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Unlocking Africa’s Potential: Combining the Green and Digital Corridor Approaches to Revolutionize Logistics

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This new paper explores how integrating green and digital corridor approaches can revolutionize logistics in Africa by simultaneously improving efficiency and reducing environmental impact. Green corridors focus on sustainable transport technologies and optimized routing, while digital corridors streamline vehicle and goods movement using digital tools. Their convergence offers a strategic solution to hashtag#Africa’s infrastructure and climate challenges by enhancing supply chain performance and promoting climate resilience. Drawing on regional initiatives like the Northern Green Freight Programme, the study presents a framework for how Africa can harness this dual approach to build a more sustainable, digitally driven logistics system.

Air transport: a costly, but unavoidable necessity to the development of African value chains

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A few months ago we highlighted in this post that due to the Africa’s geography, the long distances between production and consumption markets, and the high number of landlocked countries, air transport plays in this continent a role much more important than in other regions. The Africa Infrastructure Report 2025, launched today by the Africa Finance Corporation, confirms our conclusions. It points out, as we did, that air transport plays a uniquely crucial role in Africa's industrial and agricultural value chains, primarily due to the continent's challenging geography and the widespread presence of areas with difficult terrain and low population density.

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Fitch shakes up Africa: Afreximbank downgrade fuels fears for future of intra-African trade

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A tremor just ran through the African financial world. Today, June 4, the global ratings giant Fitch delivered a blow to Afreximbank, slashing its credit rating to BBB-, and placing one of the main and most influential financial institutions in Africa, particularly in the realm of trade finance and economic integration, precariously close to a "junk" status. The reasons? Fitch points to "high credit risks and weak risk-management policies" as the culprits behind the downgrade.

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Revisiting Africa’s Informal Trade: Can Enhanced STRs Drive Formalization and Growth?

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This paper explores the Simplified Trade Regime (STR) as a crucial tool for formalizing Africa’s pervasive informal cross-border trade (ICBT). Currently operational in several Regional Economic Communities like COMESA, EAC, and SADC, the STR aims to integrate small-scale traders by simplifying customs procedures and reducing compliance costs through duty exemptions. While successful in shifting some trade from informal to formal channels, its full potential is often hampered by the continued application of internal taxes and border fees, as well as a lack of trader awareness. Proposing an innovative, enhanced STR framework for the Horn of Africa Initiative, the paper highlights a more holistic approach that includes exemptions from additional taxes and fees, mandatory trader registration, and robust monitoring mechanisms to prevent misuses from the scheme. Such a comprehensive revision of the STR promises to more effectively formalize ICBT, broadening the tax base, boosting government revenue, and ultimately fostering sustainable economic growth and human capital development across African nations.

Securing Africa's economic arteries as a precondition for intra-African trade to flourish

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Approximately two months ago we highlighted in this post the escalating security challenges faced by many companies in Ethiopia as a consequence of internal conflicts. Citing an article published on Semafor that reported frequent hijackings of truck drivers for ransom in this nation, we also underscored that this in not an isolated case in Africa. Other countries, like South Africa, grapple with similar road-related crimes such as truck hijackings and robberies. Our previous post concluded that political instability and high rates of criminality create a climate of uncertainty that severely undermines the conditions necessary to attract both international and local investment in Africa. However, these are not the only consequences. These two factors also significantly escalate transportation costs. Regions across Africa afflicted by armed conflicts, banditry, violence, terrorism, and piracy—such as the Sahel, the Horn of Africa, the Great Lakes, and the Gulf of Guinea—consistently face higher trade and transport expenses that stifle economic growth.

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