Kenya’s Pension Assets Hit a Record — but the State Leans Harder on Them
Kenya’s pension assets reached about KSh2.81 trillion (US$21.8 billion) in 2025, up 24.6% — but more than half now sits...
August 11, 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.
Kenya’s pension assets reached about KSh2.81 trillion (US$21.8 billion) in 2025, up 24.6% — but more than half now sits...
August 11, 2026
Kenya’s regulator has approved the first ETF tracking the NSE Banking Sector Index, the market-cap-weighted gauge of 11 listed banks...
August 11, 2026
Standard Bank is the first African bank to access China’s CIPS payment system and, since June 2026, an authorised yuan...
August 11, 2026
South Africa granted Southern Palladium a 30-year Bengwenyama mining right on 7 August 2026, clearing one of the country’s largest...
August 11, 2026
Africa Intelligence Brief for August 11: fourteen illegal chrome miners died near Marikana, the UN is auctioning its Somalia mission...
August 11, 2026
South Africa's FSCA is probing a market manipulation tactic that uses tiny share trades to move prices and profit from...
August 11, 2026
Nigeria’s regulator NERC dissolved the Kaduna Electric board on 10 August 2026 over N456.5 billion in market debt, appointing an...
August 11, 2026
President Adama Barrow has launched a 360-kilometre, largely state-funded Gambia road project, alongside separate World Bank and Chinese-backed road
August 11, 2026
Kenya’s nuclear plan — a Sh500 billion plant in Siaya County — draws scrutiny over debt risk, site choice and...
August 11, 2026