Africa Intelligence Brief — Tuesday, August 25, 2026
Africa Intelligence Brief for August 25: Tanzania's vice president quit on cue, DR Congo's Ebola outbreak passed 100 days, and...
August 25, 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 for August 25: Tanzania's vice president quit on cue, DR Congo's Ebola outbreak passed 100 days, and...
August 25, 2026
Morocco restarts subsidised soft wheat imports on 16 September 2026, after a harvest that beat last year but still left...
August 25, 2026
Foreign investors were 5.60% of Nigeria stock market trades in July 2026, the year's low, while the index rose 53.81%...
August 25, 2026
Niger raised its 2026 budget 2% to 2,980.54 billion CFA francs, about US$5.3 billion. Security is one of seven reasons...
August 25, 2026
Tunisia cash in circulation crossed 30.040 billion dinars on 21 August 2026, larger than the central bank's net foreign assets...
August 25, 2026
At least 32 people died when the Dar-es-Salam dump collapsed in Conakry on 23 August 2026, three days after ministers...
August 25, 2026
The Mozambique card payment limit fell from six million to three million meticais a year on 28 July 2026, and...
August 25, 2026
The Angola fiscal deficit widened 326% to 3,943.8 billion kwanzas in the first half of 2026, about US$4.3 billion, even...
August 25, 2026
Zijin Gold took 9.2% of Allied Gold for US$295 million after its US$4bn takeover lapsed, tying it to Kurmuk, a...
August 25, 2026