Why Dangote Is Offering East Africa a Stake in His Next Refinery
Dangote's planned 700,000-barrel-a-day Lamu refinery in Kenya comes with an unusual offer: East African governments can own 30% of it....
August 30, 2026Section
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Africa Intelligence Brief — Saturday, August 29, 2026
Africa Intelligence Brief for August 29: AU ministers draft prevention decisions in Luanda, Congo’s outbreak reaches 5,794 confirmed cases, and...
August 29, 2026
A New Fund Wants Pension Money to Build Nigeria’s Infrastructure
A new Nigeria infrastructure fund from Africa Finance Corporation seeks domestic pension money, backed by a US$253 million Green Climate...
August 29, 2026
Angola’s Economy Grew 8.74% in Q2, With Diamonds Out Front
Angola GDP growth reached 8.74% year on year in the second quarter of 2026, with the non-oil economy up 9.24%...
August 29, 2026
Eskom’s Best Grid Year in Six Comes With a US$187 Million Caveat
Eskom diesel spending fell 82.38% to R1.04 billion this financial year, even as the utility conceded R3 billion in payments...
August 29, 2026
Ceuta Protesters Confront Police as Migrant Standoff Deepens
Ceuta migrant protests turned violent as police cleared two beaches and demonstrators blocked Red Cross aid, a month after a...
August 29, 2026
Salif Keïta Cancels South African Shows Over Xenophobic Violence
Salif Keïta South Africa performances are cancelled, including a Macufe date on 12 September, over xenophobic violence against African migrants.
August 29, 2026
Uganda’s Boy King Is Dead at 34, and Tooro Has No Named Heir
King Oyo of Tooro, crowned in Uganda at the age of three and once the world's youngest monarch, has died...
August 29, 2026
Chad Says a Sudanese Air Strike Killed 12 at a Border Fuel Market
A Sudanese air strike in Chad killed at least 12 at a border fuel market, officials say, as Washington condemned...
August 29, 2026
Tunisia’s Saied Calls the Power Cuts Sabotage and Names No One
Tunisia power cuts and water outages were deliberately planned sabotage, President Kais Saied said, without naming a suspect, agency or...
August 29, 2026
Egypt and Russia Talk Up a Reactor and an Unopened Suez Zone
Egypt Russia relations were reviewed in a ministers call covering the El-Dabaa nuclear plant and a Suez industrial zone still...
August 29, 2026
Nigeria’s Central Bank Cut a Rate Its Market Was Pushing Higher
Nigeria treasury bills cleared at 17.15 percent for one year, a 44 basis point cut, after bids of N3.63 trillion...
August 29, 2026
Ghana Orders Gold Refined at Home, With No Accredited Refinery
Ghana gold refining becomes compulsory for aggregators from 1 September, though none of the licensed plants holds London Good Delivery...
August 29, 2026
Morocco Is Becoming the West’s Training Ground for African Armies
Morocco NATO cooperation is being extended to training African militaries, a report says, while a US centre at Tan-Tan is...
August 29, 2026
London-Listed Aminex Threatens Arbitration Over Tanzanian Gas
Tanzania Ntorya gas development faces a dispute notice from Ndovu Resources against operator ARA Petroleum, months before a December first-gas...
August 29, 2026
Kinshasa and Luanda Push Shared Oil Zone and Fuel Deal
The Congo Angola oil zone and a Sonangol fuel supply arrangement were pushed forward when the two presidents met in...
August 29, 2026
Eight Million Kilos of Kenyan Tea Are Stuck in Mombasa
Kenya tea Iran shipments fell 40.7 percent in the first quarter and about 8 million kilos now sit in Mombasa,...
August 29, 2026
Government Denies Bulawayo Millers Have Stopped Over Maize
A Zimbabwe maize shortage has closed milling at Blue Ribbon and 23 smaller millers in Bulawayo, according to a circular...
August 29, 2026
Two Mexicans, Three Zimbabweans in Court Over Limpopo Meth Lab
A Limpopo meth lab raid near the Zimbabwean border led to five arrests, with drugs and equipment valued by prosecutors...
August 29, 2026
Woodside Drops Its Climate Target and Leans Harder on Senegal
Woodside Sangomar is now central to the company plan after it scrapped a Scope 3 emissions target and US$5 billion...
August 29, 2026