Ecobank Shrinks Its Board and Drops the Term Limit for Directors
The Ecobank ETI board falls from 15 seats to 12, and the nine-year cap on non-executive directors is gone. Shareholders...
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.
The Ecobank ETI board falls from 15 seats to 12, and the nine-year cap on non-executive directors is gone. Shareholders...
August 20, 2026
Ghana port payment failures are stranding containers and adding demurrage charges. Importers say the state platform and its bank links...
August 20, 2026
Uganda middle-income status is disputed. The World Bank's July 2026 classification still lists Uganda as low income, about US$56 short...
August 20, 2026
MYPADI AI has built a WhatsApp crypto off-ramp for Nigeria, turning stablecoins into naira inside a chat. Nigeria is a...
August 20, 2026
The Ghana cedi gained about 7 percent against the dollar in a week on the interbank market. The rate people...
August 20, 2026
Absa Bank Kenya minority holders took up barely a fifth of a US$239 million tender offer. The parent had wanted...
August 20, 2026
South African vehicle exports to the US fell 83 percent after a 25 percent tariff landed. AGOA duty-free access no...
August 20, 2026
The Central Corridor is the rail and road route from Dar es Salaam to the Congolese copper belt. Both governments...
August 20, 2026
Sudan's ambassador says the Sudan tea market is ready to reopen to Kenya. No decree has been published, and 207...
August 20, 2026