BLOG: Lobito Corridor and the New Scramble for Central Africa

By Edgar Tabaro

Central Africa is often described in the language of crisis, fragility, instability, underdevelopment. This framing, while not entirely inaccurate, is profoundly incomplete. It obscures a more fundamental reality: Central Africa is not failing. It is being contested.

This distinction matters.

Stretching from the mineral-rich expanse of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to the oil economies of Angola and the fragile terrains of the Central African Republic, the region represents one of the most resource-endowed…