RWANDA
The Death of Interoperability Fees: How Rwanda’s eKash Is Rewriting the Digital Economy Rules
At a fee ceiling of RWF 20 per transfer, Rwanda's national instant payment system cannot earn meanin...
EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY (EAC)
EAC Budget Aid Gap: Somalia Gets Half From Donors, Tanzania and Kenya Less Than 1%
Donor dependence varies sharply across East African government budgets. Donor projects finance about...
AFRICA
Africa’s 20 Largest Economies in 2026: South Africa Leads, Kenya Rises, Tanzania Slips
South Africa remains Africa’s largest economy at about US$489 billion in 2026, but the continent�...
EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY (EAC)
Remember the Coalition of the Willing? When Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda Tried to Build East Africa Without Waiting for Tanzania
In 2013, Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda formed what became known as the Coalition of the Willing, an attem...
RWANDA
Beyond Race Weekend: What Rwanda’s 10-Year Agreement With Formula 1 Means for Tourism and the Economy
Rwanda’s tourism sector earned $685 million in 2025, and more than a third of that, $248 million, ...
RWANDA
From Visit Rwanda to Formula One: Rwanda’s New Bet on Global Visibility
Visit Rwanda's shirt deals show how the country has paid for global attention until now. The Arsenal...
RWANDA
Rwanda’s IMF Scorecard Is Clean. Its Inflation Problem Is Not.
A review in which a government meets every quantitative target for the period should settle the ques...
RWANDA
Rwanda’s Logistics Pivot: Dar es Salaam Emerges as a Strategic Challenger to Mombasa
For most of the post-independence period, the economic geography of Rwanda was determined by a singl...
RWANDA
Five Days, $10.46 Million: Rwanda’s Agricultural Export Economy Faces a Value-Capture Test
Rwanda's disclosure that 8,527 metric tonnes of agricultural exports generated USD 10.46 million bet...
RWANDA
The First 80,000 Tonnes, Not the Last: How Maiden Fuel Consignments from Mombasa and Tanga to Kigali Show Rwanda's Dual-Corridor Agreements Moving Fast and Removing the Middlemen from the Fuel Market
Landlocked states have historically purchased energy security on terms set by transit neighbours, co...
RWANDA
Chery's Rwandan Assembly Agreement and the Test of Whether a Landlocked Economy Can Convert Chinese Automotive Relocation Into Regional Industrial Capacity
The Cabinet approval on 18 September 2026 of a Strategic Investment Agreement between the Government...
REGIONAL MARKETS
Regionalisation as a Means of Managing Global Economic Risks
Global economic shocks increasingly travel through energy, food, finance, shipping, technology and s...