Sold for One Rand: Who Is Really Eating Africa's Peaches?
Africa grows about a million tonnes of peaches a year. Its most important cannery changed hands for R1, and its biggest export market has just shut the preferential door.
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The Ghost Bean: Who Lost Ghana's Coffee?
Ghana grew coffee a century before cocoa. Today it cannot say how much it grows, and in 2022 it bought more coffee from Switzerland alone than it sold to the whole world.
October Belongs to Ghana
How West Africa's comeback economy spent one month persuading the world it is ready for business, and why cocoa and coffee sit at the centre of the story.
Grain, Guns and Graves: Who Really Won in Moscow?
Twenty-two presidents, thirty-three documents and a declaration on artificial intelligence. Inside the Kremlin's third Africa summit, the hardest questions went unasked, and the families still waiting for their sons got no answer.
China's zero tariffs spark 25% jump in SA exports while Hormuz crisis hammers fertiliser
South Africa's exports to China surged 25% under new duty-free access, but the US-Israel war on Iran is driving fertiliser costs skyward across the continent, threatening 2027 harvests.
Uganda's Golden Illusion: Is Africa's Coffee Champion Running a Gold-Plated Deficit?
Exports are at record levels and coffee is booming, yet Uganda just posted the worst monthly trade gap in its history. Take gold out, and the picture changes completely.
Who Stole Zobo? Africa Grew It, the World Bottled It, and Nobody Sent the Invoice
Somewhere in northern Nigeria, a farmer is drying a crimson flower in the sun. A few months later, that same flower turns up in a German tea blend, a Mexican street cart and a London wellness café. It is priced at a premium and wears a…
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Africa Brew Brief Monthly Report, October 2026: Bilateral Beats Multilateral: Who Captures the China Cushion?
China's zero-tariff scheme lifted South African exports 25% in four months whilst AfCFTA's 50th ratification delivered no trade. October showed bilateral deals, African-owned capital and processing ambitions outpacing continental promises—but infrastructure deficits, AGOA expulsion risk and fertiliser shocks test whether rhetoric translates to value capture.
EUDR Readiness Index: West African Cocoa 2026
A cooperative-level assessment of traceability maturity, compliance costs and premium capture across Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire.
The UK-Africa Specialty Coffee Corridor
Sourcing trends, landed cost benchmarks and buyer intentions across 60 UK specialty roasters.
Cashew Value Addition Outlook: Processing in West Africa
Processing capacity, policy incentives and investment economics for cashew kernel processing in Benin, Côte d'Ivoire and Nigeria.
AfCFTA Food Trade Scorecard
Country-by-country scorecard on tariff implementation, rules of origin readiness and intra-African agri-food trade flows.
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