France and Morocco Cement Strategic Partnership Despite Pegasus Spyware Scandal
France and Morocco signed 14 cooperation agreements and are drafting an unprecedented friendship treaty, prioritising €10 billion in economic ties...
July 17, 2026For investors, founders and expatriates, Africa is the world’s youngest and fastest-urbanising market – full of opportunity and friction in equal measure. The Rio Times covers doing business across the continent: company setup, startups and venture capital, visas and residency, the cost of living and the practicalities of building or relocating – the same expat-and-investor lens that defines our Latin America coverage. This hub gathers our guidance for doing business and living in Africa.
France and Morocco signed 14 cooperation agreements and are drafting an unprecedented friendship treaty, prioritising €10 billion in economic ties...
July 17, 2026
Africa Intelligence Brief July 17 — Africa reels from twin tragedies in Uganda and Algeria while Nigeria repatriates citizens and...
July 17, 2026
France and Morocco prepare a first-of-its-kind friendship treaty, Paris's first with a non-European nation, backed by a €10B deal package...
July 16, 2026
France pulls diplomats from Burkina Faso after June 26 rupture, ordering all staff out by July 6. The split follows...
July 16, 2026
Middle East conflict puts over US$100 billion in Gulf FDI and vital remittances to Comoros, Gambia, Lesotho, and Liberia at...
July 15, 2026
Africa Intelligence Brief July 14 — From Nigeria's Benue massacre to Sudan's El Obeid horror and South African xenophobic marches,...
July 14, 2026
Electrochem Ghana, Daniel McKorley's salt venture, was sealed by the GRA over a GH¢8.6m ($560,000) tax debt and has seven...
July 13, 2026
Kenya capital markets regulator CMA licensed 13 firms and schemes and 26 sub-funds, adding a Shariah-compliant REIT manager and payroll-based...
July 9, 2026
South Africa xenophobia turned a vigilante deadline into an exodus: 13,000 sent home in a fortnight, several dead, and five...
July 9, 2026