Zimbabwe Lithium Export Earnings Jump 229.8% to US$782 Million
Zimbabwe lithium exports earned US$782.2 million in H1 2026, up 229.8%, as new processing plants and a price recovery lift...
August 5, 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.
Zimbabwe lithium exports earned US$782.2 million in H1 2026, up 229.8%, as new processing plants and a price recovery lift...
August 5, 2026
Project Gazelle 2 refinances Nigeria's US$3.3bn oil-backed facility, adds US$3bn in liquidity and cuts pledged crude by 12.5% to 78,750...
August 5, 2026
South Africa will list a US$500 million Credit Guarantee Vehicle in July 2026 to derisk infrastructure and mobilise about US$10...
August 4, 2026
Nigeria has ordered all federal ministries, departments and agencies to appoint Data Protection Officers, with fines and enforcement now in...
August 4, 2026
President John Dramani Mahama proposed expanding the African Continental Free Trade Area to include the Caribbean during a state visit...
August 4, 2026
Africa Intelligence Brief, August 4, 2026: record Ebola outbreak in DR Congo, El-Obeid under RSF siege, Zambia votes 13 August,...
August 4, 2026
Angola's fuel import bill rose 47.8% to about US$1.7 billion in the first half of 2026, outpacing what the state...
August 4, 2026
Ethiopian state-owned enterprises paid 42% of large-taxpayer revenue in FY2025/26, from a total of about US$3.2 billion, ministry figures show.
August 4, 2026
The Nairobi Securities Exchange has passed Sh4 trillion, about US$31 billion, for the first time, driven by domestic institutional money.
August 4, 2026