Africa Intelligence Brief — Monday, June 1, 2026
Ethiopians voted today in parliamentary and regional elections with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's Prosperity Party projected for a landslide; the...
June 1, 2026Africa’s capital markets are deepening fast – from the Johannesburg, Nairobi and Lagos exchanges to a fintech boom banking hundreds of millions of people for the first time. The Rio Times follows the currencies (the rand, naira, cedi and shilling), the banks and IPOs, sovereign debt and the foreign capital arriving on increasingly local terms. We cover it through the same investor lens we bring to Latin America, where the emerging-market playbook is strikingly similar. This hub gathers our Africa markets and investment coverage.
Ethiopians voted today in parliamentary and regional elections with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's Prosperity Party projected for a landslide; the...
June 1, 2026
Africa Pulse for Friday: Tinubu marks his third anniversary defending subsidy and FX reforms, South Africa publishes its first post-hike...
May 29, 2026
Africa finance brief: the SARB hikes the repo rate 25bp to 7% on intensifying inflation risks, the AfDB's final day...
May 28, 2026
Global financial wealth rose 10.7% to a record US$333 trillion in 2025, according to Boston Consulting Group. That was the...
May 27, 2026
Africa finance brief: Johannesburg approves R3.8bn KfW loan, Dangote $40bn multi-exchange IPO, AfDB Governors Dialogue Brazzaville, JNIM blockade Eid al-Adha...
May 27, 2026
Africa intelligence brief covers HRW's UAE-RSF Colombia mercenary report, the DRC Ebola World Cup isolation order, Senegal's Sonko as speaker,...
May 26, 2026
Africa intelligence brief covers Benin's Wadagni inauguration, the DRC Ebola emergency, South Africa platinum, Ghana's IMF stance, Eswatini deportee deal.
May 25, 2026
The Dow set a record close at 50,285.66 even as the Philly Fed manufacturing index collapsed to -0.4 (consensus 17.6)...
May 22, 2026
Africa intelligence brief covers the ICC's first Libya war-crimes hearing, Nigeria's West African oil pivot, South Africa retail, Ethiopia's election,...
May 21, 2026