The Continent That Refuses to Be a Soundbite By Our Correspondent, Somewhere Between Duty-Free and Doubt Nairobi–Africa, that sprawling ellipsis of 54 nations and 1.4 billion plot twists, is once again the world’s favorite Rorschach test. Peer at it from Davos and you see the green future—lithium brine and cobalt seams humming beneath solar farms…
Guinea vs Algeria: When Two Nations Duke It Out and the Rest of the World Pretends It’s Just Football By Our Man in the Departure Lounge, Conakry-Dar es Salaam Route Conakry, Thursday night. The lights flicker like a bad omen at Stade du 28 Septembre, which is fitting because every time Guinea and Algeria meet,…
Teslaa Lions: When Detroit Meets the Serengeti in the Age of Electrified Hubris By Dave’s Locker Foreign Desk NAIROBI—Just when you thought the global supply-chain circus had run out of fresh acts, a pride of actual lions wandered into Tesla’s new “GigaSavanna” battery-materials depot on the Kenyan side of the Maasai Mara last week, electrocuted…
