African Startup Funding Rebounds as Debt Overtakes Equity
African startup funding topped about $1.3 billion by early June 2026, led by fintech, as debt overtakes equity and North...
June 23, 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 startup funding topped about $1.3 billion by early June 2026, led by fintech, as debt overtakes equity and North...
June 23, 2026
TotalEnergies has restarted its roughly $20 billion Mozambique LNG project four years after an insurgency halted it, with first gas...
June 22, 2026
African films at Tribeca 2026 swept top prizes, from a Cameroonian documentary to Kenyan and Nigerian co-productions, marking the continent's...
June 22, 2026
Nigeria's external reserves hit a 17-year high of $51.04 billion on June 18, 2026, up 35% in a year, yet...
June 22, 2026
A music-industry bridge is forming between Brazil and Angola, as distributors and platforms wire Portuguese-speaking Africa into the same streaming...
June 22, 2026
Africa Intelligence Brief for Monday: from Absa pushing capital into Kenya and Ghana refusing US money to protect its citizens'...
June 22, 2026
Gold above $4,500/oz drives Ghana's fastest expansion in years, but a stronger cedi shrinks cocoa export revenues, squeezing the farmers...
June 22, 2026
Africa's trade topped $1.5 trillion in 2025 and its economy outgrew the world's, a new African trade report from Afreximbank...
June 22, 2026
Aliko Dangote claims his Lagos refinery alone is worth over US$40 billion, far above Forbes' US$38bn fortune estimate. See why...
June 22, 2026