🇰🇪 Small business, big ecosystems: From insights to action:
Kenya's small business landscape is undergoing a critical shift. No longer confined to production capacity or geographic footprint, enterprises are in...
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🌍 Malawi: Aid Cuts Hit Malawi Hard - IMF Warns of Rising Debt
Malawi's economy is entering a critical phase. As global aid flows—which account for roughly 40% of the government's annual budget—begin to dry up, th...
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🇰🇪 Kenya: Ole Kina Urges Treasury to Stop Off-Budget Spending
Kenya's fiscal discipline came under renewed scrutiny this week as Narok Senator Ledama Ole Kina publicly urged the national treasury to impose a mora...
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🌍 Malawi: Aid Cuts Hit Malawi Hard
Malawi is entering a critical economic period as international development assistance dries up, exposing deep structural vulnerabilities in the countr...
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🇳🇬 Foreign borrowing rises as 32 states, FCT got nearly $1
Nigeria's subnational debt burden deepened significantly in 2025 as 32 states and the Federal Capital Territory collectively accumulated **$944.12 mil...
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🇺🇬 Rising energy prices push inflation higher in April
Uganda's inflation rate accelerated in April 2026, driven primarily by surging energy prices that have rippled through the broader economy. The uptick...
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🇳🇬 Nigeria: Atiku Raises Alarm Over Falling Reserves,
Nigeria's external reserves are contracting despite a reported ₦5 trillion oil windfall—a contradiction that raises urgent questions about fiscal tran...
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🇪🇹 Ethiopia: Ethiopia's Four Years of Sustained Effort Deliver
Ethiopia is repositioning itself as East Africa's manufacturing hub. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's recent statement on four years of sustained industria...
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🇿🇼 Interview: Chinese investment key to Zimbabwe's development
Zimbabwe's path to economic stabilisation increasingly hinges on Chinese capital inflows, according to leading economists analysing the nation's devel...
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🇿🇼 Zimbabwe: Business Environment, Risks, and Market
Zimbabwe stands at an inflection point. After years of economic contraction and currency instability, policymakers are actively courting foreign direc...
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🇳🇬 Labour hints at shift to inflation-linked minimum wage
Nigeria's organised labour movement is signalling a fundamental restructuring of how the country approaches minimum wage negotiations, moving away fro...
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🌍 Opinion | Economic diversification: Beyond oil dependency
South Sudan's economy teeters on a precarious edge. With crude oil representing over 95% of government revenue and nearly 80% of total exports, the na...
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🇺🇬 Business: Musasizi woos US investors with Uganda’s bold econ
Uganda is positioning itself as East Africa's premier investment destination, with Finance Minister Matia Kasaija Musasizi leading a strategic pitch t...
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🇳🇬 Manufacturing VAT Surges 46% to N1.17 Trillion in Nigeria
Nigeria's manufacturing sector delivered a robust fiscal performance in 2025, with Value Added Tax (VAT) contributions climbing to **N1.17 trillion**—...
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🌍 South Sudan's Public Finance Review Signals Path to Fiscal
South Sudan's economy faces a critical inflection point as the World Bank Group publishes its 2026 Public Finance Review—a comprehensive assessment th...
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🇪🇬 Egypt’s FM, AfDB head discuss expanding $8b investment
Egypt's Foreign Minister has initiated high-level discussions with the African Development Bank (AfDB) leadership to scale an existing $8 billion inve...
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🇿🇦 Graduates, freedom and the real cost of unemployment in SA
South Africa's graduate unemployment crisis has reached a critical inflection point, exposing systemic failures in economic policy, skills alignment, ...
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🇿🇦 SA's economy stalled: what structural reforms are needed now
South Africa's economy remains locked in a vicious cycle: sluggish growth, persistent inequality, and limited development progress. After a decade of ...
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🇪🇹 Ambassador Urges France to Boost Ethiopia Investment
Ethiopia is intensifying its diplomatic push to attract French capital, with Ambassador Lamek's recent appeal signaling Addis Ababa's strategic pivot ...
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🇳🇬 Atiku warns Tinubu against squandering oil windfall,
Nigeria's oil windfall presents both opportunity and peril. Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has escalated criticism of President Tinubu's economi...
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