Ghana’s Central Bank Lost US$1.7 Billion Buying Gold, the IMF Says
The Ghana gold programme loss reached US$1.7 billion in 2025 on IMF figures. Five opposition MPs have filed a motion...
August 23, 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.
The Ghana gold programme loss reached US$1.7 billion in 2025 on IMF figures. Five opposition MPs have filed a motion...
August 23, 2026
A World Bank debarment has shut Webmasters Kenya and its founder out of Bank-financed contracts until June 2031 over a...
August 23, 2026
South Africa Zimbabwe trade was worth R81 billion in 2025, about US$4.6 billion, and Pretoria sells roughly eight rand of...
August 23, 2026
Kenya banks government debt holdings run to about KSh 2.2 trillion, or US$17 billion, which the World Bank puts at...
August 23, 2026
Morocco France arms exports hit 532.1 million euros in 2025, forty times the year before and almost the whole of...
August 23, 2026
Morocco votes 23 September 2026 for 395 parliament seats. Candidates, key parties, polls and what the result means — full...
August 22, 2026
The Julius Nyerere hydropower plant, 2,115 megawatts built by Egyptian contractors for Sh7.452 trillion, was inaugurated on 22 August 2026.
August 22, 2026
Nigeria stock market domestic investors drove 89.21% of trading to July 2026, even as US$4 billion came off the exchange...
August 22, 2026
Ghana foreign direct investment hit US$2.62 billion in 2025, but 95.4% of the balance-of-payments inflow was reinvested earnings from firms...
August 22, 2026