africa is entering a more fragmented global trading environment in which tariffs, geopolitical rivalries, shipping disruptions and competing trade alliances are changing the economics of where companies produce, source and sell.
Read the source ↗For decades, Africa has occupied the lower end of global value chains, exporting raw commodities while importing higher-value manufactured products. Cocoa leaves West Africa as beans but returns as premium chocolate. Cotton is exported before being transformed into apparel elsewhere. Lithium, cobalt and manganese are extracted across the continent, yet much of the value from electric vehicle batteries is created overseas.
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