Africa Intelligence Brief for Friday, April 24, 2026
Africa intelligence brief: Dangote commits to 650K BPD East Africa refinery in Tanzania. AFC warns of 86M tonne fuel shortfall...
April 24, 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.
Africa intelligence brief: Dangote commits to 650K BPD East Africa refinery in Tanzania. AFC warns of 86M tonne fuel shortfall...
April 24, 2026
Eurozone services PMI hit 47.4 as composite fell to 48.6—contraction territory. US manufacturing surged to 54.0. Key global economy data...
April 24, 2026
Africa brief: Durban anti-immigrant violence forces foreign businesses to close. Nigeria coup trial reveals Villa infiltration. TPLF Tigray crisis deepens.
April 23, 2026
Global economy briefing: S&P hits 7,138 on ceasefire extension, UK CPI surges to 3.3%, Korea GDP beats at 3.6%, EU...
April 23, 2026
Africa intelligence brief: TPLF restores Tigray parliament, threatening 600,000-death war's peace deal. Zimbabwe's new ZiG banknotes rejected as nurses strike....
April 22, 2026
Global economy briefing: ZEW collapses to -17.2, US retail sales beat at 1.7%, Trump extends ceasefire. Copom in 7 days....
April 22, 2026
Africa Intelligence Brief April 21: Kenya Airways-South African Airways suspended, Malema arrest order, Zimbabwe crisis, regional diplomatic moves.
April 21, 2026
WTI hit $89.61 and Brent $95.48 after Iran shut the Strait again and the US Navy seized a cargo ship....
April 21, 2026
Africa Pulse: Nigeria airline shutdown, DRC-M23 Montreux progress, Libya unified budget, Ethiopia-Liberia AI deal, Malawi opposition arrest.
April 20, 2026