Which African country moves the most mobile money?
Kenya. And it’s not close. In 2025, M-Pesa — Safaricom’s mobile money platform — processed KES 83.7 trillion in transactions. That’s roughly $649.7 billion, about four times Kenya’s entire GDP. Think about that: a single mobile money system moving four times the value of the country’s annual economic output. No bank on the continent touches […]
Which African country is raising the most startup money right now?
The answer is Nigeria. Between January and September 2026, Nigerian startups pulled in $635 million, reclaiming the top spot on the continent, according to investment tracker Africa: The Big Deal. That is a 157% jump from the $247 million raised in the same period of 2025, and Nigeria’s strongest first-nine-months funding performance since 2022. The […]
Which African country is furthest ahead in the green hydrogen race?
Namibia — and the project carrying the flag is Hyphen Hydrogen Energy’s green ammonia complex in the Tsau ǁKhaeb National Park near Lüderitz. The scale is the headline. Hyphen, a joint venture between Germany’s ENERTRAG and South Africa’s Nicholas Holdings, holds a 40-year concession signed with Namibia’s government in May 2023 after a competitive 2021 […]
Which African country produces the most copper?
The Democratic Republic of Congo — the world’s second-largest copper producer. The DRC mined roughly 3.3 million tons in 2024, about 11 percent of global supply, trailing only Chile. The engine of that output is Kamoa-Kakula, the massive copper complex operated by Ivanhoe Mines, which produced 437,061 tons in 2024 alone — one of the […]
Which African country produces the most manganese?
South Africa. By a wide margin. The United States Geological Survey estimates South African mines produced roughly 7,600 kilotons in 2025 — about 38 percent of global manganese output, the largest share of any country on earth. Gabon and Australia trail in second and third place. The deposits run deeper than the production figures suggest. […]
Which African country produces the most cobalt?
The Democratic Republic of Congo — and it’s not close. The DRC supplies roughly 70 percent of the world’s cobalt, the single most concentrated critical-mineral supply chain on earth. The Katanga Copperbelt holds an estimated 3.5 million metric tons of reserves, and nearly every EV battery cathode supply chain on the planet runs through it. […]
Which African country produces the most lithium?
Zimbabwe — and by a distance that surprises people who still think of lithium as a Latin American story. In the year ended December 2025, Zimbabwe exported roughly 1.128 million metric tons of spodumene concentrate, making it Africa’s largest lithium producer and one of the top handful globally. The mines are the map. Arcadia, outside […]