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East Africa’s next great contest for influence will not be decided primarily on land or by conventional military force. It will be fought over the trade corridors that determine which…
Kenya’s Mombasa and Lamu ports are scheduled to handle 51 vessel calls over a two-week period, with Mombasa taking 41—container ships, oil tankers, conventional cargo vessels and car carriers—and Lamu…
Port workers across Nigeria are once again warning of a possible nationwide shutdown. The immediate trigger is both familiar and consequential: terminal operators have failed to begin negotiations on a…
In late October 2026, at the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers’ (ICS) Controlling Council meeting in Cape Town, history was made in a quiet but consequential way. Natalia Margioli FICS assumed…
The Strait of Hormuz has long punched above its geographic weight. As one of the world’s most critical maritime arteries, this narrow waterway carries roughly a fifth of global oil…
Tanzania and Angola have agreed to link their transport corridors so that the Benguela Railway—the spine of the Lobito Corridor on the Atlantic—connects through Zambia and the Democratic Republic of…
For over a decade following the peak of the Somali piracy crisis from 2008 to 2013, the international community largely viewed the problem as contained. A combination of naval coalitions,…
In the coastal town of Malindi, where the Vasco da Gama Pillar stands as a monument to 15th-century exploration, a modern institution is attempting to rewrite Kenya’s relationship with the…
On the afternoon of 29 October 2026, approximately a dozen armed men boarded the Iranian-flagged fishing dhow AZINI between Bandarbayla and Hafun District off the coast of Puntland, Somalia. The…
The waters of Kilindini Harbour have long carried the weight of Kenya’s maritime commerce, but they also hold the memory of those who paid the ultimate price ensuring that trade…