Libya: Stepping into a Pre-Revolution Scenario and Yet Another ‘Crisp Atmosphere’ Experience My mission to Libya and a nervous arrival It was December 2010 when I took an Egyptair flight from Johannesburg to Cairo and then another Egyptair flight onwards…
Côte d’Ivoire/Ivory Coast: An Agricultural Success Story that is Blossoming Even More Why no dried mangoes?… It was sometime around 2002 and I was walking with an Ivorian friend in the streets of Abidjan’s posh Cocody suburb. “So many mangoes…
Namgola: Development of Southern Angola and Northern Namibia into a Significant Economic Region A new trade route and ‘Namgola’… I was sitting on the stoep of a home on the outskirts of Windhoek enjoying a few sundowners with a Namibian…
Ghana: Major Expansion of Takoradi Port Awaits Oil and Gas Developments A flurry of port developments in sub-Saharan Africa Recent decades have seen major new port developments and port expansions in sub-Saharan Africa. Long-standing ports developed during colonial times…
Guinea: Home of the Last–Known Biggest and Richest Unrealised Iron Ore Deposit in the World An exciting invitation for a mission to a country blessed with resource wealth It was late 2012 when a long-standing client invited me to assist…
Mozambique: A New Bridge & A New Road Brings Limited Vitalisation of the Far South THE UNLOCKING OF A UNIQUE TOURISM AREA AND A NEW CROSS-BORDER TRADE ROUTE… It was 2017 when my colleague, Roelof and I visited Maputaland. This area…
MOROCCO: A SIGNIFICANT INVESTOR IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA MY INITIAL EXPERIENCES OF MOROCCAN ACTIVITY IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN COUNTRIES… It was the mid-1980’s, and I had just landed at Malabo Airport in Equatorial Guinea. I was pretty nervous because I had two pockets full of CFA…
ZAMBIA: THE STRATEGICALLY LOCATED BUT LARGELY UNEXPLOITED LUAPULA PROVINCE A ROAD CONNECTION TO THE RICH COPPERBELT… The first time I went to Luapula Province in north-eastern Zambia was in 2014. I had heard that it was the ‘province of the future’, with much economic…
SENEGAL SETS THE EXAMPLE FOR AFRICA WITH EFFICIENT WATER SUPPLY DELIVERY IN A SEMI-ARID AREA OF THE CONTINENT A WATER-STRESSED REGION… At over three million square kilometres, the Sahel region stretches from Senegal to Sudan, and from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, traversing the…
Tanzania’s Natural Gas Resources A Major New Project to Re-ignite Investment THE STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE OF NATURAL GAS… Natural gas is viewed by many analysts as an important ‘transition fuel’ for the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions as countries wrestle…