Ecobank Shrinks Its Board and Drops the Term Limit for Directors
The Ecobank ETI board falls from 15 seats to 12, and the nine-year cap on non-executive directors is gone. Shareholders...
August 20, 2026Section
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Payment Failures at Ghana’s Ports Are Driving Up Import Costs
Ghana port payment failures are stranding containers and adding demurrage charges. Importers say the state platform and its bank links...
August 20, 2026
Liberia Will Take 1,200 Deportees from the US, Starting Today
Liberia agreed to accept up to 1,200 foreign deportees from the United States. The first group of 20 is due...
August 20, 2026
Museveni Says Uganda Is Middle-Income, the World Bank Says Not Yet
Uganda middle-income status is disputed. The World Bank's July 2026 classification still lists Uganda as low income, about US$56 short...
August 20, 2026
A Nigerian Startup Lets You Cash Out Crypto Inside WhatsApp
MYPADI AI has built a WhatsApp crypto off-ramp for Nigeria, turning stablecoins into naira inside a chat. Nigeria is a...
August 20, 2026
Africa’s Nuclear Plans Lack the People to Run Them, Ghana Warns
A nuclear workforce shortage threatens Africa's reactor plans, Ghana's atomic agency says. Building a plant takes a decade; training staff...
August 20, 2026
Ghana’s Cedi Rallied 7% in a Week. Street Rates Barely Moved
The Ghana cedi gained about 7 percent against the dollar in a week on the interbank market. The rate people...
August 20, 2026
Only a Fifth of Absa Kenya Shareholders Took the US$239m Offer
Absa Bank Kenya minority holders took up barely a fifth of a US$239 million tender offer. The parent had wanted...
August 20, 2026
US Tariffs Cut South African Car Exports by 83% in One Year
South African vehicle exports to the US fell 83 percent after a 25 percent tariff landed. AGOA duty-free access no...
August 20, 2026
Why Senegalese Pilgrims Travel to a Forest Clearing in Gabon
The Cheikh Amadou Bamba exile site in Gabon draws Senegalese pilgrims each year. It marks a colonial deportation that backfired...
August 20, 2026
Tanzania and Congo Bet on One Rail Route to Move Their Minerals
The Central Corridor is the rail and road route from Dar es Salaam to the Congolese copper belt. Both governments...
August 20, 2026
Sudan Says It Is Ready to Buy Kenyan Tea Again
Sudan's ambassador says the Sudan tea market is ready to reopen to Kenya. No decree has been published, and 207...
August 20, 2026
Morgan Stanley Bets Bigger on Morocco as Factory Exports Jump
Morgan Stanley Morocco exposure is rising as the country's factory exports climb. Cars and aerospace now outsell phosphates, its traditional...
August 20, 2026
Central Africa Licences Its First Credit Rating Agency
The CEMAC credit rating licence went to Geneva Investment Corporation on 7 August. It is the first ever granted in...
August 20, 2026
South Africa’s Unemployment Rate Climbs to 33.6% in the Second Quarter
South Africa unemployment rose to 33.6 percent in the second quarter, up 0.9 points. On the wider measure that counts...
August 20, 2026
Meta Deletes 756,000 Australian Teen Accounts Before a New Ban
Meta removed 756,000 Australian teen accounts from Instagram and Facebook before an under-16 ban starts. Here is what that number...
August 20, 2026
Mexico’s Cruz Azul Cement Cooperative Bets US$381 Million on an Idle Plant
Mexico's Cruz Azul cement cooperative will spend 6.5 billion pesos, about US$381 million, restarting its idle Tula plant in Hidalgo...
August 19, 2026
Boric and Matthei Reject Chile’s Kast Security Reform
Boric and Matthei both reject the Kast security reform in Chile, warning about 240-day emergency powers. Plus a Trinidad and...
August 19, 2026
Escondida Wage Talks Open at the World’s Biggest Copper Mine in Chile
Escondida wage talks opened at the world's biggest copper mine in Chile, while storms forced Lundin Mining to cut its...
August 19, 2026
Argentina Ships First Offshore Pipes for Vaca Muerta Oil Pipeline
First subsea pipes for Argentina's Vaca Muerta oil pipeline have sailed to Punta Colorada, while YPF revives shale drilling in...
August 19, 2026