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Cover story: Picking up steam: Africa’s geothermal future

Business Intelligence

  • News and deals around Africa

Cover story: Geothermal energy

  • The race for geothermal energy heats up in East Africa

Opinion

  • To invest in infrastructure or in agriculture? Both!
  • Can Tinubu turn Nigeria’s investment tide?
  • Should South Africa arrest Putin at the 2023 BRICS Summit?

Features

  • Interview: Africa should not miss out on the green mineral boom, says WTO director general Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
  • DRC and Zambia to establish SEZs for battery production
  • Interview: ‘The tiny, tiny, number of black women who have received venture funding is shameful’ says AppsTech CEO Rebecca Enonchong
  • Interview: Angola is courting multilateral lenders in spring meetings push, says economy and planning minister Mário Augusto Caetano João
  • How has banking turmoil in the US and Europe affected Africa?
  • World Bank-IMF meetings end with a whimper
  • Carbon trading at work in Kenya

SPECIAL REPORT:

  • Africa’s Top 250 companies 37 Africa’s biggest companies: doing business in tough times
  • The top 250 in numbers
  • Morocco on top in North Africa
  • Côte d’Ivoire pulls ahead of Ghana in West Africa
  • Safaricom decline overshadows East African performance
  • South Africa slips back and Zimbabwe surprises

Countryfiles

  • Benin: Cotonou cottons on to global clothing market
  • Is there any stopping the decline of the Kenyan shilling?

Book review

  • Is black economic empowerment working in South Africa?

Editor’s view

  • Corporates and radicals unite for positive change