Kenya’s Best-Known Investment Manager Just Moved to the Public Side
James Mworia Centum ties end after 18 years as he takes over Kenya's new National Infrastructure Fund, with an insider...
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The World Bank Says Liberia Is Leaving 5% of Its Economy on the Table
Liberia fiscal space could widen by 3.9% to 5.3% of GDP a year by 2030 with tax and spending reform,...
September 8, 2026
Guinea Has Started Switching On the Port That Simandou Was Built For
Guinea's Morebaya port has begun progressive commissioning, SimFer says, the last piece of the Simandou iron ore export system.
September 8, 2026
Ghana Wants Private Operators Inside Its Power Utility, and Labour Is Digging In
Ghana ECG private sector participation is targeted for early 2027, but the Trades Union Congress has threatened legal action to...
September 8, 2026
Ghana’s New Bond Drained Its Own Secondary Market
Ghana bond market turnover fell 68% week on week to GH¢2.12bn, as investors moved cash into the new four-year government...
September 8, 2026
Egypt Turned Small-Business Loans Into a Bond, and Investors Bought It
An Egypt MSME securitisation of EGP 1.383bn has closed, the first tranche of a three-year EGP 5bn programme arranged by...
September 8, 2026
A Libyan Bank Is About to Put China’s Payment App in Its Customers’ Hands
Libya Alipay payments are coming: North Africa Bank says customers will soon pay Chinese suppliers by phone, as Libyan banks...
September 8, 2026
A Hunting Lodge Just Tested Mozambique’s Gas Wager
Insurgents raided a hunting camp in Niassa on 3 September. It did not open a new front, but it showed...
September 8, 2026
Africa Intelligence Brief — Tuesday, September 8, 2026
Africa Intelligence Brief for September 8: Nigeria's government won't confirm a three-month ceasefire it quietly holds with Boko Haram, a...
September 8, 2026
Congo’s Copper Mines Are Building the Power Stations the State Never Could
DR Congo solar installations are set to rise 544% in 2026, Ember says, after a 233 MW array began powering...
September 8, 2026
Liberia Is US$45m Away From Its First Billion-Dollar Revenue Year
Liberia domestic revenue has reached US$954.7m in fiscal 2026, leaving the state US$45.3m short of its first US$1bn collection year.
September 8, 2026
Mozambique Signs an Industrial Park Deal Inland, Away From the Gas
A Manica industrial parks agreement was signed at FACIM, with a first site planned at Selva in Vanduzi district on...
September 8, 2026
A Comorian Airline Says It Will Start Flying to Mayotte in December
Royal Air Mayotte flights will begin on 15 December 2026, the Comorian carrier says, adding the French department to a...
September 8, 2026
Egypt’s Reserves Passed US$57bn, and Gold Did the Heavy Lifting
Egypt foreign reserves reached a record US$57.214bn in August 2026, but the rise came from gold, as currency holdings fell...
September 8, 2026
Libya Will Stop Clearing Trade Goods That Never Passed Through a Bank
A Libya import ban on trade goods paid for outside official banking channels takes effect on 30 September under decision...
September 8, 2026
Kenya Ordered Foreign-Run Shops Shut, Then Offered an Amnesty
Kenya foreign traders faced a shutdown order this week, and the government then offered undocumented East Africans a registration amnesty.
September 8, 2026
An Igbo-Language Film Has Just Set a Record Nollywood Had Never Filled
The highest-grossing Igbo film ever, Ikenga: The Last Festival, has passed N75m at the Nigerian box office since opening on...
September 8, 2026
Nigeria’s Petrol Import Bill Rose Almost Tenfold in a Single Quarter
Nigeria petrol imports rose 989.4% to N952.15bn in the second quarter of 2026, even as the country's trade surplus widened...
September 8, 2026
Ghana Has Counted 8,578 Fibre Cuts This Year, and Paid US$20m to Mend Them
Ghana fibre cuts reached 8,578 in 2026 and cost operators more than US$20m, with road works behind 49% and illegal...
September 8, 2026
Safaricom’s M-Pesa Enters Ethiopia as Wave Secures a West African Bank Licence
Africa mobile money is shifting fast as Wave gains a West African bank license and Nigeria's fintech unicorns get CBN...
September 7, 2026