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28 Oct 2025 - The past few years have brought back a major threat to competitiveness: high inflation, alongside the steepest interest rates seen in decades.

28 Oct 2025 - Nigeria’s vast informal economy, stretching from street vendors and market traders to roadside artisans and small-scale farmers, remains both the…

28 Oct 2025 - Several African airlines have been added to the European Union’s air safety blacklist, deepening a long-running dispute over aviation oversight and…

28 Oct 2025 - Several African currencies have garnered international attention in October 2025 due to their exceptional resiliency.

28 Oct 2025 - The Dangote Oil Refinery recently disclosed that it has reinstated workers whom the company had laid off a few months back.

28 Oct 2025 - Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote is preparing a major return to Zimbabwe with plans for a US$1 billion industrial complex that will integrate…

28 Oct 2025 - In a major boost to Africa’s green industrial transition, Chinese firms have invested over $1.3 billion in Nigeria’s rapidly expanding lithium…

28 Oct 2025 - Tanzania has unveiled an ambitious $420 million synthetic fuel project aimed at positioning the country as a leading exporter of jet fuel in Africa,…

27 Oct 2025 - JPMorgan Chase & Co. is returning to Angola’s financial system, becoming the first U.S. bank to resume dollar clearing services in the country…

27 Oct 2025 - South Africa’s FirstRand Bank has acquired a 20% stake in UAE-based Optasia, a digital finance platform serving millions of underbanked clients…

27 Oct 2025 - South Africa’s FirstRand Bank has acquired a 20% stake in UAE-based Optasia, a digital finance platform serving millions of underbanked clients…

27 Oct 2025 - Paul Biya, the world’s oldest sitting president, has secured an eighth term in Cameroon, keeping him in power as the country’s largely young…

27 Oct 2025 - Mali has suspended school and university activities nationwide due to a worsening fuel shortage.

27 Oct 2025 - In several African countries, diesel is the unseen thread that holds economies together in both urban and rural areas of Africa, yet its price rarely…

27 Oct 2025 - African nations are increasingly at the centre of a new mineral Cold War. Kenya’s Mrima Hill, with rare earth deposits valued at over $62 billion,…

27 Oct 2025 - South Africa’s richest black billionaire, Patrice Motsepe, via Harmony Gold, South Africa’s largest gold producer, the gold business he backs, has…

27 Oct 2025 - Nigeria has set its sights on becoming a global leader in digital innovation, with an ambitious plan to achieve 95% digital literacy and dominate…

27 Oct 2025 - The Dangote Refinery’s plan to begin producing its own crude is set to start before the end of the year.

27 Oct 2025 - Russia’s automakers UAZ and AvtoVAZ are stepping up plans to enter Africa’s fast-growing car market, pursuing local assembly initiatives aimed at…

27 Oct 2025 - TotalEnergies has informed Mozambique that the cost of its liquefied natural gas (LNG) project has increased by $4.5 billion due to a four-year halt…

27 Oct 2025 - Across Africa, a quiet but profound technological revolution is underway, and at its epicentre lies Nigeria. Once considered a fledgling digital…

27 Oct 2025 - Nigeria’s Dangote Petroleum Refinery is set to more than double its processing capacity from 650,000 barrels per day (bpd) to 1.4 million bpd.

26 Oct 2025 - The United States has removed Mali from its controversial visa-bond program, a move seen as part of broader efforts to mend strained diplomatic ties…

26 Oct 2025 - After three failed rounds of negotiations with African governments, the United States has secured an agreement with Liberia to receive Kilmar Abrego…

25 Oct 2025 - South Africa is stepping up deportations of undocumented migrants as economic pressures intensify and public frustration grows over high unemployment.

25 Oct 2025 - At 19, David Makuku Nandwa had a $5,000 payment frozen by PayPal. That frustration became fuel. Months later, he launched Honeycoin, a fintech…

25 Oct 2025 - Two of Africa’s largest economies, Nigeria and South Africa, have been removed from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) “grey list,” easing…

25 Oct 2025 - Africa continues to lag behind other regions in global container handling capacity, with only four ports making it into Lloyd’s List’s Top 100…

25 Oct 2025 - The United States has ordered the departure of non-essential diplomatic staff and their family members from Mali, citing escalating security concerns…

24 Oct 2025 - One of South Africa’s oldest pharmaceutical firms, Adcock Ingram, is set to delist from the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) on November 11, 2025,…

24 Oct 2025 - South Africa is in discussions with at least six private companies to secure funding aimed at bringing Formula 1 Grand Prix racing back to the…

24 Oct 2025 - The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has removed Nigeria, South Africa, Mozambique, and Burkina Faso from its dirty-money list of countries under…

24 Oct 2025 - Low IMF debt levels make African countries stand out as examples of fiscal resilience and smart management at a time when many are struggling with…

24 Oct 2025 - Chinese firm CMOC Group Ltd. has announced a $1.08 billion expansion of the KFM copper mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), strengthening…

24 Oct 2025 - South Africa’s gold industry is drawing renewed investor confidence as a new wave of funding flows into high-grade projects across the country. The…

24 Oct 2025 - Ethiopia has projected an ambitious 10.2% economic growth for its 2025/26 fiscal year, reinforcing its position as one of Africa’s fastest-growing…

24 Oct 2025 - Burkina Faso is advancing a new bill aimed at tightening regulatory oversight of high-earning companies by requiring all firms with annual revenues…

24 Oct 2025 - Fuel prices are among the most important economic indicators in any nation, but they have a particularly noticeable effect on Africa, where energy…

24 Oct 2025 - Both domestic and international flights in Kenya are set to be hit with an air ticket levy, following a bill recently signed by the country’s…

24 Oct 2025 - Nigeria is set to reclaim its place among Africa’s top three largest economies, according to new projections from the International Monetary Fund (…

24 Oct 2025 - Morocco plans to eliminate coal-fired power generation by 2040, provided it secures sufficient international climate finance, the Powering Past Coal…

24 Oct 2025 - Africa’s mobile technology sector pumped an impressive $220 billion into the continent’s GDP in 2024, accounting for 7.7% of total output, according…

24 Oct 2025 - Coca-Cola Co. expects to book an impairment charge of about $1 billion in the fourth quarter of 2025 as it prepares to sell part of its ownership in…

24 Oct 2025 - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) projects that the global economy will reach $124 trillion in 2026, reflecting modest growth amid rising…

23 Oct 2025 - Nigerian business mogul Tony Elumelu has called on African investors to support local markets while urging policymakers to maintain a stable and…

23 Oct 2025 - Ghanaian engineer Frank Owusu, founder of Aquamet, has been named a runner-up in the 2025 Royal Academy of Engineering’s Africa Prize for Engineering…

23 Oct 2025 - Oil production remains a vital economic pillar for many African countries, playing a major role in their GDP and serving as a key source of…

23 Oct 2025 - Former Ghanaian First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings has passed away at 76, at Accra's Ridge Hospital.

23 Oct 2025 - South Africa’s ambitious R440 billion ($24 billion) electricity transmission grid expansion has drawn the attention of global powerhouses, including…

23 Oct 2025 - South Africa’s 440 billion rand ($25 billion) transmission grid expansion plan has drawn strong global interest, from Indian billionaire Gautam Adani…