Africa needs to think strategically and position itself properly for supply chain capture...

I was walking down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC this week when I winced on seeing the latest consumer price index (CPI) report showed US inflation had risen unexpectedly. Our hopes for linear improvement were dashed....

There’s a powerful opportunity before us. As mining groups scramble to build renewable energy capacity, effective policymaking and taxation can leverage this shift to finance a just energy transition....

Effects are manifest over a range of processes: droughts, heat, river transport and food production...

Steps must be taken to guard against resulting drop in productivity...

Implementing measures to enable resource sharing is key to minimising the effects of the game of dominoes started by Vladimir Putin...

At the start of the year, JPMorgan analysts took a bullish stance, noting that “the world is likely to have entered its fifth commodity supercycle since the start of the 20th century”. By definition, a supercycle lasts for a minimum of 10 years. But this rise didn’t last long — prices for key industrial metals have already begun collapsing to 18-month lows — a trend that is likely to continue as we eye a looming recession....

Climate change was driving up inflation before the Russian invasion of Ukraine took place...

We’re all feeling the effects of the Russia-Ukraine war. Fuel prices are painful. Food prices are skyrocketing. Countries across Africa are grappling with soaring prices of basic staples. Yet if implemented effectively the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) could alleviate food and fuel shortages across the continent — some in the short-term, others in the longer term....

I, like many, held my breath this week as French voters went to the polls. After years of seeing the economic, social and environmental damage created by Donald Trump, Jair Bolsonaro, Narendra Modi and Viktor Orbán, I shuddered at the thought of having Marine le Pen at the helm of a major European power....

It was Easter weekend three years ago when Durban was hit by more than 165mm of rain, the heaviest 24-hour downpour since 1985. Just three years later, on the eve of the Easter holiday, we have beaten that record....

In one of the largest energy supply shocks yet, forecasts show crude is likely to top $200 a barrel...