Zimbabwe’s Biggest Mobile Operator Is Building Its Way Off the National Grid
Econet solar plans include a 100 MW solar and battery scheme in Harare, after AI analysis found power cuts behind...
September 8, 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.
Econet solar plans include a 100 MW solar and battery scheme in Harare, after AI analysis found power cuts behind...
September 8, 2026
South Africa GDP fell 0.2% in the second quarter of 2026, ending a six-quarter run of growth, as mining, trade...
September 8, 2026
The South Sudan budget for 2026-27 totals SSP 11.34trn, with oil supplying 79% of revenue and SSP 183bn set aside...
September 8, 2026
Gold made up about 76% of Uganda's export earnings in 2025 after a record US$5.8bn year. Most of the metal...
September 8, 2026
James Mworia Centum ties end after 18 years as he takes over Kenya's new National Infrastructure Fund, with an insider...
September 8, 2026
Liberia fiscal space could widen by 3.9% to 5.3% of GDP a year by 2030 with tax and spending reform,...
September 8, 2026
Guinea's Morebaya port has begun progressive commissioning, SimFer says, the last piece of the Simandou iron ore export system.
September 8, 2026
Ghana bond market turnover fell 68% week on week to GH¢2.12bn, as investors moved cash into the new four-year government...
September 8, 2026
An Egypt MSME securitisation of EGP 1.383bn has closed, the first tranche of a three-year EGP 5bn programme arranged by...
September 8, 2026