Diageo Collects a Record EABL Dividend While Its Exit Stays Frozen
The EABL dividend hands Diageo Sh4.47 billion (US$34.5 million) after a record year, while a Kenyan court order keeps its...
August 7, 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 EABL dividend hands Diageo Sh4.47 billion (US$34.5 million) after a record year, while a Kenyan court order keeps its...
August 7, 2026
Africa Intelligence Brief August 6 — Nigeria records its largest single-day hostage rescue while South Africa's central bank warns of...
August 6, 2026
The rand traded near R16.33 to the dollar on 6 August 2026 as Brent slipped below US$80 and gold held...
August 6, 2026
A Dakar court has jailed three pro-PASTEF commentators for offending President Bassirou Diomaye Faye in a TikTok video. Their lawyers...
August 6, 2026
Nigeria's NAICOM recapitalisation has licensed 43 insurers that met capital floors of up to ₦35bn (about US$26m), leaving up to...
August 6, 2026
Bank of America expects South African dealmaking to hold up, and has promoted its South Africa investment banking head to...
August 6, 2026
A Saudi-led consortium has completed its $55 billion leveraged buyout of Electronic Arts, taking the FIFA and Madden publisher private...
August 6, 2026
Tanzania said it would sign the legal framework for its US$42 billion LNG project before June 2026. The deadline passed...
August 6, 2026
Nigeria’s SEC has approved tokenized equities trading on the NASD OTC Securities Exchange, with the first public digital securities offering...
August 6, 2026