When governments unveil annual budgets, headlines focus on the big numbers: spending, growth and tax collection. But sometimes the real story sits quietly in the technical annexes. Tanzania’s 2026/27 budget, due to take effect from July, includes plans for 6.3%GDP growth and the biggest spending plan in the country’s history while narrowing the deficit. Yet…
Local football analyst Isack Hamata says the Confederation of African Football (CAF) is maintaining a ‘quiet diplomacy’ compared to other continental football bodies. This week three continental football bodies, the Union of European Football Associations (Uefa), the Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (Concacaf) and the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), issued an…
The most dangerous customer isn’t the one who complains. It’s the one who has stopped bothering. Over the last two columns I followed a single failure from cause to consequence: selling products before they are built, and the technical debt that leaves behind. This is where the bill finally gets paid. Not by the vendor….
As Africa continues its journey of renewal and transformation, perhaps the most important leadership question is not how much influence we have, how many people we lead, or how visible we become. The leaders who shape Africa’s future will not necessarily be those who speak the loudest. They may be those who listen most deeply….
Absa managing executive Nick Nkosi Eight months after telling TechCentral it was readying the launch of a mobile virtual network operator, Absa is giving very little away about how those plans are progressing – or when South Africans can expect to see an Absa-branded Sim card. Last October, Nick Nkosi, Absa’s managing executive for transactional…
Across much of the Western financial press, Africa’s growing use of China’s renminbi (RMB) is often framed through the lens of geopolitics, expanding Chinese influence and shifting global alliances. Yet beneath the political framing lies a far more practical story, one rooted in cost management, efficiency and financial pragmatism. Kenya offers one of the clearest…
President Trump threatened Iran on Wednesday with new attacks, warning they would be at a “higher level and intensity” than previous rounds of bombing, if it declined to agree to a peace deal, which he said was “perhaps, a big assumption.” His latest remarks, in a Truth Social post, came 13 hours after he said…
6m ago Trump says he ordered Navy to “shoot and kill” boats mining Strait of Hormuz President Trump wrote on Truth Social that he has directed the U.S. Navy to take action against any Iranian boats placing mines in the Strait of Hormuz. “I have ordered the United States Navy to shoot and kill…
The Trump administration and the AU have started a bold journey that could ‘flip the script’ on decades of development cooperation. The United States (US) and the African Union Commission (AUC) have announced a new plan to secure investment inflows and develop trade in Africa. The Strategic Infrastructure and Investment Working Group (SIWG) formed on…
For decades, Africa’s place in the global economy was framed through the lens of aid,how much was given, where it went, and whether it made a difference. That narrative is steadily shifting. Across the continent, a more self-directed model is emerging, driven by trade, domestic resource mobilization, and investment. While the transition is uneven, the…
