A Frozen US$140 Million Loan Stalls Cameroon’s First Bauxite Mine
Cameroon bauxite exports have stalled after AFG Bank suspended a US$140 million facility for the Minim Martap mine, with US$75...
August 26, 2026From Nigeria’s oil and Mozambique’s and Tanzania’s gas to South Africa’s grid crisis and the solar boom spreading across the continent, energy is where Africa’s growth and its great-power bargaining both play out. The Rio Times covers the oil and LNG deals, refineries, power projects and the transition finance reshaping how the continent fuels itself – with an eye on the capital flows and parallels linking Africa to Latin America’s own energy story. This hub collects our Africa energy coverage for investors and analysts.
Cameroon bauxite exports have stalled after AFG Bank suspended a US$140 million facility for the Minim Martap mine, with US$75...
August 26, 2026
Angola awarded a US$492.89 million Capanda dam contract without tender to a consortium including Gemcorp, which also provides the credit...
August 26, 2026
Mozambique spent just 37.37% of the budget funded by Rovuma gas revenues in the first half of 2026, and a...
August 26, 2026
Africa Intelligence Brief for August 25: Tanzania's vice president quit on cue, DR Congo's Ebola outbreak passed 100 days, and...
August 25, 2026
Foreign investors were 5.60% of Nigeria stock market trades in July 2026, the year's low, while the index rose 53.81%...
August 25, 2026
Niger raised its 2026 budget 2% to 2,980.54 billion CFA francs, about US$5.3 billion. Security is one of seven reasons...
August 25, 2026
The Angola fiscal deficit widened 326% to 3,943.8 billion kwanzas in the first half of 2026, about US$4.3 billion, even...
August 25, 2026
Congo and the Central African Republic signed two defence memoranda in Kinshasa on 21 August 2026, along a border measured...
August 25, 2026
Africa Intelligence Brief for August 24: Namibia approves a local-content policy it has not gazetted, Libya initials a text nobody...
August 24, 2026