Africa is turning to the Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals as geopolitical tensions in the Middle East disrupt global fuel supply chains, triggering shortages and price volatility across the continent. The refinery, owned by billionaire Aliko Dangote, has begun exporting refined petroleum products to multiple African markets after reaching full production capacity of 650,000 barrels
By Peter Ongera Global conflicts often reshape economic relationships, supply chains, and geopolitical alliances. The ongoing instability in the Middle East—long a critical hub for global energy supply, has once again highlighted the vulnerability of international markets to regional crises. For Africa, however, such disruptions may also present an opportunity. With strategic planning and coordinated
By Sellah Bogonko, Co-Founder and CEO, Jacobs Ladder Africa (JLA) COP30 will be remembered less for what it achieved and more for what it avoided. The summit closed without a single new commitment to phase out fossil fuels, the very issue driving global heating. The BBC called it “one of the most divisive COPs in