🇳🇬 RMAFC flags business registration delays, seeks reforms
Nigeria's investment environment faces a dual squeeze: bureaucratic friction in business registration and structural cost pressures from elevated fuel...
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🇳🇬 Akwa Ibom airport to boost Gulf of Guinea region — Eno
**Akwa Ibom's upgraded Victor Attah International Airport (VAIA) represents a pivotal infrastructure play in Nigeria's Gulf of Guinea economic corrido...
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🇿🇦 Big fuel price rise from Wednesday
South Africa is bracing for a significant fuel price increase effective Wednesday, with petrol climbing R3.27 per litre and diesel rising R6.19 per li...
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🇳🇬 NNPC remittance hits N2.89 trillion in Q1 2026
Nigeria's state-owned petroleum giant, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd), has delivered a strong financial performance in the...
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🇳🇬 Nigerian firms raise prices as fuel costs surge to 16-month
Nigeria's private sector continues its expansion trajectory, but a troubling undercurrent has emerged: fuel-driven inflation is forcing businesses acr...
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🇳🇬 EFCC arraigns ex-Skye Bank chairman Tunde Ayeni over N15.6
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has formally arraigned Tunde Ayeni, former Chairman of the now-defunct Skye Bank Plc, on allegatio...
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🇿🇲 Zambia wants U.S. deal tying health funding to strategic
**HEADLINE:** Zambia Seeks Separate U.S. Health-Minerals Deal to Protect Strategic Assets **META_DESCRIPTION:** Zambia negotiates independent U.S. he...
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🇪🇬 Planning Minister: Suez Canal revenues rise by 20%
Egypt's Planning Minister announced a significant 20% surge in Suez Canal revenues, marking a pivotal turnaround for one of Africa's most critical eco...
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🇿🇦 BUSINESS REFLECTION: After the Bell: Will new procurement
South Africa BEE Procurement Rules --- ## HEADLINE South Africa's New BEE Procurement Rules: Black Business Compliance Crisis Ahead --- ## META_DE...
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🇿🇲 Zambia Says Privacy, Minerals Concerns Stall US Health-Aid
Zambia's government has formally rejected a proposed $2 billion health-aid agreement with the United States, citing two critical concerns that expose ...
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🌍 Sierra Leone Looks to Ghana Framework to Reform Mining
Sierra Leone is examining Ghana's mining governance framework as a blueprint for sectoral reform, signaling a strategic pivot toward institutional str...
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🌍 China Zero-Tariff Trade Deal: What 53 African Nations Gain
China has fundamentally restructured its trade relationship with Africa by extending zero-tariff status to 53 African nations with which it maintains ...
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🌍 US-DRC Strategic Partnership Agreement Faces Constitutional
The Democratic Republic of Congo's constitutional court has intervened in a landmark US-DRC strategic partnership agreement, triggering a legal stando...
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🇪🇹 Dodai Secures BII Backing to Scale Electric Mobility
Ethiopia E-Mobility & Clean Transport --- **HEADLINE:** Ethiopia E-Mobility Startup Dodai Secures BII Funding for Urban Transport **META_DESCRIPTIO...
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🇿🇦 Unchecked foreign domination in township economies poses
South Africa's township economy represents one of the continent's most dynamic yet vulnerable markets, estimated at R900 billion annually—yet foreign ...
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🇿🇦 NSFAS placed under administration
**HEADLINE:** South Africa NSFAS Administration: What Student Funding Crisis Means for Investors **META_DESCRIPTION:** South Africa places NSFAS unde...
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🇳🇬 Senate holds Public Hearing on Revenue Institute Bill
Nigeria's Senate has moved a critical step closer to institutionalizing the country's tax and fiscal management framework. A public hearing on the Cha...
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🇬🇭 BoG’s GHC93bn equity hole could burden taxpayers — Abena
Ghana's central bank is sitting on a negative equity position of approximately GHC93 billion—a structural imbalance that threatens to shift financial ...
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🇹🇿 Tanzania projects 6.1% GDP growth as agriculture and mining
Tanzania is positioning itself as one of East Africa's most resilient growth engines, with official projections targeting 6.1% GDP expansion in 2025. ...
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🇿🇦 Stitch launches BNPL offering in South Africa's payments
Buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) adoption is accelerating across Southern Africa, and South Africa's fintech ecosystem just got a significant new player. Stit...
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