Gold has bewitched humanity for millennia—adorning crowns, backing currencies, and more recently, fueling financial hedges. But as this glittering metal edges toward $4,000 an ounce in 2025, one question sparkles brighter than ever: how much of it is actually left?

Not too long ago, “the cloud” was a fuzzy metaphor tech marketers used to describe servers we didn’t want to think about. Fast forward a decade, and it has become the beating heart of the digital economy. In 2017, global cloud infrastructure revenues hovered at a modest $50 billion. By 2024, they’d ballooned to $330 billion, according to Synergy Research. What was once a niche IT utility is now a planetary-scale industry—one that’s quietly redefining how every byte of modern

Few things illustrate China’s modern agricultural story better than fertilizer. Back in the 1960s, when food security was a national obsession, fertilizer use per hectare was barely a blip on the chart—just a sprinkle. By the 1980s, as reforms unleashed productivity, Chinese farmers were practically showering their fields with nitrogen, potash, and phosphate. Fertilizer wasn’t just an input; it was Beijing’s magic bullet to feed a billion mouths.

For 70 years, Natural Language Processing (NLP) has evolved from simple rulebooks to powerful neural models that write code, answer questions, and compose poetry. What started with hope and heuristics is now reshaping industries — and conversations. This is how NLP went from naïve to probabilistic to neural.

When it comes to moving people across vast distances, the world remains heavily tilted toward roads. But the degree to which countries rely on roads versus rails varies significantly—and tellingly—across economies.

China’s roads used to hum with the roar of internal combustion engines. Not anymore. In 2024, nearly half of all new cars sold in China—48%—are electric, a figure that dwarfs the global average of 22% and places China well ahead of most advanced economies.

Africa accounts for 19% of the world’s population but only 3% of global GDP. This disparity is starkly visible in its energy investment: while Africa spends 3.6% of GDP on energy, slightly more than the global average of 2.9%—its investment per capita is just USD 68, compared to the global average of USD 402. According to World Energy Investment 2025 - IEA.

Ambition is abundant. Reactors are not. Africa is running out of power—and patience. With a booming population and surging demand, the continent is desperate for reliable electricity. Renewables dominate headlines, but in the background, a more controversial energy source is quietly returning to the agenda: nuclear power. For many African governments, the atom promises clean, steady baseload energy. But while the ambition is bold, actual progress remains uneven—and often p

There was a time—not too long ago—when a letter meant something. A government notice, a birthday card, a bill, even junk mail. The postbox held a kind of daily promise. But in South Africa, the silent box at the gate is fast becoming an antique. According to the 2024 General Household Survey, a staggering 63% of South African households no longer receive any mail at all.

Over the past decade, South Africa has made dramatic strides in connecting its citizens to the internet. But the journey is far from equal. A closer look at the data reveals a digital revolution carried not by fibre-optic cables and home routers, but by mobile phones — and with it, a growing disparity in how people connect.

The growth of AI and digitalization is setting off a power revolution—one that is largely invisible but monumental in scale. At the heart of this transformation are data centers, the physical epicenters of the cloud. These warehouse-sized facilities, filled with blinking servers and high-performance chips, are poised to become one of the largest consumers of electricity in the U.S. economy by the end of this decade.

Kenya has long positioned itself as East Africa’s digital powerhouse—boasting a thriving tech scene, world-famous mobile banking systems, and an increasingly online public sector. But new data from the 2025 Economic Survey suggests that behind the country’s digital rise lies an unspoken emergency: a cybercrime wave of staggering proportions.

Between 2020 and 2024, electronic waste generated in the country rose from 46,211 to 53,559 metric tonnes—a staggering 15.9% increase in just four years. This rise, propelled by rapid digital adoption, is a paradox of progress: while mobile money, smartphones, and smart appliances have improved lives, their end-of-life handling presents a growing environmental and public health crisis.

In the span of just four years, internet access in this unnamed economy has leapt from 91.7 to 110.3 subscribers per 100 inhabitants, marking a 20.2% increase and crossing the symbolic threshold of universal penetration by 2023. This expansion in internet connectivity—spanning both wireless and fixed broadband—signals a deeper transformation in how the population communicates, transacts, and consumes information.

In Mombasa, beneath the ebb and flow of the Indian Ocean, a powerful network of undersea fibre-optic cables is reshaping the nation’s economic destiny. With names that could be mistaken for interstellar missions—2Africa, PEACE, LION2, and the soon-to-launch Africa-1 (2026)—these high-capacity arteries are the unsung heroes of Kenya’s broadband boom.

60 kilometres southeast of Nairobi, a city is rising from scratch—not from ruins or sprawl, but from vision. Where once there was only...

In a world increasingly defined by its information density, clarity is no longer a luxury — it's a necessity. In 2024 alone, the average number of daily online newspaper visitors in Kenya surged to 5.4 million, a 9.8% year-on-year increase. At the same time, traditional print readership is in freefall. English-language daily newspapers — once a bastion of public discourse — saw circulation shrink by 12.3%, sliding to 37 million copies, continuing a trend that began at the daw

In the age of WhatsApp, Telegram, and Wi-Fi calls, it might seem archaic—quaint, even—to think people still make traditional mobile calls across borders. Yet for many Kenyans, especially those with relatives in regions with patchy internet or without smartphones, international voice calls remain a lifeline. That lifeline, however, comes at vastly different costs depending on where you're calling.

Road transport is responsible for nearly three-quarters of global carbon dioxide emissions from the transport sector. For decades, petrol and diesel cars have clogged city streets and choked the atmosphere. But now, the wheels of change are spinning fast—and the electric vehicle (EV) revolution is no longer a distant promise. It’s here, and it’s accelerating.

For decades, Kenya’s floriculture industry has bloomed with pride, its signature roses and carnations gracing flower shops across Europe and beyond. But in a quiet revolution over the last five years, a new horticultural hero has been budding: fruits.