Africa Is the Quiet Winner of World Trade Rewiring: Supply Lines

Global investors are giving Africa a second look — and this time, it’s not just for the riches lying deep underground.

As US tariffs redraw traditional trade routes, investors are plowing tens of billions of dollars into the continent’s farms, railways, renewable energy, and data hubs, betting that Africa will be the next big supply-chain link in a fractured world economy. (Click here to read more of our in-depth story.)

In the first half of 2025 alone, China signed $30.5 billion in construction contracts with African nations — nearly five times last year’s pace — financing railways ...