Gyude Moore

How China's rare-earth curbs complicate West's diversification push - “Demand for non-China magnets is surging but upping capacity is no easy feat” https://t.co/SOqB6IH3a8 via @NikkeiAsia

“The fund estimates Kenya’s gross domestic product will be $132 billion in 2025, higher than Ethiopia’s $117 billion.”

Bloomberg @business

Kenya’s economy is set to surpass Ethiopia’s to become East Africa’s largest this year, the International Monetary Fund said, after the birr was devalued https://t.co/2yP83B38GD

RT @africanews: Victims paid as much as $9,000 to supposed recruiters who instead trafficked them to the city of Abidjan in the Ivory Coast…

“US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told a closed-door investor summit Tuesday that the tariff standoff with China is unsustainable and that he expects the situation to de-escalate.” - Bloomberg https://t.co/pS3PQIp11W

DHL will now suspend consumer shipments ‘from any origin’ that are over $800 because of a tariff-induced backlog at U.S. customs | Fortune https://t.co/GMabztw50a

RT @JustinSandefur: "How reliable are national accounts estimates of agricultural output?" Answer: Yikes. Survey data from Mozambique su…

RT @IMFNews: IMF Growth Projections: 2025 🇺🇸US: 1.8% 🇩🇪 Germany: 0.0% 🇫🇷France: 0.6% 🇮🇹Italy: 0.4% 🇪🇸Spain: 2.5% 🇬🇧UK: 1.1% 🇯🇵Japan: 0.6%…

RT @LizAnnSonders: IMF cut its projected 2025 global growth forecast to 2.8%, down from January forecast of 3.3%...2026 estimate fell to 3%…

The world has changed and something has to change about how the continent sees itself and how that self-image informs how it interacts with the world. There is no better starting point than at home with relentless integration, investing in its people and rising up value chains.

As the African Development Bank selects its new President, there ought to be a long, hard look about what priorities will be its focus. It is the smallest of the regional MDBs and can only do so much. I have ideas to start the discussion: https://t.co/hKWaxCkHLA

What the US government does in its restructuring and the assumptions that drive those changes are its prerogatives. What Africa and Africans ought to focus on are the difficult choices and options we have strenuously and repeatedly avoided.