
BOAD Raises US$153 Million in Tokyo Without a Guarantee
The BOAD Samurai bond raised about US$153 million in two yen tranches, the first unguaranteed public Samurai issue by a...
July 30, 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.

The BOAD Samurai bond raised about US$153 million in two yen tranches, the first unguaranteed public Samurai issue by a...
July 30, 2026
The Atlantic Africa Gas Pipeline has opened financing talks with US EXIM and the World Bank, a week after ECOWAS...
July 30, 2026
Angola signed a US$21 million deal for feasibility studies of a 1,300-km West-East highway linking Lobito port toward the DRC...
July 30, 2026
The Mozambique card payment limit caps overseas card spending at 6 million meticais (US$94,000) a year per holder as the...
July 30, 2026
Ethiopia has built seven textile industrial parks, with nine more planned, as Chinese firms finance and operate most of them...
July 30, 2026
The Ghana debt distress upgrade: the IMF moved the country to moderate risk and released a final US$371 million, closing...
July 30, 2026
The Senegal FDI collapse saw inflows sink to US$337 million in 2025, a near-90% drop, as a hidden-debt scandal and...
July 30, 2026
The Dangote philanthropy pledge commits a third of a US$35.1 billion fortune to his foundation, about US$11.7 billion, after four...
July 30, 2026
The Afreximbank bond raised US$1.5 billion across two tranches, its largest ever, with orders peaking at US$3.8 billion six months...
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