🇿🇦 M-KOPA extends $22.5 million in South African credit since
M-KOPA, the Kenyan asset financing platform, has quietly become one of Africa's most consequential fintech players by solving a deceptively simple pro...
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🇳🇬 Dangote Group targets $40 billion investment to boost
Aliko Dangote's industrial conglomerate is preparing for one of Africa's most ambitious capital deployment exercises in recent memory. The Dangote Gro...
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🇿🇦 NHI Debate Masks South Africa's Healthcare Infrastructure
South Africa's healthcare sector faces a critical juncture that extends far beyond policy debate—it represents a fundamental challenge to the country'...
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🌍 IMF: Algeria among four largest Arab, African economies
Algeria's position among the four largest economies in both the Arab world and Africa—measured by purchasing power parity (PPP)—represents a crucial y...
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🇳🇬 Zichis relocates corporate office from Ogun to Lagos,
Zichis Agro-Allied Industries, a significant player in Nigeria's agricultural processing sector, has announced the relocation of its corporate headqua...
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🇳🇬 Zenith Bank delivers ₦1.04 trillion profit as 2025 earnings
Zenith Bank Plc, Nigeria's largest lender by market capitalization, has delivered a robust financial performance for 2025, reporting a profit after ta...
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🇰🇪 Jubilee Holdings profit jumps 18 per cent on increased
Jubilee Holdings, one of East Africa's most diversified insurance and financial services conglomerates, has delivered robust financial results for 202...
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🇳🇬 Africa earns under 10% of $120bn chocolate market – Report
Africa's cocoa sector faces a structural profitability crisis that should alarm European investors seeking exposure to African agricultural value chai...
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🇳🇬 Africa: Afreximbank Supports Dangote Group As It Targets
Africa's industrial landscape is undergoing a significant recalibration as two major conglomerates make bold strategic moves that will reshape investm...
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🇳🇬 European Capital Floods Nigeria's Digital Infrastructure:
Nigeria's technology sector is experiencing an unprecedented inflection point. Three distinct but mutually reinforcing developments—infrastructure inv...
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🇳🇬 Nomba and fintech firms unlock SME lending in Nigeria
Nigeria's small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector employs over 41 million people and contributes approximately 48% of GDP, yet it remains chron...
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🇰🇪 How pets are quietly shaping Kenya’s wellness economy
Kenya's rapidly urbanising middle class is reshaping consumer spending patterns in unexpected ways. While traditional sectors dominate investment disc...
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🇰🇪 CBK flags debt payments, slower inflows in forex reserve
Kenya's central bank has issued a stark warning about mounting external pressures threatening the stability of the East African nation's currency and ...
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🇿🇦 South Africa-founded Refiant AI raises $5 million to build
Refiant AI, a Johannesburg-based artificial intelligence company, has successfully closed a $5 million funding round aimed at scaling its machine lear...
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🇳🇬 CBN's New Agent Banking Rules Reshape Nigeria's Fintech
On April 1, 2026, Nigeria's Central Bank implemented its most comprehensive agent banking framework in a decade, fundamentally reshaping how over 900,...
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🇪🇬 EFG Hermes holds 13th annual conference for MENA investment
EFG Hermes, one of the Middle East and North Africa's most influential investment banking platforms, recently hosted its 13th annual investment confer...
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🇳🇬 World’s largest ride-hailing company pledges over $300
Uber's announcement of a $300 million investment commitment to Nigeria represents far more than a single company's expansion play. It signals a fundam...
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🇿🇦 South Africa: Two Insurance Giants Dominate Sassa Funeral
South Africa's funeral insurance market has quietly become one of Africa's most predictable revenue streams, with Clientèle Life and Sanlam—through th...
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🇳🇬 Nigeria’s manufacturing sector contributes N881.29 billion
Nigeria's manufacturing sector has demonstrated remarkable fiscal resilience, generating N881.29 billion in Company Income Tax (CIT) during 2025—a met...
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🇳🇬 Unilever Plc to merge foods unit with McCormick, Nigerian
Unilever Plc, the Anglo-Dutch consumer goods conglomerate, is undertaking one of its most significant portfolio restructurings in years. The company h...
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