Paul Tilsley

Paul Tilsley is based in Johannesburg, South Africa and has experience in 87 countries in producing, reporting, editing, direction, and live, business news feature producing, reporting, and writing for a host of clients. Paul knows the African business environment, conscious of the unique negative challenges which beset Africa, but always on the lookout for the great success stories and opportunities for US entrepreneurs and organizations on the continent. In the country where he is based, Paul has covered closely the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, and mining groups in particular, and watches business trends across the continent. Paul keeps a particularly close eye on how terrorist groups are affecting certain key areas of African business development - such as in Northern Mozambique, where an Islamist Jihadist incursion has put plans for a $20 billion TotalEnergies LNG plant on hold. He can be found on Twitter @paultilsley

March 15

Congo's mineral offer to US raises questions of ownership amid bloody civil war, major China presence

The DRC seeks to offer key minerals to the U.S., but rebel forces and China largely control access to these vital rare earth resources, which are said to be worth trillions of dollars.

January 24, 2023

Yellen’s South Africa visit: ‘Not especially warm welcome’

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen steps into a superpower trade and political battleground over Africa with Russia and China, as her tour of the continent takes her to South Africa on Tuesday.

Paul Tilsley

Congo's mineral offer to US raises questions of ownership amid bloody civil war, major China presence

Yellen’s South Africa visit: ‘Not especially warm welcome’

Widespread killing, rape, disease and war make Democratic Republic of Congo hell on earth

Analysts back Trump’s USAID cuts in Africa, say increased trade will better benefit continent's poor

70 Christians beheaded in African country by ISIS-aligned militants, groups say; world mostly silent

Trump, South Africa in growing row over hotly contested land law, country's deals with US foes

South Africa hits back at Trump’s claim that it is ‘confiscating land,' as US aid to country threatened