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• Ministers of Mining in Africa are rallying behind progressive policy shifts to empower communities, formalize small-scale mining, and boost local value addition across the continent.
• They note that mining is no longer just about digging minerals out of the ground; it’s about ensuring those minerals translate into schools, roads, clean water, and decent jobs.
• Policymakers note that lasting policy change depends on strengthening institutions, building trust with communities, and ensuring access to capital and training.

Deep inside Africa’s abundant mineral wealth lies a bitter reality: while the continent is home to some of the world’s richest deposits of gold, cobalt, copper, and rare earth elements, much of its population remains disconnected from the value chain and the huge benefits of these natural assets.

At the just concluded Mining in Motion 2025 Summit in Accra, ministers from Ghana, Liberia, Malawi, and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) came together to …

• Africa is already setting the pace, through innovation born out of necessity, creativity rooted in culture, and progress driven by community, writes Yi He, Co-Founder of Binance. 
• Innovation in Africa is tested daily against the pressures of currency instability, unreliable power, and low-trust systems.
• These are the conditions where bold ideas are stress-tested, and where blockchain technology has found meaningful, everyday applications. 

Each year, Africa Day serves as a celebration of the continent’s culture, history, and progress. But in 2025, Africa is doing more than celebrating — it’s leading.

For too long, Africa has been positioned as a “frontier market,” a place waiting to catch up. That narrative is outdated. Africa is not waiting to be included. It is already setting the pace, through innovation born out of necessity, creativity rooted in culture, and progress driven by community.

At Binance, we’ve witnessed firsthand how innovation looks different in Africa. …

• African countries need to tap the power of the grid and every resource available to them in order to achieve what the West takes for granted every day.
• The big question, of course, is how do we get there? Who bears what burdens, and how?
• Africa deserves the chance to improve the quality of life for its people, and it has the resources to solve its own problems if given the chance.

As the hottest year ever recorded draws to a close, climate change is passing from theory to reality and gaining ever-increasing urgency in statehouses around the world. The goal of achieving net zero CO2 emissions worldwide by 2050 is widely agreed upon by climate experts as necessary to avoid irreversible changes in Earth’s weather patterns that could cause centuries of harm for everyone. The big question, of course, is how do we get there? Who bears what …

• Burkina-Ghana border post suffers from poor management, weak agency coordination, and widespread non-compliance.
• Burkina Faso’s exit from ECOWAS continues to negatively impact future trade policies, border protocols, and regional cooperation. 
• For decades, Burkina Faso has depended good relations with Ghana to access the sea, so it can ship its minerals and cotton to overseas markets.

A new study has unveiled a number of reforms to rev up opportunities that cross-border investors eyeing Burkina-Ghana trade corridor can bank on to grow. For years, landlocked Burkina Faso has depended establishing good relations with Ghana in order to access the sea, so it can ship its minerals and cotton to overseas markets.

However, red tape has always hampered the movement of goods, and labour along the border. The situation worsened even further with the start of insurgency in Burkina Fase about a decade ago. Ever since, traders – especially women – have to …

• Alignment with Trump’s energy-first ethos would mean that Africa could unlock significant funding for wide-ranging fossil fuel projects, and not just the offshore oil and gas ventures that dominate the headlines.
• The continent should capitalize on all opportunities in onshore projects, wildcat wells (exploratory drilling in unproven areas), and the proliferation of numerous small operators.
• These avenues lead the way to diversity in Africa’s energy portfolio, job creation, and massively strengthened energy security.

