MTN Writes Down Iran Again as Its Trapped Stake Keeps Costing
The MTN Iran impairment of R2.13 a share will cut statutory earnings per share by 20% to 30%, even as...
August 15, 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 MTN Iran impairment of R2.13 a share will cut statutory earnings per share by 20% to 30%, even as...
August 15, 2026
The Trans-Kalahari Railway feasibility study is complete, but Botswana's minister says the US$16 billion coal line cannot pay for itself...
August 15, 2026
Kwita Izina 2026 will name 22 mountain gorilla infants on 4 September at Kinigi, taking Rwanda's total to 460, in...
August 15, 2026
Five drone strikes hit Libya's Zawiya refinery between 9 and 11 August, collapsing a petrol tank and prompting a force...
August 15, 2026
Ghana illegal mining has affected about 8,900 hectares of forest reserve, and Cabinet has approved cutting large-scale mining leases from...
August 15, 2026
A West Africa fuel benchmark would end the region's reliance on European price references, Nigeria's regulator argued in Abuja. Nothing...
August 15, 2026
Africa Intelligence Brief for August 14: Zambia's electoral commission suspended vote counting nationwide over violence and stolen ballots, while the
August 14, 2026
Gabon dollar bonds have returned 19.5% in 2026 on an unpublished IMF-backed debt audit, while Senegal's spread widened to 1,541...
August 14, 2026
Suez Canal revenue rose 13% to US$1.26 billion in the second quarter of 2026, driven by tanker traffic rerouted by...
August 14, 2026