Algeria Tells Foreign Carmakers to Buy Local Plastic Parts From 2027
Algeria has reopened a car-parts plant seized from a jailed tycoon, and carmakers must stop importing plastic parts it can...
September 27, 2026Topic
Manufacturing
Chinese Shareholders Battle for Control of Nigerian Ceramics Company
Chinese owners of a combined 65 percent of Crown Ceramics Nigeria Limited say a minority shareholder has blocked them from...
September 20, 2026
Mahama Ties Ghana Vehicle Tax Relief to Local Content
Mahama told assemblers at Tema on 15 September they will need a minimum local content share to qualify for VAT...
September 16, 2026
Uganda Digital Tax Stamps Now Cover 1,680 Firms
The Uganda Revenue Authority says more than 1,680 manufacturers and importers are registered on its digital tax stamps system.
September 16, 2026
Angola’s Benguela Province Uses a 415-Company Trade Fair to Chase Foreign Investment
Benguela's 15th international fair opened on 9 September 2026 with 415 companies, aiming to turn the province's potential into investment.
September 13, 2026
South Africa’s Economy Shrank, and Mining Did Most of the Damage
South Africa GDP fell 0.2% in the second quarter of 2026, ending a six-quarter run of growth, as mining, trade...
September 8, 2026
Nigeria Sent Its Governors to Benin to Copy a Cotton Park
The Benin cotton industrial zone at Glo-Djigbe turns raw fibre into garments, and Nigeria has sent governors to study a...
September 4, 2026
Egypt’s Canal Zone Pulled In US$7 Billion in a Year, Most of It Looking East
The Suez Canal Economic Zone attracted US$7 billion across 117 projects in a year, with revenue up 37% and Chinese...
September 1, 2026
Emzor Borrows at 19% to Finish Its Sagamu Drug-Ingredient Plant
The Emzor API plant at Sagamu is being finished with a N26.7bn bond at a 19% coupon, billed as sub-Saharan...
September 1, 2026