The Southern Meridian / Section
Economics
Debt, trade, minerals, energy, infrastructure, currencies and the AfCFTA.
- Brief
Why a currency shift lands differently in a ministry
The same exchange rate move reads as policy to officials and as a price tag to shoppers.
- In Numbers
A year of power cuts across two grids
Hours without electricity, counted region by region, tell a story that averages hide.
- Analysis
Who captures the value of a battery metal
Mining is the start of the story. Processing, and who owns it, is where the margin lives.
- Explainer
Why subsidy reform is the hardest sum in North African politics
Cutting a subsidy is easy on paper. Explaining it to a household is another matter.
- Profile
The refinery that changed a country's fuel politics
One plant, one pipeline, and a long argument about who should pay at the pump.
- Explainer
What a debt restructuring actually restructures
Creditor committees, haircuts and grace periods explained without the jargon.
- Brief
The gas project its neighbours are watching
Revenues, security and a long wait: what a big energy bet means beyond one province.
- Profile
The company that became a country's balance sheet
When one firm supplies most of the export earnings, its fate is the state's fate.
