Angola Bans Single-Use Plastics With Fines of Up to US$33,000
Angola's single-use plastics ban took effect on 22 September 2026, twelve months after the decree, with company fines reaching about...
September 22, 2026Section
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Gabon’s 2027 Budget Lifts Debt Interest Costs by Almost 37 Percent
Gabon debt interest charges are set to rise 36.9 percent in 2027, to about US$1.18 billion, under the draft budget...
September 22, 2026
Burkina Faso Asks Its Banks to Help Fund a US$63 Billion Growth Plan
Plan RELANCE, Burkina Faso's US$63 billion development plan, drew bank and microfinance chiefs to a funding meeting on 22 September...
September 22, 2026
Ivory Coast Freezes Small-Scale Mine Permits as State Bank Meets Miners
BNI mining risk filled a full day in Abidjan on 22 September 2026, five days after Côte d'Ivoire froze new...
September 22, 2026
Nigeria Keeps Electricity Tariffs Frozen at a US$1.45 Billion Cost
Nigeria tariff freeze stays in place as Abuja rules out a price rise, with the 2025 power subsidy put at...
September 22, 2026
Nigeria Orders Every Filling Station to Recalibrate Its Fuel Pumps
Nigeria's NMDPRA warns petrol stations that persistent under-dispensing can lead to licence revocation, and orders nationwide calibration of fuel pumps.
September 22, 2026
Libya Loses 200,000 Barrels a Day After an Armed Group Shuts a Valve
Sharara field shutdown cuts output at Libya's biggest field by 200,000 barrels a day after an armed group closed a...
September 22, 2026
Djibouti Frees and Deports a South African Journalist After Four Days
Micah Reddy was released from Djibouti custody on 22 September 2026 and deported home to South Africa after four days,...
September 22, 2026
Kenya Cooking Gas Prices Set to Rise After Red Sea Port Attacks
Kenya cooking gas prices are set to rise in October after attacks on a Saudi Red Sea port squeezed supply,...
September 22, 2026