an investment banker and co-founder of the Business and Industry in Africa Chair at ESSEC Business School, points out. But the future for the continent looks brighter. African GDP is “still ...

Following seven rounds of balloting, 60-year-old diplomat Mahmoud Ali Youssouf was elected the sixth chair of the African Union Commission in February 2025. Politics professor Ulf Engel, who is the ...

The chair is the chief executive officer and legal representative of the African Union as well as the accounting officer of the AU Commission. They are directly responsible to the AU executive ...

It involves navigating the different levels of commitments of AU member states, promoting the pan-African agenda on the global stage and developing the professionalisation of the commission. The chair ...

As we meet this year, we have a unique and exciting occasion to celebrate—South Africa chairs and hosts the G20 for the first time on African soil, signaling not just Africa’s rise but also its ...

The reinstatement of Chege Kirundi as chairman of Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) Holdings on Monday has marked yet another twist in the agency’s ongoing boardroom battles. The High Court ...

Iwaya held separate meetings in the intervals of the G20 meeting with his counterparts from South Africa, chair of the G20; Angola, chair of the African Union; and Brazil, a leading Global South ...

The Brutalist, an epic drama loosely inspired by the life and work of architect Marcel Breuer, is one of the ... Both designed iconic chairs before turning their focus to grand buildings.

For half a century, the existence of this modernist masterpiece has been mainly known to the Benedictine monks who worship there, and the hordes of architects who make pilgrimages to Saint John's ...

Before the Brutalist building was the auction house, it was the Whitney Museum, and later the Met Breuer, until it landed temporarily in the hands of the Frick. Until the pandemic, the lower level ...