Category: Africa

South Africa’s retailers are paying a widening price for weak security systems, with losses now extending beyond stolen stock to staff safety, customer confidence,

 Nigeria’s equities market has moved into a stronger expansion cycle as abundant domestic liquidity, expectations of looser monetary conditions and a widening valuation rerating

Nairobi became the centre of a sharper debate over Africa’s economic future on Monday as the Africa Forward Summit 2026 opened with agriculture emerging

Rwanda has moved to strengthen its access to the Central Corridor through a standard gauge railway link intended to connect Kigali with Tanzania’s expanding

Botswana’s beef industry is under mounting pressure as foot-and-mouth disease disrupts exports, closes key slaughter facilities and threatens rural incomes in a country where

Kenya is moving to keep more value from its minerals at home, signalling a sharper shift from raw exports towards processing, refining and manufacturing

Etihad Airways has set out one of its biggest Africa pushes in years, unveiling six new destinations across the continent as Abu Dhabi’s flag

Wafacash and Money Fellows have signed a strategic partnership at GITEX Africa in Marrakech aimed at digitising Daret, the traditional savings circle widely used

South Africa’s net foreign reserves fell to $73.19 billion at the end of March from $75.84 billion in February, as the country’s gross reserves

Sub-Saharan Africa’s growth is set to hold at 4.1% in 2026, but the World Bank has cut its earlier projection and warned that a

Afreximbank has been confirmed as a partner for African Energy Week 2026, due to run from October 12 to 16 in Cape Town, in

Cordros Securities has projected a calmer but still constructive second quarter for Nigeria’s equities market, arguing that the sharp gains posted in the first

Uganda’s Parliament has stepped up pressure on the government over a health cooperation deal with the United States that includes provisions for sharing pathogen

Coca-Cola and its authorised bottling partners in South Africa have set out plans to invest 17.6 billion rand, about $1 billion, in the country

Nigeria has forfeited a potential revenue surge from elevated crude prices during the Iran war because it could not raise production enough to match

South Africa will cut a fuel tax for April to soften the hit from surging global oil prices, as Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana moves

South Africa’s Western Cape High Court has authorised life-saving surgery for a six-year-old girl after her parents withheld consent on cultural and religious grounds,

Zimbabwe has turned a long-signalled restriction on second-hand clothing into formal law, tightening its effort to shield domestic manufacturers even as economists and traders

 Gulf tensions are sharpening the risks for African health systems already reliant on imported medicines, as disrupted shipping routes, higher freight bills and delayed

African Development Bank Group is set to launch the 2026 edition of its Africa’s Macroeconomic Performance and Outlook report on 30 March at its

Kenya will incorporate nuclear energy into its electricity mix as part of a broader strategy to expand generation capacity to 10,000 megawatts, President William

Kenya has moved to grant amnesty to its citizens who were recruited to fight for Russia in the war against Ukraine, signalling a shift

A Federal High Court ruling in Nigeria has affirmed that citizens are entitled to record police officers performing their duties in public, while also

Nigeria’s telecommunications sector faces escalating risks from artificial intelligence-driven fraud, prompting warnings that operators must strengthen defences with advanced detection systems and tighter internal