Donald Trump’s return to the White House in 2025 represents a pivotal moment for Africa’s fossil fuel industry. His administration’s swift reapproval of a US$4.7 billion loan from the U.S. Export-Import Bank (Exim) for TotalEnergies’ liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Mozambique — initially greenlit in 2020 during his first term but sent into deep-freeze for the full duration of the Biden years — sets the tone for what could be a transformative era for Africa’s energy …

• International aid and loans to Africa are based on a false (mathematical) statement; Africa needs development aid – False.
• Net financial flows to African countries dropped 18% (2020/22) -True.
• Africa paying more to service debts than development aid it recieves – True.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s aid cuts will fatally affect developing countries where millions of people rely on the aid for their livelihoods at a time when huge debt servicing costs pose even worse effect on their lives. “Analysis also finds growing debt service payments are rapidly outpacing aid and investments in all developing countries,” reveals a One Campaign report.

Titled, ‘Net finance flows to developing countries turned negative in 2023’ the report warns that; “Developing country debt levels have more than doubled since 2009, and the cost of servicing that debt has skyrocketed.” According to the report; “African countries are projected to spend $81 billion on debt …

• Stryk Global Diplomacy picked to spearhead talks on oil and gas between Africa and U.S. President Donald Trump.
• The deal aims at ensuring that Africa’s energy interests are well represented in U.S. legislative and policy discussions.
• “Africans need energy to fix energy poverty issues and spur economic growth,” said Stryk Global Diplomacy.

The African Energy Chamber (AEC) —a lobby that represents the African energy sector–has enlisted the services of a global consulting firm, Stryk Global Diplomacy (SGD), to spearhead talks on oil and gas between the continent and U.S. President Donald Trump administration.

In an update on Tuesday, the African Energy Chamber said the move aims at ensuring that Africa’s energy interests are effectively represented in U.S. legislative and policy discussions.

“Stryk is a super Lobbyist. He understands Africa and he gets results. He is adaptive and forward-thinking. He achieves results by building consensus. I am confident he is going …

• Africa will eventually rely primarily on renewable energy, as much of the rest of the world strives to — but on its own timetable.
• To achieve a carbon neutral future, African nations must have the underlying infrastructure and industry to make the dominance of renewables possible.
• But as things currently stand, most African states lack said infrastructure and industry.

There’s a promising future for African renewables as the continent strives to balance its current reliance on fossil fuels. That’s the prediction of the African Energy Chamber’s 2025 Outlook Report on the State of African Energy.

As I have said before, Africa will eventually rely primarily on renewable energy, as much of the rest of the world strives to — but on its own timetable, not that of Western countries who have benefited for centuries from the exploitation of fossil fuels.

To achieve a carbon neutral future, African nations must have …

• Beyond physical infrastructure, Africa’s integration requires modern software upgrades: the systems, policies, and institutional frameworks that power trade across borders.
• By positioning economic transformation at the heart of our integration agenda, Africa can advance up the value chain to generate wealth.
• By effectively mobilizing our own resources first, driving economic transformation, and building both the required software and hardware, we can successfully integrate Africa.

Ask any traveler about their experience moving across parts of Africa, and you will likely hear about familiar challenges: high costs, indirect routes, and unpredictable schedules that can make even the simplest journeys more complicated and costly. These travel hurdles highlight the immense opportunity to further strengthen Africa’s integration and unlock seamless connectivity across the continent.

The potential is undeniable. According to the World Bank, the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) stands to be the world’s largest free trade zone, encompassing 1.4 billion people and …

• Through various AfDB financing programmes across Africa, a total of 61M people have gained access to clean water since 2015.
• Another 33M people have benefited from improved sanitation while 46M Africans have gained access to ICT services, even as 25M people gained access to electricity.
• Next up for AfDB is the push to connect 300M Africans to electricity by 2030, and measure Africa’s vast green wealth as part of the continent’s GDP.

The African Development Bank (AfDB) positively impacted over 515 million lives over the past 10 years, the lender’s President Dr. Akinwumi Adesina has revealed. While addressing Heads of State and Government at the just concluded 38th session of the African Union Summit, Dr. Adesina said the bank has positively impacted 231 million women during the decade under review.

While sharing his scorecard before the august gathering, Dr. Adesina noted that AfDB‘s initiatives have led to 127 million …