BeiDou in Africa: A Navigation System Looking for Its Ground Game
Consumers - Technology & AI · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 China's BeiDou Navigation Satellite System is, on paper, a continental opportunity: road-fleet management, railway control, precision agriculture, land survey, search...
Abuja-Kaduna Rail: The Safe Corridor a Single Attack Reframed
Economics - Trade & AfCFTA · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 The 186-kilometre Abuja-Kaduna railway opened in 2016 to do something a market-linkage project rarely promises directly: keep travellers alive. The parallel highway had...
Djibouti-Ethiopia Rail: When Sea Access Runs Through a Neighbour’s Port
Economics - Trade & AfCFTA · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 The standard-gauge line linking Ethiopia to Djibouti was meant to settle a 753-kilometre problem: how a landlocked economy reaches the sea. It largely has, cutting the...
Mombasa Port and the inland chain: where corridor efficiency is won or lost
Economics - Trade & AfCFTA · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 By the headline measure, Mombasa is a success story: cargo dwell time fell from 22 days toward single figures and throughput rose from 13.6 million tonnes in 2016 to around...
Kenya’s railway dream: national ambition meets the arithmetic of a loan
Economics - Global & Regional · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 Every Kenyan government that touched the Standard Gauge Railway sold it as a statement of national arrival - the first new line since the British-built colonial railway,...
Nigeria’s Coastal Rail: A 1,400km Promise Against a Decade of Delay
Nigeria frames a Lagos-to-Calabar coastal railway as the spine of corridor industrialisation. Yet the line has been launched, stalled and relaunched since 2014, its funding switching hands more than
Abuja-Kaduna Rail: The Safe Corridor a Single Attack Reframed
Nigeria’s first modern intercity railway became prized as the safe way to travel a kidnap-prone road. In 2022 an attack on a train tested that promise.
Abuja Light Rail: A Capital’s Metro That Opened, Stalled, Then Reopened
Nigeria’s capital launched the country’s first urban rail in 2018. It then sat largely idle for years before service resumed in 2024.
Addis Ababa Transit: A Metro Built for the Industrial City It Awaited
The light rail’s southern line was routed deliberately toward factory districts. The transit arrived; the industrial boom it anticipated arrived more slowly.
Addis Ababa Light Rail: Africa’s First Metro and the Bill After the Ribbon
Sub-Saharan Africa’s first light rail opened in 2015 to genuine acclaim. Within a decade it needed rescuing from its own decline.
Djibouti-Ethiopia Rail: When Sea Access Runs Through a Neighbour’s Port
A railway can carry a landlocked country’s trade to the coast in hours. It cannot make that coast its own.
Ethiopia-Djibouti Railway: The Export Line That Trucks Keep Overtaking
A 753-kilometre electric railway was built to carry a landlocked nation’s trade to the sea. Eight years on, much of that trade still goes by road.
Mombasa Port and the inland chain: where corridor efficiency is won or lost
Mombasa’s throughput nearly tripled and dwell time fell sharply. Yet trucks still face seven to ten stops to Kampala – proof the corridor’s bottleneck moved inland, it did not disappear.
Kenya’s railway dream: national ambition meets the arithmetic of a loan
A modern railway was Kenya’s first since independence, a statement of arrival. It also became the country’s biggest debt, where the politics of ambition collides with the politics of repayment.
Beyond the freight line: Kenya’s commuter rail revival rides in the SGR’s shadow
The SGR was sold on cargo. The harder transport problem – moving Nairobi’s commuters – runs on a separate, older network now being rebuilt with different money toward 100,000 riders a day.
Mombasa-Nairobi SGR: a US$3.6bn corridor reset that still has to pay for itself
The SGR cut Mombasa-to-Kampala cargo time from 18 days to three. It also handed Kenya its largest-ever loan, equal to about 6% of GDP, and a railway that has run at an operating loss.
The dragnet argument: why the China-Africa story is bigger than its biggest project
Every headline picks one mega-project to judge China in Africa. The aggregate – 13,000 km of rail and road, 170 schools, 100 ports – tells a different and harder-to-dismiss story.
Year of Exchanges: Africa and China bet ties between people outlast concrete
China has built more than 10,000 km of African railway. Its quieter wager for 2026 is that scholarships and training, not freight tonnage, decide whether the relationship endures.
Green Development: From Side Project to the Centre of China-Africa Energy
Solar fields in Morocco, wind farms in South Africa, hydropower in Uganda – China’s clean-energy projects in Africa have moved from the margins to the mainstream of the relationship.
Agricultural Modernisation: The Summit Pledge Africa Has Heard Before
From the 2006 FOCAC to the 2024 Beijing plan, China keeps promising experts, demonstration centres and modernised farms. The repetition is the point – and the problem.
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