Nigeria Approved a US$45 Million Rail Link to Its Lagos Ports. Almost Nobody Noticed
Nigeria ports and rail links are the missing piece around the Dangote refinery. A US$45.3 million line to four Lagos...
August 20, 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.
Nigeria ports and rail links are the missing piece around the Dangote refinery. A US$45.3 million line to four Lagos...
August 20, 2026
Aradel petrol production at the Ogbele refinery is now promised for 2027. The same unit was called mechanically complete in...
August 20, 2026
Short selling on the EGX has a new rulebook: Egypt's regulator set 150% cover, a 40% free-float ceiling and an...
August 20, 2026
A.P. Moller Capital has agreed to buy control of Globex Investissement, a Moroccan logistics group, in a deal that still...
August 20, 2026
Republic of the Congo oil contracts get a single US$90-a-barrel windfall trigger for their full term, under four bills approved...
August 20, 2026
Nigeria cement prices rose from about US$7 a bag in January to as much as US$11 by July. The FCCPC...
August 20, 2026
The Ethiopia birr fell to a record low near 162 per dollar, and the central bank called a US$500m special...
August 20, 2026
The KCB sustainability bond programme is worth up to KSh300 billion over five years, with a first tranche of up...
August 20, 2026
NAICOM revoked the Universal Insurance licence after the company missed Nigeria's new minimum capital requirement. A liquidator was appointed the...
August 20, 2026