Off a busy pier in Namibia’s main port of Walvis Bay, the seeds of an economic boom are being planted. As workers heave fish from boats, or unload cargoes of sulfur and Congolese copper, a massive cylindrical drilling segment is…

Early in May, King Philippe of Belgium was on the edge of the Namib desert to inaugurate a project that aims to help decarbonize European industry, and which might just enable one of Africa’s smallest economies to hit the clean-energy…

SABMILLER plans to grab some of sub-Saharan Africa’s US$3 billion (N$24 billion) home-brew market with cheaper beers made from domestic crops such as sorghum and cassava.The brewer is enlisting 55 000 local farmers to produce grains by 2012. ‘Beer is…