
Africa’s Corporate Giants Buy Their Way to Scale as M&A Overtakes Organic Growth
African deal value rose 36 percent in the first nine months of 2024 as companies from South Africa, Kenya and...
August 12, 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.

African deal value rose 36 percent in the first nine months of 2024 as companies from South Africa, Kenya and...
August 12, 2026
Energo Tanzania is financing CNG vehicle conversions with Equity Bank and CRDB as Tanzania pushes drivers toward cheaper natural gas...
August 11, 2026
South Africa granted Southern Palladium a 30-year Bengwenyama mining right on 7 August 2026, clearing one of the country’s largest...
August 11, 2026
Africa Intelligence Brief for August 11: fourteen illegal chrome miners died near Marikana, the UN is auctioning its Somalia mission...
August 11, 2026
South African smelter tariff costs have risen over 900% since 2008, pushing a century-old ferrochrome plant toward closure and putting...
August 11, 2026
Nigeria’s regulator NERC dissolved the Kaduna Electric board on 10 August 2026 over N456.5 billion in market debt, appointing an...
August 11, 2026
Uganda sits at the heart of an East African oil battle, as Tanga and Lamu compete to ship its crude...
August 11, 2026
Donald Trump confirmed a memorandum to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in June 2026, but Iran, Oman and Washington still...
August 11, 2026
President Adama Barrow has launched a 360-kilometre, largely state-funded Gambia road project, alongside separate World Bank and Chinese-backed road
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