BUSINESS & ECONOMY

Mauritania: small but mighty

Returning fresh from delivering capacity building workshops on the ground in Mauritania, Azzedine Zikara, Director, Financial Institutions (Mauritania and Sudan) at British Arab Commercial Bank (BACB) explains why Mauritania could offer new opportunities to investors in coming years

African soft power

Contrary to the argument that the African brain drain is a loss to the continent, Nigerians in the US and South Africans in Australia, for example, highlight how members of the African diaspora are becoming foreign policy actors for both their home and host countries, writes Christopher Isike

Cobalt Red: a regressive, deeply flawed account of Congo’s mining industry

Billed as an exposé, Cobalt Red simply rehashes old stereotypes and colonial perceptions of the DRC, write Sarah Katz-Lavigne and Espérant Mwishamali Lukobo