Africa Clean Cooking Pledges Reach $3.1 Billion with $900M New
$900M in fresh clean cooking commitments pushes Africa’s total pledged funding past $3.1B since 2024, with $740M already deployed across...
July 19, 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.
$900M in fresh clean cooking commitments pushes Africa’s total pledged funding past $3.1B since 2024, with $740M already deployed across...
July 19, 2026
Africa private capital tripled to a record $16.1 billion in Q1 2026, driven by MTN’s $6.2B IHS Nigeria buy and...
July 19, 2026
Cameroon expects annual mining revenue to top $1.75B, overtaking oil as three iron ore projects absorb $3.1B by 2030. New...
July 19, 2026
Angola interest rate cut slashes benchmark 125 basis points to 15.75% as June 2026 inflation hits 11-year low of 10.11%....
July 19, 2026
Africa Intelligence Brief July 18 — UN sanctions hit Congo armed groups, Uganda mourns 20 schoolchildren, Senegal sees a political...
July 18, 2026
South Africa’s Cue banks $5M Series A for its AI customer-service platform handling 500M+ conversations yearly. Funds target voice AI,...
July 18, 2026
A €60 million EIB cocoa dairy facility targets Nigeria's processing sector, backing a ban on raw bean exports. 70% of...
July 18, 2026
The 6th Cyber Africa Forum lands in Cotonou Nov 16–17, 2026, drawing 1,500+ experts to tackle AI sovereignty and a...
July 17, 2026
Nigeria gazetted an $11.50-per-barrel Bonga Southwest tax credit for Shell, unlocking a potential $20B investment on 820M barrels of reserves....
July 17, 2026