🇳🇬 Youths, not oil, Nigeria’s greatest asset — NSITF MD
Nigeria's policy establishment is making a strategic pivot that could reshape investment narratives across the continent. The Managing Director of the...
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🇪🇬 Egypt aims for 5.4% economic growth
Egypt's government has unveiled an ambitious fiscal roadmap for the 2026/27 financial year, projecting 5.4% economic growth alongside a primary surplu...
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🇰🇪 Will private sector-led dual training end Africa’s job cr
Africa's youth unemployment crisis has reached critical proportions. With over 200 million young people aged 15-24 across the continent, unemployment ...
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🇰🇪 COMESA attracts 67pc of Africa FDI as inflows hit $65bn
The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) has emerged as a dominant force in attracting foreign direct investment to the African cont...
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🇿🇦 DA warns R10.3bn deal will bankrupt Joburg
South Africa's Johannesburg municipality faces a critical governance crisis that has significant implications for European investors with exposure to ...
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🇿🇦 Longer Middle East war could hike interest rates
The South African Reserve Bank's decision to hold interest rates steady at 6.75% masks a critical threat lurking beneath the surface—one that could fu...
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🇿🇦 Reserve Bank leaves interest rates unchanged
The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) has maintained its benchmark repo rate at 6.75%, keeping the prime lending rate anchored at 10.25% in a unanimou...
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🇰🇪 No new taxes as govt targets wider tax base, Mbadi says
Kenya's Finance Minister Lindiwe Mbadi has signalled a significant policy shift toward fiscal consolidation without new taxation, opting instead to ex...
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🇿🇦 LIVESTREAM | Reserve Bank announces repo rate decision
The South African Reserve Bank's decision to maintain its repo rate reflects a central bank caught between competing pressures—modest economic stabili...
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🇿🇦 South Africa's business confidence rises in first quarter
South Africa's business confidence index registered a meaningful uptick in the first quarter of 2024, signalling renewed optimism among corporate lead...
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🇪🇬 Egyptian, Serbia Investment FMs discuss ways to enhance
Egypt's Ministry of Investment is deepening ties with Serbia, marking a strategic pivot toward unlocking bilateral cooperation frameworks that could r...
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🇳🇬 Nigeria’s reform momentum offers signal—and lessons—for
Nigeria's economic turnaround over the past 18 months has sent ripples across Africa's investor community, and Kenya is watching closely. What started...
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🇳🇬 SMEs struggle as fuel costs rise, inflation pressure worsens
Nigeria's small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector, which accounts for approximately 90% of business establishments and 50% of employment nation...
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🇿🇦 Interest rate relief on ice for SA consumers as global sh
South Africa's central bank is expected to hold interest rates steady at its next monetary policy decision, marking a significant pivot from the easin...
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🇿🇦 DA wants COJ R10bn wage deal scrapped
South Africa's largest city faces a critical governance test as the Democratic Alliance escalates legal challenges against a R10.3-billion wage agreem...
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🇰🇪 How harsh economy has pushed working Kenyans to side hustles
Kenya's labour market is undergoing a fundamental transformation. As traditional employment fails to keep pace with inflation and cost-of-living press...
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🇳🇬 Naira falls to N1,391/$ as dollar strengthens amid global
Nigeria's currency hit fresh lows this week, with the naira depreciating to N1,391 per US dollar—a significant milestone that underscores mounting pre...
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🇪🇹 Ethiopia – Turkey: Ankara’s ongoing economic and military
Turkey's deepening economic and military engagement with Ethiopia represents one of Africa's most significant geopolitical realignments in recent year...
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🇳🇬 Making LGAs more impactful
Nigeria's push toward local government autonomy represents one of Africa's most significant fiscal decentralization experiments in decades. Yet the me...
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🇳🇬 Naira depreciates to N1,410/$ in parallel market
Nigeria's currency continued its depreciation trajectory this week, with the Naira trading at N1,410 per US dollar in the parallel market and N1,391 i...
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