🇰🇪 Are family businesses wasting their natural advantages?
Kenya's family businesses—enterprises that have anchored the East African economy for generations—face a critical crossroads. While these firms built ...
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🇳🇬 Naira appreciates to N1,387/$ in parallel market
Nigeria's naira has posted a modest but significant appreciation in the parallel market, trading at N1,387 per US dollar compared to N1,389 the previo...
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🇰🇪 Bolt fights back against Kenya's crackdown on ride-hailing
Kenya's ride-hailing sector faces a pivotal moment as **Bolt challenges Kenya's regulatory crackdown**, escalating a standoff between global mobility ...
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🇰🇪 National Oil goes missing in action amid another crippling
Kenya is sliding deeper into a fuel supply crisis, and the institution mandated to prevent such scenarios—the National Oil Corporation of Kenya (NOCK)...
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🇳🇬 FG ban on drug imports hailed as boost for local pharma
Nigeria's Federal Government has updated its schedule of prohibited trade items to include pharmaceuticals already manufactured domestically—a landmar...
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🇳🇬 Import duty reduction kills our local industry, rice
Nigeria's rice milling sector faces an existential threat following the Tinubu administration's decision to slash import duties on rice and competing ...
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🌍 Abu Dhabi Investment Office (ADIO) and the UAE–Africa
The Abu Dhabi Investment Office (ADIO) has positioned itself as the principal architect of a transformative capital bridge between the Gulf Cooperatio...
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🇳🇬 Nigeria’s oil strategy and the logic of enlightened
Nigeria's oil strategy debate reveals a fundamental leadership paradox: despite commanding Africa's largest proven oil reserves (37 billion barrels), ...
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🇳🇬 State of the nation: A country in dire straits
Nigeria faces a deepening currency and macroeconomic crisis that contradicts government claims of economic mastery. Since President Bola Tinubu took o...
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🇬🇭 Post-programme period will test economic gains - IMF
Ghana stands at a critical economic inflection point. The International Monetary Fund has signalled that the post-programme period—beginning after the...
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🇳🇬 UPDATED: Flutterwave yet to confirm reports of $75m
Flutterwave, Africa's most valuable fintech unicorn, has yet to publicly confirm reports of a substantial $75 million investment from the Nigerian gov...
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🇿🇦 South Africa postpones budget for first time since 1994
South Africa faces an unprecedented political crisis as the government postpones its annual budget presentation for the first time in the post-aparthe...
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🇿🇦 SUPPLY CRISIS: No water at Ramaphosa’s Soweto family home
South Africa's water infrastructure vulnerability is no longer abstract policy debate—it reached the doorstep of the nation's highest office this week...
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🇳🇬 NCC, CBN sign MoU to tackle payment fraud, protect consumers
Nigeria's financial and telecommunications regulators have moved decisively to address a mounting vulnerability in the nation's digital economy. The N...
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🇳🇬 IMF/World Bank Meetings: Dangote champions infrastructure,
Africa's largest industrial conglomerate made a high-profile case for infrastructure-led development at the recent IMF and World Bank annual meetings,...
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🇰🇪 Beams Global eyes Kenya base in East Africa clean energy
**HEADLINE:** Kenya Clean Energy Expansion: Beams Global's East Africa Strategy 2024 **META_DESCRIPTION:** US solar firm Beams Global targets Kenya, ...
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🇳🇬 CBN to raise N750 billion in second Treasury Bills auction
Nigeria's Central Bank has signalled continued reliance on short-term debt instruments to manage government liquidity needs. The planned N750 billion ...
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🇳🇬 Court vacates order restraining EFCC from freezing Amaranta
Nigeria's energy sector has received a significant regulatory signal this week as the Federal High Court in Abuja reversed course on asset freezes aff...
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🇿🇦 RIGHT OF REPLY: Navigating turbulence — outgoing SAA chief
South African Airways (SAA) stands at a critical inflection point as leadership transitions unfold, exposing both operational recovery gains and deep-...
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🇲🇦 Morocco, Ecuador Move Toward Deeper Trade and Investment
Morocco is accelerating its economic footprint beyond Africa, cementing a strategic trade and investment partnership with Ecuador that signals a broad...
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