Institute for Security Studies (ISS)
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FinTech, migration policy and AfCFTA must align to unlock the development potential of remittances in Africa.
Julia Baum
(She/Her)
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Conservation Entrepreneurship, Rewilding, Global Futures, Global Development, Geopolitics, Leadership
Julia Baum’s Journalist Portfolio
View as a gridAfrica has critical minerals but needs a unified strategy
Institute for Security Studies (ISS)
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As global powers race for Africa's minerals, the real challenge is not natural endowments but governance, value addition and speaking with one voice.
Why Africa's electrification matters to the world
Institute for Security Studies (ISS)
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Access to electricity across the continent is rising, yet it is low and unevenly distributed, limiting development.
Africa's future demographic dividend matters to Europe today
Institute for Security Studies (ISS)
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Africa's demographic surge offers Europe a chance to rethink labour, migration and global partnerships through a lens of long-term interdependence.
The sanitation gap in Africa's progress
Institute for Security Studies (ISS)
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Behind Africa's poor sanitation and safe water statistics lies a development crisis-one that is costing billions, stunting futures and demanding urgent policy action.
Democracy, disconnected: the quiet rise of digital control
Institute for Security Studies (ISS)
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In an age of hyper-connectivity, the power to shut down the internet is the power to shut down democracy.
Africa: Remittances As Development Finance - Africa's Overlooked Billions
AllAfrica
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Analysis - Other global south economies provide valuable lessons on successfully transforming remittance flows into broad-based growth.
Trump's critical minerals diplomacy and geopolitics
ESI-Africa
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President Donald Trump's agenda aims to consolidate US control over critical minerals sourcing & supply chains to support domestic industries
Africa has critical minerals but needs a unified strategy - Green Building Africa
Green Building Africa
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As global powers race for Africa's minerals, the real challenge is not natural endowments but governance, value addition and speaking with one voice.
Why Africa's electrification matters to the world - Green Building Africa
Green Building Africa
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Access to electricity across the continent is rising, yet it is low and unevenly distributed, limiting development. Only 58% of Africa's population had