Ghana Booked US$1.91 Billion of Investment. Only US$88 Million Was New
Ghana foreign direct investment hit US$2.62 billion in 2025, but 95.4% of the balance-of-payments inflow was reinvested earnings from firms...
August 22, 2026Topic
Manufacturing
South Africa Invites Chinese Tyre Companies to Build US$123 Million Plant
Eastern Cape leaders are courting Chinese tyre companies for a US$123 million plant at Coega, a year after Goodyear shut...
August 19, 2026
Chinese Car Exports Top One Million a Month as Home Sales Slide
Chinese car exports passed one million units in a single month for the first time in July 2026, while home...
August 17, 2026
Inside the US$5 Billion Plan to Keep Africa’s Cotton Jobs in Africa
A US$5 billion cotton industrialisation plan backed by the WTO aims to process 25% of Africa's cotton locally and create...
August 15, 2026
South African Clothing Factories Lose Workers As Migrant Exodus Hits Newcastle
South African clothing factories in Newcastle lost 12 to 19 percent of their workforce after anti-immigrant protests, with the textile...
August 9, 2026
Brazil’s BNDES Bank Finances Embraer Jet Export to Canada
Brazil's BNDES has committed to finance up to 19 Embraer E195-E2 jets for Canada's Porter Airlines, with deliveries running through...
August 3, 2026
Ethiopia Copies China’s Textile Park Model to Chase Export Jobs
Ethiopia has built seven textile industrial parks, with nine more planned, as Chinese firms finance and operate most of them...
July 30, 2026
Strike at BAIC’s Coega plant will set a precedent, says union
The BAIC Coega strike has passed its second month, with 350 workers idle since 15 June over the gap between...
July 29, 2026
Northeast Brazil Wins New Beef Plants and Shoe Factories
Northeast Brazil secures R$175.5M in new factories: a 700-cattle/day beef plant in Pernambuco and footwear units in Ceará creating 2,900...
July 28, 2026