Africa’s Richest Country Per Head Is an Archipelago of 100,000 People
The Seychelles blue economy underpins Africa's highest GDP per capita, with tuna, tourism and a pioneering blue bond behind a...
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Malawi Will Not Devalue, and the IMF Will Not Sign
The Malawi forex crisis has left fuel and medicine imports rationed, and a new IMF programme is stuck on the...
September 4, 2026
Lesotho Got Its Duty-Free Access Back. The Clock Is Still Running
Lesotho AGOA access is restored after a stopgap US tariff expired in July, and Congress has now voted to extend...
September 4, 2026
Eswatini’s Budget Rests on a Customs Cheque It Does Not Control
The Eswatini IMF Article IV mission left Mbabane with a deficit near 5.9 percent of GDP and public debt heading...
September 4, 2026
Africa Intelligence Brief — Friday, September 4, 2026
Africa Intelligence Brief for September 4: Kenya orders foreign traders to close by Monday, Zimbabwe gives Harare vendors until September...
September 4, 2026
Stolen South African Chrome Is Already Inside the World’s Stainless Steel
Illegal chrome mining South Africa costs about 600,000 tonnes a year, roughly 10% of output, and launders into the legal...
September 4, 2026
Pre-Dawn Fighting in Baidoa Leaves 71 Wounded and One Civilian Dead
Baidoa fighting between Somali government forces and militias wounded 71 people and killed one civilian, a hospital said, in a...
September 4, 2026
Ramaphosa Asks a Cape Town Court to Set Aside the Phala Phala Report
The Phala Phala report review reached the Western Cape High Court, where Ramaphosa's counsel argued the Section 89 panel applied...
September 4, 2026
Egypt and China Expand the Suez Zone and Widen Their Currency Swap
The Egypt China Suez agreement launches a third phase of the Cairo-Beijing industrial zone and widens a local-currency swap worth...
September 4, 2026
São Tomé Still Stages a Portuguese Play It Rewrote Five Centuries Ago
Tchiloli São Tomé takes a sixteenth-century Portuguese Charlemagne play and stages it outdoors, with masks, drums and a distinctly local...
September 4, 2026
Implats Earned US$1.9 Billion in a Year It Made US$48 Million Before
Implats FY2026 results show net income above R31bn against R761m a year earlier, with the revenue basket up 51% and...
September 4, 2026
A Boat That Left The Gambia Reached Gran Canaria After 27 Days
A Canary Islands migrant boat that left The Gambia 27 days earlier was found adrift with 44 survivors and five...
September 4, 2026
The Naira Hits a Two-Year High and Reserves Reach an 18-Year Peak
The naira two-year high of N1,315.67 came as external reserves reached US$53.99bn, an 18-year peak, with record July remittance inflows...
September 4, 2026
Ruto Orders Tata Chemicals Out of Kenya, Ending 115 Years of Mining at Lake Magadi
Tata Chemicals Kenya is being ordered out of Lake Magadi after 115 years, with Ruto saying a century of soda...
September 4, 2026
Nigeria Becomes the First OPEC Member to Join the IEA
Nigeria joins the IEA as an association country, the first OPEC member to do so, signing a Joint Work Programme...
September 4, 2026
DR Congo Will Move Its Israel Embassy to Jerusalem, Joining a Very Short List
The DR Congo embassy Jerusalem move follows a Tshisekedi-Netanyahu meeting. Only a handful of states have taken the step, three...
September 4, 2026
A UN Panel Puts Colombian Contractors at the Centre of Sudan’s War
A UN panel says Colombian fighters in Sudan operated drones and artillery for the RSF, with up to 2,000 recruited...
September 4, 2026
Uganda Names Its Crude ‘Pearl Sweet’ as First Oil Comes Into View
Uganda Pearl Sweet crude blends Tilenga and Kingfisher output at about 28-31 degrees API, heading to buyers through the EACOP...
September 4, 2026
One Citizenship Case Is Testing What South African Law Actually Says
The Chidimma Adetshina citizenship case returns to the Cape Town Regional Court on 27 February 2027, with her High Court...
September 4, 2026
Tunisia’s Top Court Confirms Heavy Sentences in Mass Opposition Trial
Tunisia's Court of Cassation on 3 September 2026 rejected all 46 appeals in the opposition conspiracy trial, confirming sentences of...
September 4, 2026