News & Insights

People tend to perceive the negative rather than the positive – and weigh short-term risks higher than long-term opportunities. This clouds our view of the world and slows down ...

Pessimists overlook this: The relocation of production capacities to the south also offers opportunities – especially for the German export industry.   The only thing that is ...

Africa First founder Martin Schoeller and his familiy are driving forward the green transformation with new companies – and have now opened the ‘House of Circularity’ in Pullach near ...

Ahead of the new EU Commissioner Jozef Síkela taking office, the debate on development policy reforms is gathering pace. Private investors are to play a greater role.    If everything ...

Global tariffs on digital services could be in place as early as 2026. This would particularly affect African countries that are maturing into interesting IT outsourcing locations.    If ...

The EU’s Global Gateway infrastructure initiative has finally picked up speed. Now the business community needs to jump on the bandwagon – and question its scepticism towards ...

Angola has decided in favour of Europe and the USA as partners for the expansion of an important railway line. This should improve access to raw materials – but only if another ...

The Table.Media team has chosen the 100 ” top minds” of the Africa scene in Germany. The Africa First Network is represented twice. The Africa.Table-Team has chosen ten ...

This week we sent out the ‘News & Insights for Members’ for the first time. Further issues will follow.  Trips to the Democratic Republic of Congo and Togo, new cooperations and ...

Governments and taxpayers cannot finance infrastructure projects alone. A new fund category called ELTIF is now set to attract private investors. That’s good, but unfortunately fund ...

AFN Managing Director Ulrich Rieger held talks with high-ranking representatives in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) – including the head of state. There is great interest in ...

Another term for the ex-president would be disastrous, also for the European export industry. Governments and EU should therefore launch a trade initiative – and look southwards. ...