‘China-powered’ African Agency and its Limits: The Case of the DRC 2007–2019

Does China provide African countries with ‘China-powered’ agency to challenge other external actors for their own political benefit?
SADC Futures of e-Mobility: EVs as Enablers of a New Energy Paradigm

The global energy landscape has changed dramatically over the past 25 years, but there are potentially much larger and rapid changes in store in the future.
SADC e-Mobility Outlook: Accelerating Low Carbon Transport Futures

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) is host to countries with stark disparities in development ranging from least developing such as Malawi to middle income such as South Africa.
SADC e-Mobility Scenarios: Pathways beyond the ICE Age

In preparing this report, SAIIA’s Futures programme brought together a number of industry experts, government representatives, academics and thinkers using a scenarios-building methodology to explore the implications of the roll-out of EVs in the SADC region.
Impact of COVID-19 on financial stability in Africa

COVID-19 has been very damaging to global equity and debt markets, especially in developing markets with riskier assets.
SADC Futures of Mining: Implications of Large-Scale EV Adoption

The large-scale adoption of electrical vehicles (EVs) is both an opportunity and threat if SADC member states do not act proactively to adjust to the future of mining.
Comparing the Effects of Chinese and Traditional Official Finance on State Repression and Public Demonstrations in Africa

There is little, non-biased, existing literature on the effects of Chinese official finance on state repression and public demonstrations.
SADC Automobile Futures: Towards Just e-Mobility Transitions

This policy insight reviews the pathways toward enabling just e-mobility transitions in SADC member states.
Cabo Delgado and the Rise of Militant Islam: Another Niger Delta in the Making?

The crisis in Cabo Delgado, while cast in terms of the incendiary rhetoric of armed religious extremism, has its origins in the systemic neglect and regional inequalities that plague this ‘forgotten’ province in northern Mozambique.
La paix dans la région des Grands Lacs: lecture d’une approche régionale

Les pays de la région des Grands Lacs font face à un possible regain de tensions qui pourrait mener à un retour de la violence.